Tag: identity
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Fancy Dancy
It’s fascinating to see how our definition of “fancy” changes as we get older. Little girls often love to wear extravagantly decorative dresses with a lot of flounce and jeweled finery. Older girls want to look older than they are, so they dress like teenagers in their efforts to pass muster as those they imitate.…
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Who Am I Really?
At seven years of age, Ward shows up in a multitude of ways. He can be the dapper young man who is polite and gracious. He can be the focused student who strives to do his best in class, or the fiercely competitive soccer player who pushes himself to practice and improve his shot, or…
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Is It Me I See?
We have a plethora of sandhill cranes in central Florida, and their hatching season is now. They strut all over our headquarters with an arrogance tantamount to their size. They’re annoying. They don’t seem to fear anything human. If you get too close to their chicks, they stretch out their wings, which extend six to…
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This Is Me
This is a red-shouldered hawk. I’m not a birder, and I can’t tell a hawk apart from a falcon, but I have an app that tells me that this is what this bird is. He was sitting on my car as I approached to use it. I was amazed that he didn’t immediately fly away.…
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Sunrise–Sunset
In the movie, “Fiddler on the Roof”, Tevye sings a song during the wedding procession of one of his daughters that reflects his acute awareness of the passing of time and opportunities that need to be valued when they appear. This movie is one of my all-time favorites. It reflects a difficult time in Russian…
Tip of My Iceberg 