loneliness
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A boy and his father were walking along a road when they came across a large stone. The boy said to his father, “Do you think if I use all my strength, I can move this rock?” His father answered, “If you use all your strength, I am sure you can do it.” The boy…
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August 27, 2023 Dear Wonder Woman, From the time I was around eight years old, I began to do something different after school. Usually I would walk from Riverside Elementary School to my Dad’s medical office. They were close to each other, and Dad’s office was a safer place to be than my own home.…
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Some years ago, writer Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker shared the story of his three-year-old daughter’s imaginary friend. The name she gave her imaginary friend was Charlie Ravioli, and Charlie Ravioli was always too busy to play. One day Adam Gopnik and his wife watched their little girl punch a number into her imaginary…
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Spanish poet Antonio Machado writes, Last night as I was sleeping I dreamt—marvelous error!— that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are you coming to me, water of a new life that I have never drunk? * Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous…
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Seventy-seven years ago, in 1945, a Unitarian minister named Everett Moore Baker said something. He was speaking to his church which happened to be on Cleveland’s East Side, First Unitarian. He said, “I believe that we have an obligation to make available to more people the religious ideals of our church. I believe that more…
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