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"Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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56: Things I Carry – Tending My Secret Garden

A man cannot live one life fully split between two moments, two gardens. Inevitably they both will be overtaken with weeds. As I continue to tend my garden I recognize we reap what we sow. There are still weeds in my garden. There will always be weeds and they are my weeds.

I planted these. I will tend to them.

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55: Try This Again Shall We?

It is time do something different. Failure is feedback, not prophesy. This is my rock now. I’ll go push it alone.

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Lessons from a Black Friday: Year Two

Here are a few of the lessons learned since that dark, unhappy, and personally blackest of Black Fridays two years ago.

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54: Lessons from a Black Friday

Here are a few of the lessons learned since that dark, unhappy, and personally blackest of Black Fridays two years ago.

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09: A Love Letter to the Betrayers – Friends

Who are your friends?

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53: I Slept with Her

I have throughout my life, on more than one occasion slept with a woman and left wondering why I did it.

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Thoughts on Lisa Arends Video: Can People Cheat on Someone They Love?

Lisa Arends asks “After being cheated on, it’s natural to question if the entire relationship was a lie. Is it possible for people to cheat on someone they love?”

Of course you can.

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52: My Anxious Bladder

I hate admitting anxiety is an issue. “Anxiety is for women. Real men don’t get anxious,” my Pride tells me.

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51: Things I Carry – Days Go By

Days go by, and still I think of you…

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08: A Love Letter to the Betrayers – What Compels You?

I feel compelled to embrace my pain and loneliness. Today I am compelled to make friends with those very parts of me I have been compelled for so long to hide from.

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