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Positivity

There’s not much good news available in today’s world, or so it seems. However, there are scientific studies and plain old common sense to remind us that ‘thinking positive’ yields better results than succumbing to dismal reflections. Let’s find a phrase for each Sun Sign to use when the gloom turns to doom and you

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The Lost SWAT Team

As I backed my car out the driveway and into the street my day began with rifles pointed at me and five or six SWAT officers on the ground advancing toward me, submachine guns, assault rifles, riot shotguns, vests, camo, helmets, the lead black and white all jumping with red lights and green lights and

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A quiet moment

Just a day or two ago, these jonquils had been battered by strong winds and then weighed down by snow, causing their heads to droop nearly to the ground. And now with a little sunshine, they’re proclaiming spring is on the horizon. Optimism in the teeth of adversity. Another reminder to keep on, petal by

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Three Accounts

PRECIOUS MEMORIES Walking with my sister and brother-in-law On a winter evening Admiring the neighborhood’s Christmas decorating prowess Sweet. After about ten minutes my sister says Why does everything look so dark? Turns out she’s wearing sunglasses, not her regular glasses. You’re ready for assisted living her husband says. ON THE LONGEST PUBLIC FISHING PIER

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