Why Not Aim for Greatness?

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We don’t aim for greatness and making a difference because we are too busy acting out our conditioning. Why not aim for more?

The Poet in Prison Dreams

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A lover of birds dreams he can fly and talk to animals … and that his human brothers and sisters might learn to forgive him.

The Next Life [Book Excerpt: 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared]

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My brother Bret started the next life at forty, when he departed from this world by suicide.

First, Be a Cowboy

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I’m not saying this is the only life plan one could cleave to, but it’s working for me so far. I’ll let you know how the fishing goes, if I get there.

A Perfect Test

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A San Francisco native travels to the Mississippi Delta for lessons on another America.

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Original Sin

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To be free of the lifelong effects of a childhood failure, Albie had to do more than remember what happened.

Love Letter Lost

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Years later, Thomas Fiffer can recall every aspect of the letter he wrote to her—how he felt, the way his “e’s” curled—everything except for the words.

Grace: An Excerpt from PANORAMA CITY

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“I kept having realizations, and then when I tried to remember them, or recall them, in words, I mean, I couldn’t seem to put them back together.” By Antoine Wilson

The Smoking Ruins of Your Sexual-Romantic Life

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Life with children calls for compromises, but it can’t keep you from making love.

The Dream of Fondue

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Emerson wrote that a hero is no braver than any other man, but he is braver five minutes longer. Robert Barsanti suspects it is the same with successful marriages.

Those Who Leave Us

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Supernatural experiences give Erik Christian and his mother hope for humanity, and life after death.

Whose Life Is This?

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Keith Doyle, a man with second sight and precognitive dreams sees pregnancy, and abortion, in a different light.

Abyss

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‘You dare to stare into such a friend’ … A poem by Daniel Lee Fee.

For The Love of Zombies

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Whatever ills you see in society, or perhaps your self, can be personified in zombies.

“We were in for a rude awakening: our parents gave us dreams that America can’t easily fulfill.”

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This is a comment by Kaleb Blake on the post “5 Questions to Reclaim Your Life”.

55 Years in School: And the Last

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“This teaching thing is an art as well as a science.” Carl Bosch on the art, science, and miracle of learning.