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Taking a Break from ‘Personal Development’

Poppies
I’m so over personal development. Usually, I love learning how to amp up my life experience, but these days, I could care less about improving myself. I may have o.d.’d. Maybe it’s just a phase.
There are so many books, empowering quotes, advice on how to live, how to act, how to think. Do we  know [...]

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Keeping an Open Heart

Bleeding Hearts

I usually feel a strong connection with anyone I have a relationship with.. whether that relationship was short and intense or long and familiar. You get to see firsthand the dreams, hopes, fears, goals and feelings of your significant other. They are sharing those parts of themselves with you that others rarely get to [...]

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Planning a Trip is Half the Fun

Positano, Italy
Holy geez, would you look at this picture? I came home the other evening, tired from my usual late afternoon work session at Helios, to my new National Geographic Traveler.. and this photo was on the front. I was instantly revived. It’s Positano, Italy. Isn’t it beautiful? It’s where Diane Lane is whisked off [...]

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