Rozanne Lopez

Travelling to new places reminds me to be present. I was in Atlanta last week for #4’s indoor volleyball tournaments. We were in the middle of a city in a convention center that housed about 10...

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Habits are the small decisions you make and actions you perform every day. According to researchers at Duke University, habits account for about 40 percent of our behaviors on any given day.  Y...

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To describe texture in words is challenging so I will write where it is absent. Over the last few years, I have had to rest my eyes from any type of visual aids. When I do not have my glasses on,...

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I have missed writing. My extra time is filled with kettlebells and barbells. I have prioritized the journey of reclaiming my body – caring for it through tearing each muscle. But I missed writ...

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strong (adj.)Old English strang “physically powerful, powerful in effect; forceful, severe, firm, bold, brave; constant, resolute…” “I think this person travelled the furthest to be here�...

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We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it’s their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty. In the central literary text of the land, The Tale of Gen...

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THE MORE LOVING ONE by W.H. Auden Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. ...

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We are inundated with advice on where to travel to, but we hear little of why and how we should go, even though the art of travel seems naturally to sustain a number of questions neither so simpl...

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Light and Heat. At dawn, the world rises out of darkness, slowly sense-grain by grain, as if from sleep. Life becomes visible once again. ‘When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying and...

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Inherit. I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.” ― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Toll...

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