The Stories

Can you come closer so we can talk?

March 6, 2021March 6, 2021

Decisions take a second. It’s before and after that’s a challenge.

February 19, 2021February 19, 2021

Today’s Card – Four of Swords

February 6, 2021February 6, 2021

realization flashed in Dave’s mind with a sudden surprise. It was a voice coming from a TV or loudspeaker

February 2, 2021February 2, 2021

He felt isolated like a fish in a fishbowl, without the safety of the aquarium

February 1, 2021

watching them sent a rush of pride through her body, quickly washing away any uncertainty

January 30, 2021February 4, 2021

A pursed lipped thank you was all she said before leaving the room

January 30, 2021

an act is intolerable if and only if it is a duty not to do it – the inverse of an intolerable act is a duty

January 29, 2021January 29, 2021

In the end, I was able to resist her, no matter how much it hurt

January 27, 2021January 27, 2021

It is also the art of finding ways to cooperate, even when others are motivated by self-interest

January 24, 2021January 24, 2021

her father a freelance writer, her mother busy with a part-time job at a local florist, life seemed to provide the best of both worlds for Katrina

January 22, 2021

Beliefs matter because people act upon their beliefs—whether those beliefs are true or not

January 20, 2021

We identify the excellent with the admirable, and we detect the admirable by the experience of admiration

January 19, 2021January 19, 2021

the triangle maps destructive interaction that can occur among people in conflict

January 19, 2021January 19, 2021

Today’s Card-Justice Reversed

January 17, 2021January 17, 2021

It didn’t take long for one person to speak up and say, “This is the work we need to do.”

January 17, 2021

the body of a woman was exhumed, decapitated, and burnt on the grounds that her corpse had been attacking villagers at night

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021

And if you want to feel it right now, if you want to put it in charge, you can do that

January 12, 2021January 22, 2021

Oddly, she was on rather better terms with several individuals she had detested

January 9, 2021

Ships were lost, as much through incompetence as through the violence of the weather

January 6, 2021

Tarot del Día – Seis de Copas

January 3, 2021

Today’s card – King of Swords – Only you know if there is more

January 1, 2021January 1, 2021

I’ll wear a robe, and instead of drinking champagne, I’ll toss my graduate cap in the air and cheer

December 30, 2020

The more effectively dependent people are on one another, the more independent and daring they become.

December 29, 2020December 29, 2020

Chilling Gestalt – Oddly Therapeutic

December 27, 2020

Be brave. You can’t be nice all the time because the ones that aren’t nice will take advantage of you. Be brave.

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020

Like you can’t even have breakfast?

December 21, 2020

“Do you want me to acknowledge you now or make you struggle and repeat yourself a few times?

December 18, 2020

His mother, an amateur artist, encouraged him to draw. Her wanderlust furnished him with subjects.

December 15, 2020December 14, 2020

“Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.” Unknown Author

December 12, 2020

This isn’t someone else’s errand; this is your battle, your mission, your life.

December 12, 2020

0 The Fool – Toth

December 11, 2020December 11, 2020

High seas today at Ocean Beach

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020

they choose what garments to wear. if they clothe themselves in old values, the castaways choose those values

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020

“Most people schedule phone calls, not what they want to feel. I am just saying.”

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020

take a walk and see the sun color the beach by sunset

November 30, 2020

Ding. A text message disturbs his reverie. Shaking his head, “what a trip,” he says, and he looks down at the screen.

November 29, 2020December 8, 2020

putting her face between the mobile and Trace’s eyes, pushing herself into his line of sight to get his attention

November 28, 2020December 10, 2020

He taps a generic “thank you” message, but the commenter’s words stick with him

November 27, 2020November 27, 2020

but already, he feels silly for putting his opinion out there for the whole internet to see

November 26, 2020November 26, 2020

Mary the Squirrel stood still, wrapping her tail around his shoulders. “We could just leave.”

