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    REDUCE YOUR BRAIN’S BLIND SPOTS: How cognitive training enhances self-awareness

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    EXERCISE AS PLAY: Movement, mindfulness and mental health

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    COMPLICATIONS, CONTRADICTIONS, CONFUSIONS: 3 words that became markers on a mindful path

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    TSYPL: The best—and most mindful—stock to invest in right now

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    POEMS BY GEORGE PAYNE: Sturgeon Moon, That Morning In Athens and more

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    ALASKA WINGS: Soaring across the mountains while releasing fear and doubt

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    MINDFUL LEADERSHIP IN STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS: Empowering leaders to create positive change

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    HANAMI DREAMING: The start of spring in Japan

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    REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S POLITICAL REALITIES: We can prevail over ignorance, lies and Trump

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    IMPEDIMENTS FACED: A safe return home from La Paz, Mexico

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    TYING UP LOOSE ENDS: One last—and glorious—day in La Paz, Mexico [Part 7]

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    NIGHT SEA JOURNEY: Buying back sanity in La Paz, Mexico [Part 6]

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“Live. Die. Repeat.”

Shelli Pruett·May 21, 2017
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2 SPIRITUAL FABLES: The Pilgrim, Master and Moth

Max Reif·July 24, 2024
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3 POEMS: The Traveller’s Handbasket, My Religion, I Am Not a Poet

Contributor·February 7, 2015
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4 POEMS BY MAX REIF: The Poet Defends His Integrity In a Dream, The Puzzle and more

Max Reif·May 9, 2021
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A BALLAD OF HOPE AMID A TIME OF CRISIS: Our season of spiritual revival

Forrest Rivers·May 12, 2020
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A BENCH UNDER THE MAPLE TREE: A story of the seasons of life

Kunal Mehra·September 21, 2021
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A CATHOLIC LOVE STORY: Finding God in both words and silence

Contributor·April 26, 2014
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A CHILDHOOD MEMORY: My brother never learned to jump

Mara Cohen·June 17, 2019
A collection of some of the funniest quotes ever

A collection of some of the funniest quotes ever

Contributor·October 21, 2013
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A CONVERSATION WITH SADNESS: In a secluded park, a valuable life lesson is learned

Trude Witham·April 6, 2018
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A CONVERSATION WITH THE GREAT TAO: Awakening the spirit

Forrest Rivers·May 5, 2020
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A Cure for Perkiness?

Shelli Pruett·April 26, 2018
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A Dog That Doesn’t Act Like a Dog

Shelli Pruett·September 10, 2017
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A Dog with Stockholm Syndrome

Shelli Pruett·September 19, 2018
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A Fish in Stilettos

Shelli Pruett·January 11, 2018
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A FRESH CANVAS: Painting a new life

Wanda Monague·May 6, 2013
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A Friend Request from the IRS

Shelli Pruett·March 11, 2018
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A FRIENDSHIP’S BOND: Story by Tihana Skoric

Contributing Writer·July 3, 2015
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A GLOBAL AWAKENING: A short play about the struggles of a modern-day Planet Earth

Contributor·January 12, 2015
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A Hair Dryer Computer Virus?

Shelli Pruett·March 25, 2018
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A HIGHER LOYALTY: Truth, Lies, and Leadership [book review]

Max Reif·May 1, 2018
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A LETTER TO PAULINE: Because I Loved Her So

Contributing Writer·January 7, 2012
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A LOOK BACK AT THE VIETNAM WAR: Poems and photos by George Payne

George Cassidy Payne·January 11, 2019
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A Million Dollars in Debt by 30

Shelli Pruett·July 16, 2017
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