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Be kind to someone today
I saw this on my Facebook feed. It’s so good, I decided it deserves its own space here. (Grab a tissue.)
I work in a decent sized, local, indie bookstore. It’s a great job 99% of the time and a lot of our customers are pretty neat people. Any who, middle of the day this little old lady comes up. She’s lovably kooky.
She effuses how much she loves the store and how she wishes she could spend more time in it but her husband is waiting in the car (“OH! I BETTER BUY HIM SOME CHOCOLATE!”), she piles a bunch of art supplies on the counter and then stops and tells me how my bangs are beautiful and remind her of the ocean. “Wooooosh” she says, making a wave gesture with her hand.
“Ok,” I think to myself. “Awesomely happy, weird little old ladies are my favorite kind of customer. They’re thrilled about everything and they’re comfortably bananas. I can have a good time with this one.” So we chat and it’s nice.
Then this kid, who’s been up my counter a few times to gather his school textbooks, comes up in line behind her. we’re connected to a major university in the city so we have a lot of harried students pass through. She turns around to him and, out of nowhere, demands that he put his textbooks on the counter. He’s confused but she explains that she’s going to buy his textbooks. Continue reading
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Stress
I’ve been reading about and trying to understand this stuff for a while now. As per usual, I didn’t really get a handle on it until I set out to write about it in my own words. If you have problems with stress, maybe it’ll help you too.
It is very important to understand that stress is not a failure to man up.
It is an involuntary, physiological response to internal and external stimuli. However, just because it is involuntary, does not mean you have no control! Continue reading
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2020
TRUMP: I am watching the first season of The Apprentice. Sadly, it’s the only season Netflix has. I’ve been impressed by two things in particular. One is that he’s in no way a racist or a misogynist. The other is that his penthouse apartment in NYC and his mansion in Westchester both make the White House residence look like a trailer park rental.
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2020
Joseph Curl writes at Gateway Pundit that the Democrats’ emphasis on painting President Trump and everyone who supports him as racist is a losing strategy.
Democrats hoped to thunder to Election Day with a ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ war chant, but former special counsel Robert Mueller wee-weed all over that plan when he declared that neither Trump nor his campaign colluded with the Kremlin to alter the outcome of the 2016 election. Continue reading
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