Tag: Be Radical
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Today is my Day!
Today is my birthday! As tradition, I make a resolution to myself. Last year I decided to take a social media fast for a year. The year of no social media was not easy at first. It got easy fairly quickly. I spent significantly less time scrolling. I allowed myself to go directly to my…
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What a Crazy Christmas Tree!
The O’Gara Clan has been known to be nontraditional in a lot of things. Holidays is when our nonconformity shines. This year is no different. Daughter #2 is attending a trade school for HVAC. She has tried a few things as she attempts to find her way along the path to adulthood. This is her…
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To Cow or not to Cow
What are your feelings about eating meat? I’m not a vegetarian. I like red meat. However, all social and cultural reasons aside, I can’t ignore the proof that not eating animal products saved my mother’s life. Her doctors gave her 5 years to live with a newly diagnosed genetic disease and that was 7 years…
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Reading is an acquired taste
Humans who love reading do not understand others who don’t enjoy reading. We readers look at the non reading humans like they are aliens. Think of it this way. Not everyone likes tacos or chocolate. I’m not sure why but they don’t. Reading lovers unite! Let us the book lovers push our love for reading…
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Day 98
What happens when you throw caution to the wind and watch it blow away? Do that thing you have been thinking about forever. Jump off that what if train. Maybe you fall face first in the dirt. Maybe you don’t. One thing I know for sure, if you don’t jump you will never know.
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Day 93
If you want to see a positive change in your life you have to actually be positive and act in a positive way. You can’t expect things to be positive. Life doesn’t work that way. Don’t wait for others to change things for you or for other humans to change to suit you. How does…
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Reading is Everything
If you don’t read you are missing out on a magic that is unmatched by any other force in the universe. There is nothing you can say to change my mind. Books are the gate and you have the key.
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Don’t Settle
I know that sometimes the comfortable situation is not the right situation. Do not stay in a place or with a person just because it is comfortable and familiar. I know there is logic in the devil you know theory. You know how to act and how the other will respond. You know how to…
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Be True
Do you have a dream? Yes you do. Think about it….yeah that…that thing you’ve always wanted to do. Be true to you. Follow that string of thought. Find the way to do that thing, to reach the end of that goal. Humans are happier with something to strive for or a dream to live.
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Read a Children’s Story Book
If you feel sad or bored read a children’s book. I just read Mary Poppins. So fun. Reading children’s books reminds me how it felt when my imagination was louder than my doubt. When I was less afraid and more adventurous. Suddenly my feet feel lighter.
Brendan & Lori O'Gara 