PREPENT5772/Day Nine: Marry Me?

Day 9 September 10, 2011   Marry me?  There was a wedding tonight, on the beach, under a full moon, and I remember meeting the couple the day after A. proposed to L. and how happy they were then and how happy now.  We danced all night. Now I think about the big question – […]

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PREPENT5772/Day Eight: UNPLUG?

  Day 8/40   September 9, 2011   Unplug?       I’m probably about 40 emails behind at the end of this ‘summer’s over week’, the important ones anyway, and now there’s homework, and deadlines, and friends in from out of town, and the week’s up, and lots of weekend plans, and crazy though […]

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PREPENT5772/Day Seven: WHATS UP?

Whats up   Early morning walk to the subway and a stranger smiles at me and says good morning and I greet her back, and then without thinking pass it on to the next person coming up the subway to stairs: good morning, what’s up?   Random, casual, lovely communication.   There’s this Semitic demon […]

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PREPENT5772/Day Six: FIGHT OR FLIGHT?

Day 6/40 Sep 7 2011   Fight or Flight?   G. is now 5 days smoking free.  Change happens. How? Changing a habit or owning up to some behavior pattern that actually isn’t good for you anymore, no matter how big or small, takes a fight. G. writes me this morning about his quit smoking […]

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PREPENT5772/Day Five: What’s Working?

What’s Working? It’s been raining all day and the picnic was cancelled. The kids were disappointed but that’s life. Instead we made a mural: a big sheet of paper glued to the wall on which we drew and scribbled the best things we did this summer. There were ice cream cones, and sea waves, and […]

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