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P.S. Check out a story from our favorite quip-sharer Jack! He and Deb headed out on another covert mission of gratitude.

https://medium.com/gift-of-shared-kindness/chat-with-deb-sneaking-around-on-a-mission-d9c708ae75ff

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Dec 30, 2022Liked by 3musesmerge

I never considered the difficulty of drawing a baby elephant’s ear! How does one master that? Left foot, right foot. As it were. The AA Big Book has this line: “Trudging the road to happy destiny.” Then adds, “to walk with purpose.”

Whether trudging or “being rocketed into the fourth dimension of existence,” (also AA) I take inspiration from how you approach and stick with tasks!

Now if I could just find my blissful path?! 🙃

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I think some folly would be "hippo-potamusses, and hippopotamuses like me, too."

https://youtu.be/OjPm0o04lGE

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Dec 30, 2022Liked by 3musesmerge

T-shirt: “Dear Algebra, Stop asking me to find your X. She's not coming back!” 😁

Thank you for the plug *and* the idea, Gail! 😊

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WOW! 🤩

I believe bliss and enlightenment are somewhere between “Whimsy” and Jordan Peterson’s rather brash view of most things...

The reality of what he offers probably has more to do with this quote I think:

“WRITTEN BY SAMUEL RODENHIZER

APRIL 22, 2016

“OPPORTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK.”

This quotation is often attributed to Thomas Edison. It does sound like something he would have said. But there’s no substantive evidence that links him to the expression, though you will often see his name following the quotation. Others have been suggested. But the most likely candidate for giving us the quotation is Anonymous. Anonymous has given us many excellent quotations.”

https://quotationcelebration.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/opportunity-is-missed-by-most-people-because-it-is-dressed-in-overalls-and-looks-like-work/

We could also look to the work of Jeffrey Davis who is all about WONDER and that’s the camp where I found myself...

In the space of WONDER, my entire life is shifting.

My entire identity has changed with WONDER!

If the message below by Peterson serves you, then by all means, embrace it!

“The path to enlightenment and wisdom is seldom trod upon because if it was all a matter of following your bliss and doing what made you happy then everyone in the world would be a paragon of wisdom. But it’s not that at all. It’s a matter of facing what you least want to face.”

~Jordan B. Peterson

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