Tag: love
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My Childhood Heroes
My childhood heroes are a pretty impressive bunch, I must say! I’d be proud to be compared to any one of them. As a child, I was less inhibited by the internal and external motivations of an adult. Life was simpler, less complex, less confusing, closer to being true to myself. My young, innocent self…
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Top 5 Reasons Why You Love The Job You Hate
It’s Monday Morning, 5am in Dallas, and nothing is the same, except for everything at my job, where nothing has changed. The weekend before last, I spent two short sleepless days buried in Hale College. This past weekend, I took four days and emerged from my cave to spend time with a friend. Familiar job-griping…
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3 Methods of Emotional Preservation
It seems to me I’ve never stopped feeling anything. Healing seems to only ever take two forms. We can either distance ourselves from the emotion, which feels like temporary hiding, or find something to drown it out. This poses a unique problem as I retract from the New Age touchy-feely man I was to focus…
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Richard Halley From My Heart On Admiration
My experience playing piano for the last 20 years has been colored by a remarkable contrast between inward fulfillment and outward struggle ranging from sentiments of over-praise and under-praise, appreciation and misunderstanding, love and repulsion. I first started banging away at my mother’s Schafer and Sons upright piano when I was about 5. My parents…