Adopt a New Currency
Dear Jessica Brennan, In a world crammed with emptiness and useless stuff bought with borrowed money used to fill a bottomless void in humanity’s brokenness, let kindness be your currency. …
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Life Won’t Protect You
Dear Jessica Brennan, There is an excellent chance:Life won’t protect you.No one will come to save you.You aren’t going to win the lottery.You will bear the consequences of your actions.The …
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If I Only Had the Nerve
Dear Jessica Brennan, The interesting thing about bravery is that you usually don’t feel brave when you’re being brave. If you’re waiting for some surge of courage to overcome you, …
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What Should I Bring to the Potluck?
Dear Jessica Brennan, You can learn a lot about people over a dinner table. Production companies make whole television series about this. I mean, look at the late Anthony Bourdain, and …
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Living in a League of Humans
Dear Jessica Brennan, There is nothing good or bad in your life that you don’t carry in your body, and by that, I don’t mean in your brain, although your …
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How Pickled Beets Can Save the World
Dear Jessica Brennan Who cares if what you love doesn’t appear to change the world? Love what you love. If it is fighting for human rights, do that, but if …
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Decide What You Are and Be It
Dear Jessica Brennan, We hear a lot about nature and nurture, and people who are way more intelligent than I will ever be have educated themselves extensively on the topic. …
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Accept Life’s Gifts – Say Yes
Dear Jessica Brennan, If I go to the store to buy you a gift, come home, wrap it up, and put a bow on it, I’m excited. I get to …
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Laws of the Universe According to Mum
Dear Jessica Brennan, When you treat people with mistrust, they won’t be trustworthy.When you use a heavy hand, you will create resistance.When people feel unsupported, they won’t have your back.When …
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Go For Letting it Go
You can go for it, go to town, go bananas, go through the motions or go with the flow. You can go mad and go for broke, maybe go belly …
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