The thoughts below come from the notion of fear and faith being perfectly correlated, inversely. The more you have of one, the less you have of the other. Paralyzed by FEAR Fear of admitting failure or of having made a mistake Fear of losing what is most important Fear of what others think or
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Like Thoreau and Bill Bryson, I took myself into the woods today, mostly for a walk up and down the hills, for the clear, cool air, the views of the distant mountains and landscapes. There is nothing quite like a walk among the trees, the juniper, piñon, aspen and ponderosas around here. They seem like
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Assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case.” Annie Dillard, On Writing, p. 68 At age 41 I had an epiphany about my own mortality. I was leaving my office, driving through a parking lot toward the main street. I had to stop the car as
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