Flowers of sorrow.

  We were a very motley crowd of people who took the bus every day that summer 33 years ago. During the early morning ride from the suburb, ...

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1)In the 1950s, pro basketball was predominantly a game won predominately by teams on the east coast. 2)The high school principal...

Life Need Not Be The Same As Always

The Three Little Trees Once upon a mountain top, three little trees stood and dreamed of what they wanted to become when they grew...

The Wallet and the One Who Never Leaves

  He was just another old man on a pilgrimage train—quiet, soft-spoken, with eyes that held a world of stories. Nobody really noticed him at...

A Beard, a Blanket, and a Boy’s Question: A Sleepless Lesson in Life

  In a quiet village nestled amidst the mountains of Iran, there lived an elderly man known not just for his wisdom, but for two peculiar th...

Two Boxes and a Gentle Answer

  One evening, during a quiet moment between the noise of life and the weight of the day, I found myself in a dream—or maybe it was somethin...

A Story of change - Small Victories

Standing in the noisy cafeteria of the old school, I was watching the students line up for lunch. Having wearied of trying to "cut...

The Tailor’s Bill – A Lesson Beyond Worry

  Worry has a way of sneaking into our lives, often over things that may seem trivial to others but feel like mountains to us. One afternoo...

Write in Sand, Etch in Stone: A Lesson on Friendship and Forgiveness

  The desert sun blazed overhead as two close friends journeyed together across the endless stretch of golden dunes. They walked in silence,...

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A plane flying from London to Rome hit a thunderstorm and was bounced around by the turbulence (that's when the air outside the plan...

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be on the go : be very busy (going from one thing or project to another). "I'm really tired. I've been on the go all we...