We need the kind of break we can plan ahead, where we can float about in a kind of recharging gell. Or use our noggin to think about things slowly and calmly – like a mental and spiritual massage.

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Melinda's eyes sparkled when she set them on you, and once settled she could pretty much talk you into anything. Not that she was conniving. She just had a perpetual case of inviting-itus. “You have to taste this.” “You have to see this.” “You have to smoke this.”

And then there was the spider.

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You can't be young and not stupid. It is a trade-off.

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...here is to the New York drivers who don’t know where they are and keep on moving. May we all take a page out of their travel guide. Chances are, if you keep moving, being lost will be an adventure.

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... on 911 Danny the bartender in front of me was 11. “I was just a lad,” he said. “Can you imagine?”

... On 911 I was 51. That made Danny the bartender 40 years my junior. Forty years. And here he was the little pipsqueak pouring me a glass of wine. What was going on here? As they say in the old country – I was gob-smacked.

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... on 911 Danny the bartender in front of me was 11. “I was just a lad,” he said. “Can you imagine?”

... On 911 I was 51. That made Danny the bartender 40 years my junior. Forty years. And here he was the little pipsqueak pouring me a glass of wine. What was going on here? As they say in the old country – I was gob-smacked.

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You weeren's born. You were evicted. Your mother had to work to get you here. Why do you think they call it "Labor?"

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The other day I signed up for a Lifetime Membership for a Meditation App. It seemed like a no-brainer, until I heard myself think, “Wait a minute – how long would I have to live to make this lifetime membership worthwhile?”

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My life is like a quiz show. I have so many names, places, things, summer vacations, Christmas Carols stuffed into my head that it is difficult to sort through them all on a moment’s notice. More and more I depend on the kindness of strangers.

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“Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.” Someone said that somewhere and it is now on coffee mugs all over the planet.

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