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jrdreistadt
Sep 15, 20152 min read
The Epiphany
Once you experience an epiphany, there is no going back. So it was when I realized that my emotional difference was an integral, and...
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jrdreistadt
Aug 10, 20154 min read
Bat Out of the Belfry
I was recently looking through a three ring binder in my attic for a document that I thought might be helpful to a coworker who, just the...
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jrdreistadt
Aug 4, 20152 min read
Giving Up
Not too long ago, I was given an opportunity for which I worked very hard. But it just didn’t work out for a multitude of reasons. So I...
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jrdreistadt
Jul 29, 20152 min read
Seasonal Sensitivity
I can remember a time when, at about 12 years of age, I walked through the snow in bare feet. For fun. I loved the feeling of the crisp...
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jrdreistadt
Jul 2, 20151 min read
Who Am I To Save The World?
As a naive young college graduate in the late 1990s, I can remember actually telling people who interviewed me as I embarked upon a...
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jrdreistadt
Jun 30, 20152 min read
Forager, Farmer, Fool
About 13 years ago, a good friend told me that I should just do one thing if I wanted to be successful. As I approach my 40th birthday,...
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jrdreistadt
Jun 11, 20152 min read
Interconnected Self-Sufficiency
The concepts of interconnectedness and self-sufficiency may, at first, seem incompatible. Interconnectedness implies that all living...
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jrdreistadt
May 28, 20152 min read
Bibliophilia
I love to read. An early precocious reader, I worked my way through chapter books in kindergarten and by the end of elementary school,...
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jrdreistadt
May 13, 20151 min read
Excuse My Vulgarity
I recently met someone whose perception of the proper intersection of authenticity and propriety was skewed slightly differently than...
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jrdreistadt
May 11, 20152 min read
Procrastination
My life has been a series of unfinished projects. Yes, I have seen many books, reports, home repairs, and other projects to their...
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jrdreistadt
May 7, 20152 min read
Choices and Consequences
When watching CBS Sunday Morning on, when else, a Sunday morning, I learned that more video is uploaded to YouTube every minute than I...
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