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Discovering Joy
For most of my life, I had believed that happiness and joy were interchangeable feelings, synonyms for the emotion we feel when things are going well, when we are content and untroubled. They…
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Reminders
“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the…
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Beginning with Hope
“Although he had no inkling of where his future would lead him, he did feel strongly, often with anguishing clarity, that his destiny was shaping itself.” – Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund At…
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The Year of Joy & Grief
On February 10, 2001, I set off on an adventure, on a year that would change my life entirely. That day marked the beginning of the year that has forever since served as…