November 25, 2020November 25, 2020

“Feeling fear is all right, my sweet Pippin. But being brave is confidence despite fear.”

November 24, 2020

la cortesía se salió por la puerta

November 22, 2020

In simple terms, it’s an effort to manipulate opinion by promulgating an overblown, scandalous, and damaging narrative

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020

“Wait. Please wait! When you stopped playing, I stopped dancing. Could you stop again? Please?”

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020

crossing the ocean, sailing on a giant spool of thread

November 20, 2020November 20, 2020

“My plate broke itself?” screeched the Squirrel. “There! Your shoe broke itself.”

November 20, 2020November 20, 2020

Mainsail, staysail, foresail, jib, king spoke right up

November 19, 2020November 19, 2020

he heard a little noise and then buzzing in his ears. Pippin gasped-a giant squirrel!

November 19, 2020November 19, 2020

The word “self-destruct” was coined by the show’s writers

November 17, 2020November 17, 2020

reality and fantasy are weirdly and dangerously blurred and commingled

November 11, 2020November 11, 2020

Shouldn’t we know the tastes, preferences, needs, and desires of the people we will be next year—or at least later this afternoon?

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020

70 to 93 percent of our messages come through nonverbal forms

November 5, 2020November 5, 2020

3 Card Spread- Don’t walk away!

November 4, 2020

Today’s Card-Eight of Wands-Action!

November 3, 2020November 3, 2020

The Battle of the Nile on 1 August 1798, dated 1905-EDUARDO DE MARTINO (1842-1912, Italian)

November 2, 2020November 2, 2020

but if I stand in the other character’s shoes, the words feel good.

November 1, 2020November 5, 2020

Today’s Card-Ace of Pentacles-Green Light

November 1, 2020

Today’s Card – King of Wands – Be a tourist in your own town.

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020

What’a it like to experience Sartre’s Nausea?

October 20, 2020October 20, 2020

Notice the wind flow imprinted on the sand pattern-balmy weather coming from the southwest.

September 23, 2020

Ace of Cups – Rider-Waite

September 19, 2020September 20, 2020

concern with his own interests is the essence of a moral existence

August 29, 2020

men who use that Argument are the ones who dread a reasoned moral attack more than any other kind of battle

August 26, 2020

torn in her allegiance, vacillating between joining her husband on Elba or returning to her father, Emperor Francis

August 25, 2020August 25, 2020

whether true or false, rational or irrational, consistent or contradictory. The only way to know which they are is to integrate your principles.

August 24, 2020August 25, 2020

Everyone has to trust someone

August 19, 2020

knowing the attendant probably couldn’t hear him but could read his lips if he made it easy

August 12, 2020August 16, 2020

a finales de la década de los setenta, se aprecia a la izquierda el Hotel Río

August 10, 2020August 10, 2020

He would tell us tales while playing the piano. To me music and stories go together.

August 9, 2020August 16, 2020

do you slow it down, space it out, and enrich it?

August 8, 2020August 16, 2020

“A bake sale? Isn’t that stereotypical?”

August 7, 2020August 7, 2020

Expression. Use your own words

August 7, 2020August 16, 2020

and although sometimes torturous, finding the right words

July 29, 2020August 22, 2020

It is how ideas become real

July 24, 2020August 24, 2020

Yo te llevo de la mano

June 3, 2020July 6, 2020

Society is a concept. We are just people.

May 2, 2020March 6, 2021

Cooly my border collie doesn’t see the same things Rollo does

February 18, 2020July 12, 2020

“Oh, can’t you write it funny?”

January 18, 2020December 8, 2020

Unconditional and inevitable love?

December 17, 2019March 10, 2020

But she also taught me how to put frosting on a cake.

November 17, 2019November 29, 2020

It is amazing what one can glean from reading metrics on posts.

November 11, 2019August 27, 2020

What about an argument or standoff that by now is purely ego?

November 7, 2019August 13, 2020

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