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What a Bike Ride Taught Me (or How I Am Learning To Stop Making Excuses and Live the Life I Want)
I rode my daughter’s bike to the post office today. Why is this even a big deal, you might ask? Okay, it’s not a big deal. It’s actually a really small act. I will share with you why I am so pumped up about it, though. When we moved to our small farm, we moved […]
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Life from Within
Okay, let’s play a little game. I am going to start a sentence and I want you to pick the option that would most likely follow. Okay, here goes: “I have decided to follow my heart and…” “…become a tax attorney.” “…take an extra shift at my job.” “…move to Patagonia to climb and write.” […]
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The Start of My Path
I was twenty-two years old on my way to a job interview when my car broke down. I was about a quarter-mile outside of the first town on a long stretch of nothingness, about ninety minutes away from home. I had just graduated from college with a marketing degree and was looking for my first […]
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Our Journey Back
What we are looking for is a way of experiencing the world in which we are living, that will open to us the transcendence that informs it, and at the same time, informs ourselves within it. Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth The needs of life. When we are infants, they are as […]
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Clarity in the Quiet
I began to feel the pull in late spring and by the beginning of summer, it came to feel like a full-on tug of war. If you have ever had an event – the feeling in your stomach of anticipation – I had this feeling many times before soccer games, before trips to locations I […]
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Where your treasure is…
Living with intention. Living in the present. Your authentic life. Living your best life. Thanks mostly to Oprah, these phrases have become a central part of our culture. I admit, though, that these phrases just all seemed kind of abstract to me, not sure how to really apply them in a way that could actually […]
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Saving Instead
Money. I think it really all changed for me when the paycheck stopped being directly deposited. No more magical appearance of funds into my checking account twice a month. I say ‘magical’ – it wasn’t like I didn’t work for the money that appeared, but it was abstract. I would go to my sales job, […]
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The 4-H Fair and a Series of Fortunate Events
Aah, the 4-H fair. If you’ve been to one as a spectator, as a fried-food connoisseur, or as a ride-goer, then the fair is always something to look forward to, something that is pure childlike fun. If you are a 4-H’er, then you know this time of year as something a little different. It’s the […]
Seja Brumley 