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Mary E. Pearson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 14
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Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?
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Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.
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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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...and time becomes a forgotten detail.
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It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.
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I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.
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Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?
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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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I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.
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When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?
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Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.
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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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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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Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.
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Picture yourself five years from now. Where do you want to be? Remember that. Every day. That's how you'll get there.
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It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.
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I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.
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I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)
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I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)
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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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