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#131 I stalk beliefs. I lurk around the corners of my mind, listening to what I think and to what I say, ready to pounce on a belief when it appears. When I catch one, I investigate it. Becoming as open and undefended as I can, I try the belief on. What is its...

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#130 Regarding last week’s Notes, a reader wrote: “May your spring bring much beauty as we try and weather all the craziness – I fear the Supreme Court ruling on the health care plan, my synagogue board choice for an assistant rabbi, the war in...

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#129 I have been greatly disturbed by the attempts, across the nation, to disenfranchise certain voters. I have actually been quite distressed about it. So I’ve been asking for guidance. All of the various tools that I use to discern that guidance tell me the...

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#128 If you go to my Web site, to Where is Jett, and then scroll down to the bottom and click on ’11 Autumn, you’ll see a picture of my children’s birth mother, my former partner, Vicky. Vicky died on Sunday. Her dying was several days long, and was...

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#127 About #126, you said: “I walk around a lake almost every day, and I used to notice that on some days everyone I encountered was smiling, open and friendly. Other days they were off in their own worlds, unreachable. I wondered whether this was some mood...

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#126 Smile when you’re alone or with others, keep a little smile on your face. (try it while you’re driving) Love the one you’re with in the grocery store, on the bus, on the street, at work, wherever. Be Glad to be you, on this Earth, at this time....