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Immortality Or Death
Immortality or Death
Sophie curled up next to Abbie “Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.” —Ludwig Wittgenstein, Australian Philosopher Aiden couldn’t imagine life without…
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Comfort or Distress
“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.”— Michael Jackson This experience was described by a nurse: “On Saturday 3/27 we had a patient that went into a rapid decline. At the time the patient…
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Was Always a Dream, Part I
“Every night I lie in bedThe brightest colors fill my headA million dreams are keeping me awakeI think of what the world could beA vision of the one I see” In keeping with the Pride month of June, I have a story for you that continues into today. So that we are all on the same page, not all of you reading this may know what I mean by Pride. “The word ‘pride’ is an integral cultural concept…
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The Heart of Joy
“We cannot always control the situation we are in, but we can always control our attitude toward it.” – Victor Frankl Aiden remembers how his dad died. He died the way he lived, as a gentle man and a gentleman. His name was Wilbur Ernest Wolf, and he grew up on a farm, becoming a jack of all trades and a master at some of them. Dad was a…
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Control or Surrender
Hollingworth Lake Shore by David Dixon is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0 “To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities.” Bruce Lee It was as though he had woken up one day and his world had completely changed. Aiden was single after a sixteen-year relationship that had ended. She had taken their dog with her and left his cat, at least, but the apartment was emptied of all her things. This…
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