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What’s your go-to comfort food? I have a dear friend who describes herself as a “foodie.” She loves to try new dishes without necessarily knowing exactly what the dish is comprised of. That’s not to say she will eat just anything, but if she trusts the person offering the food, she will try it. I…
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Repair and reparations are derived from the same Latin word meaning “restore.” With the current movement of offering reparations to the descendants of slaves, I have been thinking a lot about how reparations themselves can somehow repair the damage done by the harmful policies that created all wrongs done to all people of color. I…
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How do you practice self-care? The art of self care is a many layered promise that the self comes first. Just as the self has many layers. From the superficial outer layer all the way down to the core, self care must be at the top of thw list of needs fulfilled. Taking care is…
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How do you want to retire? I have been thinking a lot about retirement. As a US citizen, I receive regular notifications about my Social Security account. It advises me on what I can expect to receive as a retiree. The amount changes with age. It also tells me at which age would be the…
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What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily? I admit to being a conspicuous consumer in the 80’s. It was the decade very much on the cusp of the technology explosion and just past the age of a buying things that were meant to last. Many of the things built during the…
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My life path has gone through many phases. It began in darkness with small flickers of light that kept me moving forward. The proverbial carrot on a stick. The trick was to figure out how to move toward the light without and not extinguish the flame with my forward momentum. In other words, I had…
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What are you good at? I am like most people and do a few things well. You know, “a Jill of all trades, master of none.” That is not really accurate but the things I have mastered are singularly specific. And that’s not the question. My upbringing was non traditional in some ways and very…
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What does “having it all” mean to you? Is it attainable? I have often thought about what “having it all” means. I look at the 1%ers and I don’t think they are living a life any better than mine. Certainly their material world looks very different from mine. But as I have all that I…
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Who would you like to talk to soon? Who would Ilike to talk to soon? Soon is a relative term, so I am answering with who I would like to talk to in general. Eventually seems a long longer than soon while sometime is far too vague. So I have taken out all reference to…
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What personal belongings do you hold most dear? Obviously, pictures would be among most treasured belongings. But only because of who is in the picture. So in that sense, it’s not really the picture I treasure, but the object in the picture and how that object made me feel at any particular time. I have…
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