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Good News, Missing Loved Ones, & Snow
Emotional level: 8 Mental level: 8 TODAY I LEARNED: 350 slices of pizza are sold every second in America. I’m ecstatic today, but I don’t want to say why. I feel like a kid waking up on Christmas morning. The anticipation of opening presents just brimming and rising in my smile. Something very wonderful…
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Stuck
Emotional level: 4 Mental level: 8 TODAY I LEARNED: McDonald’s once made bubblegum flavored broccoli. As I sat in traffic moments ago, I looked to my left, lost in thought. I saw a beautiful stone lion, frozen in time. It’s very being is entirely solid and will most likely exist in its place long…
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Terrible Two
Emotional level: 7 Mental level: 7 TODAY I LEARNED: Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt both snuck out of a White House even, commandeered an airplane, and went on a joyride to Baltimore. It’s day two of this new self-care journey and damn…I can say this is harder than people even realize. Keeping to a diet…
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A New Start
Emotional level: 5 Mental level: 7 TODAY I LEARNED: Oscar the Grouch used to be orange. It’s amazing, the things that frighten us. Our fears can turn us into something we never thought we would become. They prance around the edges of our thoughts until they see an opportunity to dive in. But why do…
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A Fear of Change
Emotional level: 5 Mental level: 5 TODAY I LEARNED: In 2005, a fortune cookie company called Wonton Food Inc. correctly foretold lottery numbers, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation. No fraud was involved. Today I am conflicted. I am torn between two life changing decisions. The result of my choice will forever transform my…
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Don’t Be An Entitled Asshole
Emotional level: 7 Mental level: 7 TODAY I LEARNED: Oranges were originally green! I’m feeling better today but, something has been on my mind. The concept of entitled people is a wide one. Why do they feel the need to constantly insist they are owed this and that? I’m sure it all comes from…
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The Do’s and Don’t of A Bad Day
Emotional level: 6 Mental level: 7 TODAY I LEARNED: Horseshoe crabs have eyes on multiple parts of their body. Today was a good day. In fact, it was a wonderful day! But yesterday, life definitely could have been better. Things didn’t exactly go as planned, but everything worked out in the end. It also…
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Self Expression Continued…
Emotional level: 7 Mental level: 7 TODAY I LEARNED: Betty White predates sliced bread! I thought about running away. In all honesty, I’ve thought about it on more than one occasion. I can’t tell you how many times it’s actually crossed my mind. I push it back to the darker depths of my mind…
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Truth Has Two Sides
Emotional level: 6 Mental level: 6 TODAY I LEARNED: Grapes are fatally toxic to cats and dogs. As the saying goes, there are two sides to every story. Two truths which are told from differing perspectives. So who is right? Which perspective is absolute or are they both wrong? It’s not that we want…
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A Fresh Start
Emotional level: 7 Mental level: 7 TODAY I LEARNED: A woman tried to commit suicide by jumping off the Empire State Building. She jumped from the 86th floor but was blown back onto the 85th floor by a gust of wind. Today is a fresh start. I’m starting on a new leaf and I’m…