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interconnection and the web (of support)
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Britton Gildersleeve
Can you say trimalleolar ankle fracture, three times, FAST? As I said the other day, it means all three bones in your ankle fractured. Broke, busted. And a big OUCH. My poor husband. Today his right ankle looks like the before picture — almost exactly. Three breaks (you can’t see the ‘posterior malleolus’ — the…
FaceBook memes and gratitude
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Britton Gildersleeve
Right now on FB, my youngest sister has tagged the three of us other sisters to do the ‘gratitude challenge.’ In which for five days, you have to come up w/ three things a day for which you’re grateful. Just three, I said? Because I started a gratitude journal years ago, so I’ve been practicing.…
the Buddha was a teacher
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Britton Gildersleeve
One of the many small epiphanies I think of as ‘baby’ enlightenments was when I realised that first & foremost — before anything else — the Buddha was a teacher. As was Jesus. I know Christians think of Jesus first as the son of God. But for me it’s the teaching thing: he was a…
rain, rain
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Britton Gildersleeve
It’s raining. The gardener in me is happy, but the sun-loving reptile? Not so much. Most things are like this, I suspect — good news/bad news. And not even ‘bad’ news. Just inconvenient, or gloomy, or … dampening. 🙂 Lately, whenever I sit down to write, or even think about writing, I bump up against attachment.…
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