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“That’s What Makes You Smart,” A Tribute to Dad, Part One.

by karenlee • April 10, 2015 • 7 Comments

My sister and I refer to traits from our father as our “tendencies.” Fortunately, many of his were exceptional: dad was funnier than hell; he was well-educated and smart as a whip; he was highly comfortable in social settings, with public speaking and on the phone; he could craft a beautiful, heartfelt letter or a…

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Living the questions

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything.”

~rainer maria rilke

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“I dwell in possibility.”

~emily dickinson

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The Choice

“An unhealed person can find offense in pretty much anything someone does. 

A healed person understands that the actions of others has absolutely nothing to do with them. 

Each day you get to decide which one you will be.”

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Her malevolency

Orah was a pistol. She was so fascinating that I created a family history site inspired by her powerful personality.

Come meet my great grandma, Orah Myrtle Smith:

The Malevolent Matriarch

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~ralph waldo emerson

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