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Erin Schaden
Erin Schaden

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8 hours ago

Doors…

I like the thought that life is a series of rooms you enter, long corridors of events, people, places, all inviting you in with an open door and a threshold that just begs to be crossed. This image just works for me. Putting life on some sort of homey continuum…

Change

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Doors…
Doors…
Change

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1 day ago

Feeling Good…

I was running the other day, which is meditative for me and gives me access to parts of my mind (and body) that I do not have access to when I do not run. I was well into mile three when this thought occurred to me: To feel good about…

Feeling Good

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Feeling Good…
Feeling Good…
Feeling Good

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2 days ago

Acceptance Isn’t Always a Bitter Pill…

Lately I have been accepting things, people, life as they are. It isn’t easy because I want to change them up, make them into something else entirely. But that hasn’t really worked all that well for me over the past fifty or so odd years. So I made a decision…

Acceptance

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Acceptance Isn’t Always a Bitter Pill…
Acceptance Isn’t Always a Bitter Pill…
Acceptance

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3 days ago

The Privilege of a Lifetime…

Wow, pretty big start to this blog today. The privilege of a lifetime! Seems like a huge undertaking. And it is… Carl Jung said, “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are…” And I felt that. In fact, I would take it one step further and…

Middle Life

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The Privilege of a Lifetime…
The Privilege of a Lifetime…
Middle Life

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3 days ago

Making Friends with Your Life…

Have you ever been at war? With yourself? With others? With Life? My experience is that I am a battle wager and a war loser. I am trying, quite desperately in fact, to think of one war I waged and won. I am pretty sure the score to date is …

Acceptance

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Making Friends with Your Life…
Making Friends with Your Life…
Acceptance

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5 days ago

Cats…

I found a sweatshirt once that I wish I purchased. It was super soft, white and said “Dying alone with cats…” I knew it when I saw it that this was likely my fate. …

Cats

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Cats…
Cats…
Cats

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6 days ago

Craving…

I crave lots of things. All the human things: food, safety, shelter, attention, affection, love, material things. …

Frantic

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Craving…
Craving…
Frantic

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Sep 16

Gen X…

I grew up in the 70s and 80s. I spent my youth trying to figure out where I fit in the precarious space between my parents’ world and mine. I was ready to move out at 10. I am serious. …

Gen X

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Gen X…
Gen X…
Gen X

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Sep 15

Like Moving Water…

I sat in our campground last weekend, listening and watching the stream do its thing. Listening to it whirl by, being ever mindful of the fact that the water was constantly changing, coming from a source, unseen, unknown, moving on below me, to places also unknown and unseen. For a…

Beginnings And Endings

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Like Moving Water…
Like Moving Water…
Beginnings And Endings

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Sep 14

What is…

There is so much life to be lived. And so very often, I have missed life and great opportunities because I refused to accept what is. …

What Is

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What is…
What is…
What Is

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Erin Schaden

Erin Schaden

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Who am I? I am all that I write, all that I learn, share and grow. Read and find out? Check out www.nakedrandomthoughts.com for more.

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