What’s Next

For anyone asking what comes after the title, the paycheck, or the plan.

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We’ll Make It Through
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We’ll Make It Through

By Ray LaMontagne

August 30, 2020

Editor’s comment:   Thanks to Mike Utesch for sending this new RL song onto me.  With all that’s going down in all our lives, I love the very thought of...
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Furnishing Eternity by David Giffels
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Furnishing Eternity by David Giffels

August 30, 2020

Editor’s note: Thanks to friend, Frank Dixon, for turning me onto Giffels, a local (Akron) professor and writer. Don’t let the theme of building his own coffin (yes, that’s the...
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Living in Surplus by Seth Godin
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Living in Surplus by Seth Godin

By Tim McCarthy

August 30, 2020

Editor’s note: My life has essentially been a (still) unending struggle to move from deficit to surplus thinking.  I’m making progress.  Original Article: In our culture, it’s easy to choose...
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The Overstory
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The Overstory

By Richard Powers

August 1, 2020

Editor’s note:  Two reasons to avoid this book, kindly referenced by my friend, Joe Gibson: a. you’re looking for recreational reading (I had to strain to stay on track) or...
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I Shall Be Tomorrow
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I Shall Be Tomorrow

By Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum

July 28, 2020

“Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp...
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Self-Knowledge

By Maria Popova

July 28, 2020

Because self-knowledge is the most difficult of the arts of living, because understanding ourselves is a prerequisite for understanding anybody else, and because we can hardly fathom the reality of...
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Reinvention
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Reinvention

By Tim McCarthy

July 27, 2020

Events in the lives of each of our three children are becoming opportunities for their personal reinvention. Each are facing major life changes and so they must decide who they...
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Dreams be Dreams
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Dreams be Dreams

By Jack Johnson

July 27, 2020

Editor’s note:  Nice song to connect with this month’s blog and quote. Favorite verse: “Girl, don’t let your dreams be dreams”. 
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Harold Kushner
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Harold Kushner

By Harold Kushner, “When Everything You’ve Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough”

June 30, 2020

“As a rabbi, I’ve attending many people at their death and I believe it is not dying that we are afraid of.  Something else, something even more unsettling, even more...
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Our History
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Our History

By Tim McCarthy

June 30, 2020

After reorganizing my paper clip collections during the lockdown, I decided I would finally attack the thousands of files my sisters and I have set aside over the years regarding...
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I Miss My Grandchildren
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I Miss My Grandchildren

By Tim McCarthy

May 30, 2020

Editor’s Note:  I don’t just love this article because it reflects my and Alice’ feelings, it is simply a brilliantly written article.  And this “love note” is from a science...
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Pity Parties
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Pity Parties

By Tim McCarthy

April 27, 2020

A student raised his hand during an MBA guest lecture some years ago and said to me, “Thanks for telling us about the barriers you overcame to succeed, but could...
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The Avett Brothers - February Seven
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The Avett Brothers - February Seven

By The Avett Brothers

April 27, 2020

Editor's comments: A beautiful song about waking up to the realization that nothing in life is perfect, and that the pursuit of perfection is exhausting, endless and unobtainable. It's a...
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April Quote | Amelia E. Barr
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April Quote | Amelia E. Barr

By Amelia E. Barr

March 30, 2020

We hear voices in solitude we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.  - Amelia E. Barr
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Little Paris Bookshop
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Little Paris Bookshop

By Nina George

March 30, 2020

Editor's note:  This is an airy book of fiction about a bookstore on a barge on the Seine in Paris whose owner sets sail one day after 20 years of...
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Word of Mouth – The power of telling stories – BBC Sounds
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Word of Mouth – The power of telling stories – BBC Sounds

By Tim McCarthy

February 27, 2020

Link to Interview | Released On:   18 Feb 2020 Available for over a year Michael Rosen talks to storyteller Clare Muireann Murphy about how telling and listening to stories...
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Let It Be Me
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Let It Be Me

By Ray LaMontagne

February 27, 2020

Song of the Month: “Let it be Me”, by Ray Lamontagne Editor’s note: I was ruminating on a life changing event someone dear to me is going through and this...
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Og Mandino
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Og Mandino

By Og Mandino

January 29, 2020

  "I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from...
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Windsong by John Denver
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Windsong by John Denver

By John Denver

January 29, 2020

Editor’s Note:  Many Denver songs lean too syrupy for my taste and this one is a bit the same.  But the lyrics and his lovely voice – aided here on...
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Carol Holmes
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Carol Holmes

By Carol Holmes

December 31, 2019

“A happy life is made up of little things…a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check...
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Risking Deep Connections
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Risking Deep Connections

By Tim McCarthy

December 30, 2019

The first three paragraphs from a recent Seth Godin blog titled, “Deep Connection”, got me thinking. “When someone tells you something you need to hear, instead of something you’re hoping...
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