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Row, Row Your Boat in Unison

ByM.P.C. June 10, 2020June 11, 2020

During my walk today, I had the time to reflect on some things: I don’t like the way things are headed right now. I know I’m not the only one. I’m a major believer in peace and in our ability to do good. The statewide protests against police brutality have shown the best and worst…

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It Is What It Is

ByM.P.C. February 11, 2014November 1, 2021

Those were the heart wrenching last words a friend dying of brain cancer said to me. It wasn’t our whole conversation, but those words exactly — words of complete acceptance and resignation — are the ones that stuck with me. He was a bartender and was telling me about his mixology techniques while he fixed…