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    • 42 Ratings
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    Grace

    MARCH 8, 2012 8:21AM

    By LuminousMuse


    Topics: sorrow, joy, death, life, point reyes, grace

    • Editor's Pick
    • 50 Ratings
    • 2198 Views
    • 65 Comments
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    16 Years with an Alcoholic

    SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 9:04AM

    By Lunchlady 2


    Topics: life lessons, pain, love, family, hate, children, finding, seaching, sadness, joy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 662 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Kayak: One Word, One Life

    DECEMBER 6, 2010 10:53AM

    By Holly Robinson


    Topics: death, life, grief, parents, parenting, marriage, afterlife, navy, adventure, travel, joy, meaning, work, birthdays, mourning, philosophy of life

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 1886 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Piano lessons

    AUGUST 9, 2010 2:58PM

    By Kat Hudson


    Topics: joy, unemployment, jobless, lounge singer, dreams, music, instruments, harry hudson, kitten, casio, keyboard, tonilinn covington, delena covington, covingtons, utah, salt lake city, roosevelt, duchesne, piano lessons, dirty girl, writer, baltimore, kathryn hudson, kat hudson

    • Editor's Pick
    • 44 Ratings
    • 2687 Views
    • 57 Comments
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    dream

    APRIL 1, 2010 6:12AM

    By maria heng


    Topics: scars, self image, body image, joy, maturing, womanhood, injury, burns, recovery, identity, healing

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 6743 Views
    • 34 Comments
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    The Difference Between Happiness and Joy

    MARCH 25, 2010 1:02PM

    By Living with Caer


    Topics: happiness, belief/religion, health, true story, open call, family, books, belief and religion, joy, bipolar, zoloft, prozac, medication, tender mercies, crazy heart, robert duvall

    • Editor's Pick
    • 36 Ratings
    • 3343 Views
    • 45 Comments
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    Confessions of a Colored Negro Black African American...

    JANUARY 13, 2010 6:36PM

    By Jeanine T. Abraham


    Topics: open call, harriet tubman, joy, salvition, hope, slavery, history, african american, colored/negro, america, race

    • Editor's Pick
    • 87 Ratings
    • 3382 Views
    • 108 Comments
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    Rejection

    OCTOBER 21, 2009 2:00PM

    By marytkelly


    Topics: having enough, joy, humor, husband rejection, boy rejection, literary agent rejection, stuart smalley, life's humbling lessons, rejection

    • Editor's Pick
    • 74 Ratings
    • 4014 Views
    • 77 Comments
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    The Inner Journey I Had to Take: Two Weeks Alone on a Cliff

    SEPTEMBER 22, 2009 8:56AM

    By Lea Lane


    Topics: healing, solitude, sorrow, joy, grand manan island, new brunswick canada, for those feel loss

    • Editor's Pick
    • 56 Ratings
    • 2444 Views
    • 54 Comments
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    There's My Place in the Sun - Dakini Dancer's Memorial

    JULY 6, 2009 2:30AM

    By Lonnie Lazar


    Topics: open call, beta corps, death, life, dance, art, california dreamin, memorial service, dakini, vajra, tara, virgin of guadalupe, birth, spirit, joy, laughter, songs, singing, howling, trilling, hugs, tears, ashes, impermanence, wild women, going native, freaky, cake

    • Editor's Pick
    • 65 Ratings
    • 1729 Views
    • 46 Comments
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    Porch sitting and passings

    MAY 22, 2009 1:37PM

    By High Lonesome


    Topics: love, death, time passages, dakini dancer, joy, hope

    • Editor's Pick
    • 38 Ratings
    • 2077 Views
    • 50 Comments
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    Can I Bring You to Tears?

    FEBRUARY 11, 2009 1:22PM

    By Lonnie Lazar


    Topics: open call, beta corps, sports, basketball, autism, joy, triumph, freaky

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 3418 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    A Poet Who Happens to Have Asperger's

    JANUARY 30, 2009 9:29AM

    By Faith Paulsen


    Topics: family, children, disability, asperger's syndrome, poetry, joy, graduation

    • Editor's Pick
    • 28 Ratings
    • 2818 Views
    • 38 Comments
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    Drawing in Taverns

    DECEMBER 19, 2008 8:35AM

    By Gary Justis


    Topics: joy, concentration, solitude, taverns, drawing, art, true story

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 860 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Can cancer induce joy? Worked for me.

    NOVEMBER 19, 2008 10:07PM

    By Janis Jaquith


    Topics: health, colonoscopy, manifesting, joy, cancer

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