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The Queen of My Self
Aging Gratefully
By
Donna Henes
What if “aging gracefully” isn’t your style?. (And how to discover what is.) By Wendi Knox Don’t get me wrong. “Aging gracefully” is lovely. In a quiet, refined, elegant kind of way. Which is great, if that’s “You.” But it’s definitely not “Me.” I was never particularly graceful when I was younger. So, why would I suddenly become that way as I age? To…
The Worst Day
By
Donna Henes
It is all in the way we wish to see things. This profound understanding is perfectly expressed in a poem by Chani Gorkin, an extraordinarily wise-for-her-age 11th grade Hasidic girl in Crown Heights, Brooklyn: Today was the absolute worst day ever And don’t try to convince me that There’s something good in every day Because,…
Learning to Approve of Me
By
Donna Henes
By Joyce Rothman Low self esteem and the desperate need for approval has plagued me since childhood. Never thinking I was enough, surely everyone else knew better than me what I should do or how I needed to act. Or so I thought. It took cancer to change my perspective and now my decisions…
Speaking My Soul
By
Donna Henes
by Robin L. Silverman I once heard the saying that you could only be sure of two things in life: death and taxes. But when it comes to living soulfully, I can add a third: what you speak is what you get. I’ve become very aware of the words escaping my mouth each day, because…
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