lostseeker

Hope breeds hope and it's been my experience that the best way to combat the closed-minded and judgmental is to be neither of those things. If you have faith in others, it makes it so much easier for them to have faith in themselves.

• Every moment could be your last, so try your best to always be in a place you can look back on and say, "I was glad that was the last place I lived."

I wrote this a few years back at Christmas, for my mom. I got a good response then, and a few people asked me to post it the following year, as well, so it's become a bit of a tradition. Anyway, here you go...

The holidays have become a lot more complicated since I was a kid. Maybe that’s the case for everyone, maybe it...
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As children, the world builds us, piece by piece, with little choice in how we're made. As adults, and I think this may be what makes us adults, in truth, we can finally dismantle what the world's made of us and make of ourselves what we choose.

It's the unfortunate burden, and consummate blessing, of those able to see evil in the world that they will often find themselves in a place to do good.

There is so much power in the universality of music. I firmly believe that, if Babel is what shattered the words of the world into something incomprehensible from one place to the next, before it, we all sang.

Having never really had a place to call my own, a real home, in the physical sense, for a number of reasons, I have made it a habit to forge one of my own, inside myself. I build it from memory, bright and dark, and of the bits of others that I've collected along the way (always traded for parts of myself, in kind, of...
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I used to believe that we were brought to situations and people at the times in our lives when we needed to be there. I still do, but for a different reason.

Now I believe it's because we are always, if we approach life openly and honestly, with a modicum of self-awareness and a lot of curiosity, capable of learning from those places in which...
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