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Processing Input

By Tim McCarthy

July 30, 2022

“You don’t trust me”. It hit me like a brick to the side of my head. But as I’ve grown older, I try hard to process input that I don’t...
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Living Our Best Life
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Living Our Best Life

By Kimberly Brown, “Living Your Real Best Life”

June 30, 2022

Because living our real best life is tethered to our intention to be happy and free and to help everyone else be happy and free, we don’t have to feel...
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Shaping Our Jiminy Cricket
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Shaping Our Jiminy Cricket

By Tim McCarthy

May 30, 2022

Each of us operates with a voice inside our head, our life’s narrator. Narrator seems a good term since it’s the voice that judges every thought we have, every action...
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Feeling Understood
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Feeling Understood

By Mardy Grothe

April 30, 2022

You don't have to completely understand people to make them feel completely understood. -Mardy Grothe
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When Your Mind Changes
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When Your Mind Changes

By David Loy

March 31, 2022

To become a different kind of person is to experience the world in a different way. When your mind changes, the world changes. And when you respond differently to the...
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Time Stretching Exercises
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Time Stretching Exercises

By Tim McCarthy

March 31, 2022

Oliver Burkeman subtitled his book 4,000 Weeks “time management for mortals”. Time and mortality are tough subjects that Burkeman faces head-on and with creativity and humor uncommon to self-help books....
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Four Thousand Weeks  - Time Management for Mortals
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Four Thousand Weeks  - Time Management for Mortals

By Oliver Burkeman

February 28, 2022

Editor’s note:  I’m only half-way through this gift from my son, Tim, but it’s likely to make my top ten of all time.   I’d call it self-help with a...
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Softening of Age
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Softening of Age

By Felicia McCarthy

February 28, 2022

Grace and kindness [should] come with the softening of age -Felicia McCarthy
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The Softening of Age
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The Softening of Age

By Tim McCarthy

February 28, 2022

Six of my nine brothers and sisters who remain earthbound gathered to kibbutz for a few days recently.   I was struck by the words my poet sister used in...
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Stopping or Starting
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Stopping or Starting

By Tim McCarthy

January 31, 2022

Starting things is what I’ve become good at. Stopping?   Not so much. Each fall, I review what I learned from the current year.   Then, using that information, I...
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Price we Pay for Love
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Price we Pay for Love

By Mary Ridpath Mann

January 31, 2022

Grief is the price we pay for love.                                 ---Mary Ridpath Mann
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Life is Like a Game of Cards
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Life is Like a Game of Cards

By Jawaharlal Nehru

November 30, 2021

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism. The way you play it is free will. — Jawaharlal Nehru
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Better Angels of our Nature
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Better Angels of our Nature

By Steven Pinker

November 30, 2021

Editor’s note:  I purposely chose this book as a companion to this month’s “News Cyclone” article.  Pinker’s well-supported theory that violence has continually declined over the centuries is a pretty...
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Faith
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Faith

By Lake Street Dive

November 30, 2021

Editor’s note:  Occasionally I like a cover way more than I liked the original recording.  This one, George Michael’s Faith covered by my new favorite band, Lake Street Dive is...
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The News Cyclone
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The News Cyclone

By Tim McCarthy

November 30, 2021

The question: Does media reflect or form culture – was a hot topic at the time I was a young marketing professional. It’s a classic “chicken or the egg” philosophic...
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Discrete Bits
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Discrete Bits

By Seth Godin

October 30, 2021

It’s so much easier to see and process the world if we divide it into discrete bits. This is non-fiction, that’s fiction. This is a good restaurant, that’s a bad...
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Old Wishes
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Old Wishes

By Tim McCarthy

October 30, 2021

A few months ago, my friend, Chris, shared this quote: “Ask yourself, Tim, what do you have now that you once wished for”? The thought was particularly interesting since he’s...
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Forever Young
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Forever Young

By Bob Dylan

October 29, 2021

Editor’s note:   I enjoy the extreme pleasure of playing out with my son, Kevin.  Recently we were invited to his old neighborhood in Connecticut to play an outdoor family...
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Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering
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Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering

By Scott Small

October 29, 2021

Editor’s note:  It’s funny that I was told this book is “easy to read” because for me, it was not.  Small is a scientist and therefore while more reachable than...
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The Opposite of Congress
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The Opposite of Congress

By Trent Hinger21

September 30, 2021

If con is the opposite of pro, then is Congress the opposite of progress?  -Trent Hinger21
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She’s Leaving Home
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She’s Leaving Home

By John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Manuel Barrueco, David Tanenbaum

August 30, 2021

Editor’s Note:   The great legacy of the Beatles is in two pillars: 1. They explored a variety of musical approaches much wider than anyone before or since and 2....
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