Category: Words
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The four Cs are clear, concise, correct, and compelling.
My father’s family didn’t hug when visiting; germs, they said. My sister and I took it to a higher level. We visit without seeing each other. Five parts of a personal letter, not used in a business setting. I have distilled the writing advice I’ve read and received over the years into the four Cs—clear,…
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first and foremost – build a good relationship with your needs
“When you point a finger at someone else, there are three pointing back at you, and when you point at yourself, there’s three pointing at them.” THERE’S A FLY IN MY SOUP In every life, we are constantly confronted with situations where a stranger will do something acutely irritating or discomforting: perhaps they’ll turn up…
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I am sure I am not mad–and that wasn’t my fantasy
By: Dmitri Malyga, February, 20. Kyiv, Ukraine. For the wildest yet most common for some people, what I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. It might be madness; would I expect it when my senses deny their evidence? I am sure I am not mad–and that wasn’t my fantasy. But I need…
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Pónganse en el lugar de Malinalli. Están en uno de los puentes de entrada a la Gran Tenochtitlan.
LA NIÑA QUE SOBREVIVIÓPedro J. Fernández Imaginen que son una joven que acaba de cumplir 15 años, que su piel se parece al color de la tierra, que apenas dejan atrás su niñez… y que sueñan con el que será el gran amor de su vida. Ahora imaginen que es 1519, que son esclavas de…
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This figure is about freedom, sensuality, and awe, like the number 5
According to numerology, a system ascribing meaning to numbers based on patterns and ancient context, the integer 20, a master number implying high potential, symbolizes new beginnings, abundance, and manifestation. The prime and natural number 23 represents change, progress, and innovation, new beginnings, revolution, and transformation. The digit 23 also denotes adventure with a touch…
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To commemorate a moment of beauty, awaken and connect with your surroundings
When lovers touch, their breathing and heartbeats synchronize, and feelings of physical pain fade. Breathing and proximity can relieve stress, and the same intimacy and proper breathing can promote arousal. Arousal is a necessary and universal predecessor to orgasm. Couples grow increasingly aroused as they synchronize their breathing. Breathing will first deepen, their respiration rate…
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“Okay. Just go in. You know how to conduct yourself, I’m sure,” the man told her.
A Smile Worth a Million Dollars By: James Corporon Chicago, IL. 2022 Seduction, as Amelia had been taught it, was worth everything. “You got all in the bag? Everything he asked you to bring?” the guard asked her. Amelia didn’t know why some rich guy needed her to bring him extra stuff. What was more important…
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I felt bitten by a dog, but the bite strengthened me.
It’s a scary story and suitable for your collection. A singular person appeared around the same time as you with the seduction work. I can’t describe how it happened. It was gradual, but I could see the line between reality and fantasy. During the six months of our contact, the demon changed me. I felt…
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Chants from Ancient India | 11 Powerful Mantras to Cleanse Aura, Negative Energy + Bring Abundance
Chanting promotes a feeling of connection to oneself and others. A spiritual discipline to improve listening skills and sensitivity. An enthralling practice that deepens our relationship with our source and those around us. Descanting together provides a powerful sense of oneness, a feeling lost in our ever-increasingly separate and busy lives. When we intonate mantras, our mind expands our…
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In our brief labor in this world, we can move the rock by, and with the aid of, choice.
We tell stories about choice for many reasons. We want to learn or teach; we want to know others or have them know us; we want to understand how we got from there to here. We take the choices that for some reason or other have lit up like stars across our memory, and we…
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But the neoliberal revolution attributed to Thatcher and Reagan had to be accomplished by democratic means.
In the US case I begin with a confidential memo sent by Lewis Powell to the US Chamber of Commerce in August 1971. Powell, about to be elevated to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon, argued that criticism of and opposition to the US free enterprise system had gone too far and that ‘the time…
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Self-control is part of a group of skills called executive function.
If there’s a waiting line, it’s not fully open. We find the first written description of people standing in line in an 1837 book, The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle. Carlyle described what he thought was a strange sight: people standing in an orderly line to buy scarce bread from bakers around Paris. Today, the…
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