Month: December 2016

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How Would My Relationships Change if I Resolved Never to Lie Again, Pt 2

A blast from the past because I forgot to blast yesterday.

A Writer's Life

In re-reading my former post on this topic, I realized I wasn’t actually totally honest in answering the question. I was honest as far as I went, but I stopped short of visualizing how my relationships would change if I never lied again. Instead I talked about what was in my present, how I was affected by trying to live lie-free now, instead of how these efforts could change my life.

That, I’ve realized, is a much harder question. So, now it’s time for the real truth.

How would my relationships change if I resolved never to lie again? No ‘that dress makes you look fab,’ or ‘I’m tired (just because I don’t want to go out).’ Neither would ‘I’ll be back in a hour (when I know it’s gonna be at least three),’I’m fine with that movie,’ or “No, I don’t mind when you constantly correct my grammer’ be…

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“Men have no mo…

Another blast from the past.

A Writer's Life

“Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me…”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

So said the fox.  The Little Prince did tame the fox and thus they were connected.  “…If you tame me, we shall need one another. To me, you will be unique. And I shall be unique to you…. My life will be filled with sunshine. I’ll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music,” said the fox. 
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince  

We have accomplished so much in this world – cars and planes and computers.  Skype…

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Living in Confusion

Blast From the Past…….

A Writer's Life

Like many of you, I subscribe to the many daily writing prompts abundant on WordPress. I’d like to say that I immediately jump on each prompt and write a post but…. I don’t. In fact, most of the time, I don’t. One day, however, there was a prompt entitled ‘The Land of Confusion.’ It read:

Which subject in school did you find impossible to master? Did math give you hives? Did English make you scream? Do tell!

First thoughts – I wouldn’t classify any of my years of school as a ‘Land of Confusion.’ Okay, math. I am mathematically-challenged and my brain doesn’t think in 3-D. Don’t dare show me a flat shape and ask me what it will be when 3-D. I don’t know and, frankly, I no longer care. And then there was Latin. I never mastered the art of translation and tenses. Thus my translation of ‘they…

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