Tag: small
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The Universe has Some Tricks Up Her Sleeve
The other day I sent a text to an old coworker I hadn’t contacted in some time to let her know I had a new book out. She texted back and said, hey that’s cool. I had worked with her when I was travelling to Charlotte, NC years ago. Right after that I stopped at…
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Being Small – Not Always Easy
Sometimes being small is hard, especially in the beginning when your ego is still proud and swimming in a world where ego is often everything. Everything is a competition. Everything is measured against everything else. Everything is ranked and when you are small you are often found wanting. Measured and found wanting because you are…
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Being Small – Not a Sheep
I’m small. I’m not a sheep. I don’t need an alpha dog to herd me around. And yet the world still can’t figure that out. When I was in school certain fellow students thought they needed to protect me, shield me from bullies or just assholes. They were well intended. But I didn’t want protection.…
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Being Small – Perpetual Child
Being small, whether physically, psychologically, personality-wise, is like being a child. Remember when you were a child, so many things appeared large and overwhelming. Adults, nature, furniture. A stool of a chair or a table seemed impossibly tall and out of reach. But you wanted to be on the stool or sitting at the table…
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Being Small – Spaces
When you’re small you can fit into small spaces. I know when I was young this was a great advantage when playing hide and seek. I was good at hide and seek not because I was clever but because I was small and could hide. I don’t know that I was so good at seeking.…
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Being Small – Invisible
Sometimes when you’re small it really means you’re invisible. Or unnoticed. Sometimes that’s good. Sometimes that’s bad. My best friend growing up was large. He was large physically and larger than life in personality as well. I don’t know if it was by accident or fate that led the smallest and largest school kids to…
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Being Small 2
Small I was born small. I still am. Deep down. Superficially. Systemically. Existentially. Emotionally. Personally small. I know this more ethereally than anything specifically. I suppose it’s because my memory is so bad that I feel ethereal. Or is my memory bad because I am ethereal. Perhaps the ethereal has no need for the specific.…
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Being Small
Like three years ago, I worked on a set of practice writings based on the idea of being small in a big world. I never knew what to do with them, but realized as I stumbled across them again that they were a precursor to Theo and Sprout in theme and voice, even though the…
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