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The Lost Art of Self-Inquiry

The Lost Art of Self-Inquiry Feeling crazed? You should be. We now make hundreds of choices a day, some matter more than others. But even for those relational choices, the ones that impact our lives and loves, we often rely on the same quick-click, swipe left or right decision-making we’ve…

Self-awareness

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The Lost Art of Self-Inquiry
The Lost Art of Self-Inquiry
Self-awareness

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The Power of this Simple Question: How Can I be Helpful?

Beauty is a collective virtue. We miss opportunities to create and see beauty in our everyday lives when we fail to consider the needs of others. Everyone is needy — for attention, affection, and affirmation. These are baseline human wants, whether we express them or not, feel them more acutely…

Beauty

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The Power of this Simple Question: How Can I be Helpful?
The Power of this Simple Question: How Can I be Helpful?
Beauty

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How to Love Many Things: Coming Out and Into a New Reality

Love may be love. But straight or gay, it’s never easy. Finding love later in life — with our accumulated experiences, emotional attachments, inevitable losses, and lived complexities — is humbling. Coming out late and finding love is even more so. Through all of this, there is Grace (which can…

Coming Out

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How to Love Many Things: Coming Out and Into a New Reality
How to Love Many Things: Coming Out and Into a New Reality
Coming Out

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May 9, 2021

Falling Well

It was the time for our time together… You, my once, my now and tomorrow, absent from our afternoon ride on the high road along the cliff. ___ Not in the cloud breaks or the white caps today; not waiting on the point where the lovers met and married, then…

Grief And Loss

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Falling Well
Falling Well
Grief And Loss

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Apr 15, 2021

Until We Are Done

I lost my wife and partner to cancer in the autumn of last year. I’ve been living and writing on Cape Cod. [Shopping alone on a rainy winter Sunday.] Half the things in my cart I don’t eat. But you do. ∞ See, they’re here for you. I’ll take them…

Death

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Until We Are Done
Until We Are Done
Death

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Feb 13, 2021

Someone You Love Has Died; Start the Conversation

Losing a Love and Finding Yourself, Again I couldn’t stand being there another night; not after eight months of COVID and hospice and soggy masks and empty needles and used catheters catching my socks, nodding to another caring stranger by the bed. My wife had just died after 12 years…

Grief

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Someone You Love Has Died; Start the Conversation
Someone You Love Has Died; Start the Conversation
Grief

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Growing Grief

·Oct 26, 2020

Faith in the Unfolding: A Conversation With My Dying Wife

The mental fog that comes with end-stage liver failure often turns to delirium; toxins in the blood cannot be cleared and anemia deprives the brain of the oxygen it needs to perform higher order functions like comprehension and conversation. The cancer in my wife’s liver brought us to this place…

Death

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Faith in the Unfolding: A Conversation With My Dying Wife
Faith in the Unfolding: A Conversation With My Dying Wife
Death

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Jan 2, 2020

It’s That Time of Year Again! How to Have the Absolute Bestest Performance Review Possible

You may be wanting to forget 2019, but chances are good that your boss doesn’t or can’t. It’s performance review season — the second happiest time of the year! Okay, maybe not so much. Performance reviews are among the least favorite encounters for both the reviewer and the recipient. This…

Management

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It’s That Time of Year Again! How to Have the Absolute Bestest Performance Review Possible
It’s That Time of Year Again! How to Have the Absolute Bestest Performance Review Possible
Management

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Dec 9, 2019

We’re Not Good At Reading People and It’s Hurting Us

People get us wrong all the time, which means we get them wrong all the time. As the holidays approach, as you navigate the pressurized social circumstances they bring, when there is relatively little time or desire to think, when food and alcohol dumb us all down, you might want…

Self Improvement

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We’re Not Good At Reading People and It’s Hurting Us
We’re Not Good At Reading People and It’s Hurting Us
Self Improvement

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The Startup

·Aug 21, 2019

Monkey Grooming as a Metaphor for Life

Learning to de-bug our lives as a daily ritual can makes us healthier and more resilient. We can look to the original ginga ninjas for inspiration. They create mental maps of one another and where they live and are smarter because of this process. A reader recently asked, “How do…

Self Improvement

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Monkey Grooming as a Metaphor for Life
Monkey Grooming as a Metaphor for Life
Self Improvement

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Charles Roussel

Charles Roussel

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Writer, Health and Wellness Coach living on Cape Cod and loving many beautiful things.

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