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One small rock sitting by itself beside mountains - A Stone Among Diamonds: Finding Happiness on Your Own Path

A STONE AMONG DIAMONDS: Being different doesn’t mean you’re worth less

Dylan Tepper-Black·September 3, 2025
The advent of the internet and social media has brought us closer together in a way that has never before...
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WHEN YOUR SOUL IS WEARY: Pastor Dominic Done on finding true rest in God

Contributor·July 3, 2022
Magic, ruined. I can’t help but think of those words when I reflect on the human experience and how our...
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LETTER TO MY PRE-PANDEMIC SELF: Things will never be the same

Mel Bender·May 22, 2022
I wish I’d known at the beginning of 2020 what was about to happen to the world and how it...
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POST-PANDEMIC AND PUSHING 60: My old emigrant narrative no longer works

Aine Greaney·April 16, 2022
In my earliest memory, I’m skittering around the kitchen in our little thatch-roof farmhouse in County Mayo, Ireland. It’s the...
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LIFE AFTER THE MASK MANDATE: Reflections on fear and compassion

Mel Bender·April 7, 2022
On March 21, 2022, the requirement to wear a mask in most indoor settings in Ontario was lifted. Masks are...
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NO BAD DAYS: 7 core values to make you stronger

Contributor·March 22, 2022
The day after I was born, a surgeon used a tiny pair of surgical scissors to save my life for...
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FAITH AND PRAYER: How they can help guide us through life’s darkest moments

Mary Chen·February 16, 2022
Coming face-to-face with death, especially when it’s unexpected or imminent, is daunting for believers and non-believers alike. There are the...
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OMICRON ANXIETY: 7 tips to help you manage it in a mindful way

Mia Barnes·February 15, 2022
Just when you thought you were safe from the Delta variant, another more contagious one shows up: Omicron. Now it’s...
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UPLIFTMENT: Maintaining your spirituality and rediscovering hope through COVID-19

Corinne Isaacs-Frontiero·January 13, 2022
“The Global Health Data Exchange estimates 251 to 310 million people worldwide suffer from depression,” according to worldpopulationreview.com. For the curious...
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SURVIVING IN TODAY’S WORLD: Even tiny insects survive by co-operating with each other

James Farwell·November 14, 2021
In today’s world, many are doing nothing to protect themselves and their loved ones from extinction. We have a pandemic...
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CLEAN AIR: 6 reasons to improve your indoor air quality and 8 ways to do so

Mia Barnes·November 2, 2021
The current pandemic reminded everyone of the importance of indoor air quality. Suddenly, the air you breathed at the office...
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A NECESSARY EVOLUTION: From mayhem to mindfulness and meaning

James Farwell·January 26, 2021
Today’s world is confusing and conflicted. We have people in leadership positions who substitute fantasy for fact. We have people...
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HOPEFUL RESOLUTIONS: Can we set simple plans and goals for the coming year or years, and be happy with them?

April Von Braun·January 3, 2021
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. I never have. I think it is tiresome, and a setup for personal failure,...
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NO (HU)MAN IS AN ISLAND: 2020 taught the world gratitude for love

Forrest Rivers·December 22, 2020
When we look back on the past year, we will undoubtedly remember it as the “year of the pandemic.” And...
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3 DREAM REVELATIONS: Messages from the universe

Forrest Rivers·October 18, 2020
The Sacred Stone and a Vision One day (about six years ago), while hiking in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, my...
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IT’S OK TO COUGH: Lessons from returning to school in a pandemic

Julie Lewis·October 14, 2020
Two weeks ago, my daughter came home from school exhausted; a normal behaviour, given that she just started junior kindergarten....
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POEMS BY JAMES FARWELL: Liberation, A Eulogy for the Living and more

James Farwell·September 25, 2020
Liberation Oh, to experience the liberationfrom storylines,distorted beliefs,along with theinherent suffering of it all…Finally, to beand live and express myEssence,...
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FEAR FACTOR: Overcome COVID-19 anxiety in 4 simple steps

Ashley Simmons·September 24, 2020
No one ever imagined that the entire world would go through this. A virus—small, at first—evolved and spread so rapidly...
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POEMS BY HARRY KRESKY: Autumn, What Sustains Us, Original Sin

Harry Kresky·September 12, 2020
Autumn Autumn’s chill on the river.A softening of sunlight;Summer’s warmth andBrightness fade. Live in autumn—Play out your handwith the cards...
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CREATURE COMFORT: Pets can uplift us during stressful times

Trude Witham·August 21, 2020
It’s almost midnight and I’m sitting in my living room, quietly sobbing. The sobs become a whimper and finally stop....
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POEMS BY MAX REIF: A Cry From Down the Rabbit Hole in the Time of the Pandemic and more

Max Reif·August 6, 2020
A Cry From Down the Rabbit Hole, in the Time of the Pandemic I have gonedown the rabbit holechasing a...
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NEW NORMAL: Holding out for better and awaiting hope

April Von Braun·July 9, 2020
Am I normal? Is this normal? What the hell IS normal? Normalcy is described in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as being...
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A SHIFT IN MINDSET: From doing to being

Anna Aksenovich·June 27, 2020
When my day-to-day routine used to look like a sprint from point A to point B, walking was a routine:...
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STAY HEALTHY: 10 tips for managing ADD or ADHD during the pandemic

Mia Barnes·June 15, 2020
People with various mental health issues have a hard row to hoe during the Coronavirus pandemic. Many of the things...
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