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Almost a New Year

Almost a New Year

Starting over without forgetting, and a bunch of things that will make you feel good.

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Dec 27, 2020
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This photo was taken in the early 1900’s but it’s likely the same tree exists now. I wonder if we should go look for it?

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I’m not insinuating we start over.

We can’t. You know that, right? It’s taken me a long time to accept that starting over is a myth. We can never go back and do something again, wiping clean all the knowledge we’ve accumulated in our experiences. But we can start, right? Open our eyes a little more? Fall asleep again, and once again wake up? Each minute, hour, day, week, year. Eac…

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