It started early, this healthy competition. Looking for the best, the top, the fastest, the smartest. Our schools and our culture promoting competition in order to inspire us to be our best, to reach for the stars, to be number one.
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I wonder if somewhere along the way we stop asking and wondering how people feel about things? What makes your heart sing? What are the things you love?
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Remember leaving the Ideal Stationary Store with a full bag of candy after walking in with only a quarter?
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We look forward to the arrival of local sweet corn as if it were a holiday we had been waiting for all year. Our taste buds recall the splendor of local tomatoes throughout the dark of winter.
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I’ve always had a bit of an adversity to the word ‘best’-best cup of coffee, best basketball team, best day ever. But I must say, I was blest to grow up with a ‘best’ friend since I was five.
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What could be more peaceful than sipping a hot cup of tea, with honey and lemon, a quiet morning and the spirited dance of hummingbirds?
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There are so few locals living in their ancestral homes, and those who remain seem to now live on the outskirts-often in more ways than one- with some bit of gratitude to be able to live here at all.
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