From somewhere I got a message ‘way back last January: “This is not the year for you to get everything you want; it is the year for you to be grateful for everything you have.” Because I wanted to quote this and not commit plagiarism, I looked up the origin of the saying, and I […]
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Once a friend of mine, visiting in a nursing home for the elderly, said “Merry Christmas” at the bedside of a woman who then began to cry and said, “I didn’t know it was Christmas.” My friend was angry. She had heard Christmas music in the lobby, but there was none on […]
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I have a question: is there anybody out there for whom 2020 is the year you dreamed of? Or planned for? Or, ok. . .just expected? I don’t mean to be silly or to rub your face in your disappointment, but I just want to establish that I am not the only one who is […]
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