Becoming a better person isn’t always easy. I remember looking back to identify the negative attitudes and thoughts that used to contribute to my unhappiness. My behavior was governed mostly by the feeling that I was owed something. I would become frustrated and irritable, going out of my way to do anything that would not […]
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“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” John Muir A few months ago, I heard someone make a comment on getting older. They implied that as we get older, “we all reach a point when we realize there is nothing new for us to do, nothing new to discover.” I
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A while back, I told my girlfriend she needed to move out. To my surprise, she did so that very day. I figured she’d get lonely and scared of having to be by herself and wouldn’t be able to live without me. Instead, she got stronger and happier with every passing second. I thought to
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As a child, I spent most of my summer breaks with my grandparents in Daisy, Arkansas. They owned and tended to a large farm there. I can remember seeing them both work so hard. But they enjoyed every minute of the modest and fulfilling life they had created in the southwest corner of rural Arkansas.
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Hiking was never a strong passion of mine when I was younger. We had places to hike where I grew up in Northern California, but in my youth, it was not a regular hobby for my family or me. Little Darby was a hiking trail nestled in the hills east of our home. The trail
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Recently, I said to my wife, “If I die before you, please don’t have my funeral in a megachurch. I might have to come back and haunt you for that.” Inspired by a funeral pageant on television, I’d made the mistake of imagining my own taking place with smoke machines, jumbotrons, and an army of bagpipers
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