Austen Hayes
Everything is About Something Else
The Lamp in the House "Happiness doesn't have just one address." ~ Anonymous I run my fingers slowly across a National Geographic map...
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Austen Hayes
Austen Hayes
- Feb 7, 2022
- 7 min
Everything is About Something Else - Lessons From a Pickup Truck...
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given circumstances, to...
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Austen Hayes
- Nov 20, 2021
- 1 min
Goodbye for now, my dearest friend...
November 1, 2021 To you, my most beloved companion, I say goodbye for a while. You walked this earth the best you could - you saw, not...
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Austen Hayes
- Sep 13, 2021
- 5 min
Everything Is About Something Else
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." ~ Albert Einstein ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I don't ride the train...
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Austen Hayes
- Jul 3, 2021
- 4 min
Bringing to Mind - The Nature of Paths
Walking with no particular plan, I spotted this weathered little barn. How resilient it is, I thought, standing in silence, holding its...
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Austen Hayes
- Jan 11, 2021
- 4 min
Imagination
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." ~ Michelangelo It's the first day of January, 2021. A day for...
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Austen Hayes
- Sep 14, 2020
- 5 min
Morning Sounds
"To love another person (creature), is to see the face of God." ~ Victor Hugo 4:30AM. The day begins with the familiar sounds of birds...
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Austen Hayes
- Aug 17, 2020
- 4 min
Courage: When What You Care About Is Bigger Than Fear
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." ~ Theodore Roosevelt Writing the word 'courageous' makes me feel less afraid. As I hear...
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Austen Hayes
- Jul 6, 2020
- 5 min
Bringing to Mind: Endings
"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more." ~ Virginia Woolf On a balmy, rainy day In early December I met...
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Austen Hayes
- May 18, 2020
- 4 min
Bringing to Mind: Things Invisible
"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances." ~ Aristotle In these irregular...
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Austen Hayes
- Apr 12, 2020
- 2 min
Pictures and Passages; Growth in Solitude, Reassurance in Nature
Pictures & Passages; Growth in Solitude, Reassurance in Nature
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Austen Hayes
- Feb 29, 2020
- 5 min
Waking To Where You Belong
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." ~ Henry David Thoreau Three years ago a client left the insurance business to produce...
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Austen Hayes
- Feb 23, 2020
- 4 min
Dose #29: A Woman's Way - Tend and Befriend
"I meet people and they become chapters in my stories." More from life on a commuter train... The announcement came as we pulled into the...
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Austen Hayes
- Feb 2, 2020
- 5 min
Dose #28: The Vitality Of Generations, Nourished By City Lights
"The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners, hand on the torch of life." ~ Lucretius I awake at 3 am on this...
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Austen Hayes
- Sep 15, 2019
- 6 min
Dose #27: Part II: Man(Kind)? - The Slave Post-Civil War, Twisted Truths And Stolen Lives...
"Herein lies the tragedy of the ages: not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty, not that men are wicked, - who is good?...
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Austen Hayes
- Sep 8, 2019
- 7 min
Dose #26: Part I: "Man(Kind)"? - Without Consent, The Slave In America
Hello, everyone! Summer is about to end, In Small Doses begins. I hope these past months have been all you'd hoped they would be - fresh...
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Austen Hayes
- May 5, 2019
- 5 min
Dose #25: What Can We Learn From Obsessions?
"It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's...
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Austen Hayes
- Apr 22, 2019
- 6 min
Dose #24: The Myth Of The 'Desperate' Older Woman
"I've never been particularly aware of my age. It's like being on a bicycle - I just put my foot down and keep going." ~ Angela Lansbury...
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Austen Hayes
- Apr 14, 2019
- 6 min
Dose #23: Every Life Is A Story
In The News - This week I'm posting a notice about a program I believe deserves mention. If you're involved in a program you'd like to...
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Austen Hayes
- Apr 7, 2019
- 4 min
Dose #22: The Narcissist's Way To Self Preservation - Divide And Rule
"Divide and rule, the politician cries. Unite and lead, is the watchword of the wise." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Narcissist: a word...
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