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Matters | LOVE SAVES LIVES

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Sometimes I see, or read, or experience something that hits my heart. Or maybe it’s someone that I am inspired by. Or art that I think is real good. Really, anything that I think matters. September 11, 2012. Found this amazing photo project from the comfort of my cushy bed. It’s humbling, sad, and beautiful. And brilliant. Check out Where Children Sleep. August 22, 2012. And maybe 20 minutes into the movie, I decided, “this is definitely going to be a post for Matters.”. He didn’t seem to have any ...

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What Gives | LOVE SAVES LIVES

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September 9, 2012. My ego would say that I don’t know shit about love. A bit overdramatic and bitchy, which is her scene. The big girl in me would say that there are times in my life when I thought I was being loving. That I loved a person and wasn’t it obvious, because of how much I wanted them to . There’s a lot of things that could fill in that blank. It doesn’t matter what they are, nor to whom they were addressed. Because love isn’t about the want the what can I get. Love is ALL give. So, I’m ...

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Lane Lines | LOVE SAVES LIVES

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November 5, 2012. Audio version of this is here. One of the best lessons I am learning right now (or any other time, really) is to stay in my own lane. I actually am learning lots about it. Usually after I’ve attempted to cross a lane line, or after I’ve found myself perched on said line. They’re useful boundaries. All of that was fun. And against pool rules. Only, I’m now at the point where I realize that life is one big fucking pool and everybody’s got their own lane. I’ve got my own lane. It...I&#8217...

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Write to Read | LOVE SAVES LIVES

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January 28, 2013. I could kiss you. I mean, really. A hug for Maria Popova. Too, for the introduction. Thank you for shoving something out into the world. That has become the highlight of my day. I was very much in need of something truthful and inspiring to interrupt me from my self-induced misery. That struck a chord. For I am a person who is fairly well-obsessed with my own knowing. It drives me. Takes up hours of bandwidth each day. And there I go. Back in for days, weeks, months. And part of me is s...

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Truthworthy | LOVE SAVES LIVES

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September 25, 2012. I’m a fan of listening more than reading and I’ve also had a lifelong love of narrating. So, for the audio version here go. One of my favorite books when I was young was The Adventures of Swiss Family Robison. Beside the ridiculously sweet tree house that the family built, one of my strongest memories of that book involved an iguana. Because moments later, Fritz stabbed it with that same stick and killed it. Now, this is where the parallels end fear not Lilah was not harmed. Thoug...

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Loving Thoughts | LOVE SAVES LIVES

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January 3, 2015. One of the great privileges of my life so far has been coaching water polo. And for a couple seasons, I coached a team of teenage boys who were entering a phase of their lives where they were learning about becoming men. They were coming into high school and onto a new team (for many their first water polo team). Perhaps not really sure of what was expected of them. And I expected quite a lot from them. Especially in terms of how they carried themselves. For years, I would hear all kinds...

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#5 Bad Words | LOVE SAVES LIVES

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October 3, 2012. What follows is my un-fussed-with truth that is politially incorrect. I have decided that caring what “other people” think does not serve me, so I’m practicing being truthful in ways that require me to “dare greatly” as Brene Brown. Right On with it:. I love to swear. I REALLY love it. My friends that know me very well and love me know THAT very well. And love me. Truth is that s–t #@%! And yet until this point, I’ve hid much of that side of me from my Mom, authority figures, paren...

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Big Girl Stuff | LOVE SAVES LIVES

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Category Archives: Big Girl Stuff. The Big Girl I often refer to is the highest part of my self. The part that comes from love, not fear. She’s who I want to be the one who listens to the quiet voice in my head that knows what’s right. I’m doing my best to let her drive my life as much as possible. I am a good person who feels bad about being a racist. July 10, 2015. I’ve now edited this post three times in a matter of hours, because I have not been getting it. Go for bonus Black points because the photo...

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My 20 | LOVE SAVES LIVES

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October 10, 2012. I’ve mentioned my friend Evan. Before. He’s a professional dating coach. He’s one of my guy friends who I put in the bucket of “Brothers I Never Had.”. He’s one of those delightful/annoying people who has no problem calling anyone on their shit. He’s great about serving up humble pie to women like me. I think I’m quite smart. And I am. Except when I’m not. It’s easy to count off reasons we think guys don’t make the cut. Sometimes they’re legit. It occurs to me now that Elizabeth Gilbert...

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Our six-pack | LOVE SAVES LIVES

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April 19, 2014. There are two people that live in our home me and my boyfriend (previously introduced as FuHu, short for presumed future husband). But there are six of us in our relationship. I was not real aware of this until about a year ago when I saw this sweet peach of man. On Brandon Stanton’s glorious blog, Humans of New York. You may have seen it:. Then I pretty much forgot about it. The person I think I am has been dating the person I think FuHu is. Which is not the story of 2013, which was so c...