Austen Hayes
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
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
- 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
- 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 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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Austen Hayes
- Mar 17, 2019
- 6 min
Dose #21: Clients: We're Not Supposed To Love Them...
"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's...
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Austen Hayes
- Mar 10, 2019
- 6 min
Dose #20: What is Your 'Why'?: Today's Quest For Meaning And Purpose
Note a: A dear friend sent out a group message to friends asking them to visit, "In Small Doses". Happily, more than 10 new readers...
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Austen Hayes
- Feb 24, 2019
- 4 min
Dose #19: Would You Like To Chat?
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love." ~Rumi As I write, I'm tense. Trapped. Is it a hard...
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Austen Hayes
- Feb 17, 2019
- 3 min
Dose #18: Some Things Aren't meant To Be Fixed, But You Can Stand By
"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say." ~ Bryant H. McGill This week I had lunch...
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Austen Hayes
- Feb 10, 2019
- 4 min
Dose #17: 90 Days Without TV - Rested, Inspired, Organized
"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." ~ Albert Einstein One year ago I stopped watching television...
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Austen Hayes
- Jan 13, 2019
- 3 min
Dose #13: Woman Power: Use With Care
"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his (her) freedom." ~ Bob Dylan The Equal Rights Amendment was...
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Austen Hayes
- Jan 6, 2019
- 5 min
Dose #12: Is It Illness Or A Shortage of Hope?
"A leader is a dealer in hope." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte As an intern in an adolescent group home I was assigned the role of counselor for a...
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Austen Hayes
- Dec 30, 2018
- 3 min
Dose #11: A New Year;After The Striving - What Then?
"Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself." ~ Mohsin Hamid Christmas is a gentle time. People smile easily, they're...
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Austen Hayes
- Dec 9, 2018
- 2 min
Dose # 8: One Singular Sensation
"Just one step. Just one mile. Just one dollar. Just one kiss. When we look at life through the lens of 'one', everything becomes much...
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