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Last weekend in the Nantucket ferry terminal, I passed a defunct phone booth, the ornate wooden kiosk kind that was used twenty years ago to frame a..
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August 24 , 2016.
Invisibility
A chance reading recently provided a thought from Henry Thoreau that I think is worth sharing. Thoreau said:
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Half Full or Half Empty?
I’ve always felt the need to accentuate the positive, something I think I picked up from my mother. In tense situations she would always interject..
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November 08 , 2013.