Forget for a second all the things you consider inconvenient. Go outside and look around. As you walk out onto your stained wooden front porch notice the beauty in each crack of it, notice how nature has built this for you. You glance up seemingly to a rainy, grey sky-covered day. No problem. There is …

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Dear Little Mason, Hey little version of myself. The biggest advice I would like to share with you is to never let anyone keep you from being yourself as it took your older self a while to realize this. You have to pursue the things you love early on as much as possible as you …

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For 52 years I have sat in this spot and what marvelous things I have seen. I have seen humans, big, small, tall, all sorts of shapes and sizes, yet one thing always remains the same. It is the beauty of it all. The way humans interact has always been a puzzle to me because …

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Dear Madre, If I were asked to write my life as a story I feel as though it would be a crime not to mention my mother. I have so many wonderful things to say about this woman. The woman who cared for me, fed me, taught me every appropriate manner in the book, the …

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“It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.” – Albert Einstein. Nonconformity and peer pressure are two factors that decide our futures as human beings. It is these two factors that differ us from our fellow human beings as well. Nonconformity is the practice of not adhereing …

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