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Mary E. Pearson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 14
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Boredom reigns on all levels. The rain is a welcome change. I have seen the pond swell and the creek surge. I press my palm against the glass, imagining the drops on my skin, imagining where they started out, where they will go, feeling them like a river, rushing, combining, becoming something greater than how they started out.
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I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)
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But I am more than a name. More than they tell me
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He believes me. But that is nothing new. He always did because I was a rule follower. I played by the rules he understood. But there are new rules now, ones he doesn't know yet. He'll learn. Just as I'm learning.
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Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.
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I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.
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it is amazin, she thinks, how simple appearances can be created - a rush, a smile, a new coat of paint, a slow, calm voice, a hug, a new dress - a resolve to keep out questions and cling to secrets
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... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .
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On a small planet, where minute follows minute, day follows day, year follows year, where tradition marches on with a deafening, orderly beat -sometimes the order is disturbed by a dreamer, an artist, a scribbler - sometimes the beat is changed one person at a time.
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When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?
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Words have longer lives than people.
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It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.
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One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin differently in a billion ways for one family.
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...and time becomes a forgotten detail.
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When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.
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We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.
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Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.
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My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later.
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I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.
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