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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...
Austen Hayes
Aug 17, 20204 min read
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...
Austen Hayes
Jul 6, 20205 min read
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...
Austen Hayes
May 18, 20204 min read
Pictures and Passages; Growth in Solitude, Reassurance in Nature
Pictures & Passages; Growth in Solitude, Reassurance in Nature
Austen Hayes
Apr 12, 20202 min read
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...
Austen Hayes
Feb 29, 20205 min read
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...
Austen Hayes
Feb 23, 20204 min read
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...
Austen Hayes
Feb 2, 20205 min read
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?...
Austen Hayes
Sep 15, 20196 min read
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...
Austen Hayes
Sep 8, 20197 min read
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...
Austen Hayes
May 5, 20195 min read
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