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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]

    Facebook on laptop in La Paz hotel room - NIGHT SEA JOURNEY: Buying back sanity in La Paz, Mexico

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

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LIVING AND DYING WITH CANCER: An introduction to the year the world changed

Marcel Dufond·September 5, 2022
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A FRIENDSHIP’S BOND: Story by Tihana Skoric

Contributing Writer·July 3, 2015
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Poems by Tihana Skoric: I Cannot, A Love Denied

Contributing Writer·October 12, 2015
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BAD PHARMA: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

Erica Roberts·September 28, 2013
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THE MEDITATING HERON: White-bellied heron—an emissary from the past

Hemal Naik·March 30, 2019
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THE ETERNAL STUDENT: Love what you do and do what you love

Alana Fiander·December 16, 2012
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What If Gollum Was Addicted to His Phone?

Shelli Pruett·January 4, 2019
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HOLIER THAN THOU: Discussing religion and spirituality through art

Niyati Shah·November 2, 2012
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HOPETOWN: A story

Erica Roberts·March 26, 2013
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PARCHED FOR BEAUTY: A collection of 3 prose poems about finding beauty

Laura C. Meyer·March 22, 2020
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Women’s Toilet vs. Men’s Urinal

Shelli Pruett·August 21, 2018
Pyrenees dog - Essay about aging

LUCKY: ‘Til death do us part

Contributor·December 19, 2013
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POEMS by E. AGOSTINI: Patrick, May and Waiter

Contributing Writer·April 3, 2012
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POEMS BY JAMES FARWELL: 10 haiku about meditative living

James Farwell·April 9, 2021
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POEMS BY JAMES FARWELL: From Moment to Moment, The Gift of Love and more

James Farwell·August 7, 2020
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POEMS BY OLIVIA HAJIOFF: The Path, A Summer Storm, The Girl in the Puddle

Olivia Hajioff·July 8, 2022
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Refrigerator GPS

Shelli Pruett·July 16, 2017
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THE MOUNTAIN AND THE VALLEY: A reality bigger than the dream

Contributing Writer·November 21, 2012
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POEMS BY OLIVIA HAJIOFF: Body Bag, Ode to a Headache and more

Olivia Hajioff·May 14, 2021
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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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POEMS BY SUSAN KSIEZOPOLSKI: The Bench of Solitude, Coming and Going, Gap Year

Contributor·May 21, 2014
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WHOSE MIND IS IT ANYWAY?: Get out of your head and into your life [book review]

Erica Roberts·June 26, 2016
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THE GIFT OF WRITING: To be a good writer, you have to be giving

Pamela Gerber·July 31, 2015
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THE POWER OF THE MANTRA: A monk chooses spiritual power over temptation

Forrest Rivers·July 9, 2019
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