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An excerpt from the novel, “The Ruffian’ by: Kevin John Ragnarsson Wilson Lee Clarke ———————————————————————— My Mother’s passing left me hollow. I felt now I had nothing. Everyone I ever loved had departed, left me. I was immersed in a sense of misery and self-pity. Feeling unloved, worthless … Years later, I still wonder what…
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I’ve always believed we should be enjoying life, whatever occupies us, wherever we are. After all, life’s too short. During our lifetime the average person spends a third of their life working. Many people follow a daily routine. From the moment we wake, choices are being made … and I’m sure, like me, you’d choose…
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Sue and I sat down at the kitchen table to sample the latest cake. Wonderful! I felt I must be getting on in years if I’m feeling excited about yet another appointment with cake? Yet, that’s me, I’m in my happy place! Anyway, I was about to sink my teeth into a rather generous slice…
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I was talking with a friend of mine recently during one of our morning meetings. Dennis is a successful dealer of antiques. A senior guy who confesses he should have retired ‘years ago.’ ‘Then why don’t you?’ I asked. (Knowing the answer didn’t stop me asking anyway …) The object of derision for Dennis was…
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Hello Bill, are you OK for our catch-up next week? Can we leave the catch up until after August, Charlie? Most of us have had to make adjustments this time of the year. For me, August always seems like the world and his P.A. are on, or planning a holiday. Everyone but me …( just…
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Most of you know that I love my networking. It’s not the fact that I have found a modicum of success through direct business either. All my contacts know precisely what I’m good at although the fact is … not everyone is in the marketplace for my particular services, all of the time. This is…
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Maria Popova and Hermann Hesse ponder how to be more alive. Read that full story here: https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/change-wonder?e=73733b688f
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(an excerpt from a forthcoming book of the same name by Kevin John Ragnarsson Wilson Lee Clarke) Chapter 1 It was a quiet, cool, and beautifully crisp Irish lakeside morning as I busied myself tending to the deck of a recently moored motor launch, returned early after an overnight fishing expedition. I was happily lost…
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May Sarton on the Art of Living Alone “There is no place more intimate than the spirit alone,” the young May Sarton (May 3, 1912–July 16, 1995) wrote in her stunning ode to solitude — the solitude she came to know, over the course of her long and prolific life, as the seedbed of creativity. Living alone can be deeply…
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Here’s a great observation from our friends at: The Marginalian by Maria Popova “In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in the company of someone confident enough to stay unsure…
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