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I appreciate your uplift today Jen, notably with Bogin's lines. My temporary stall in positivity is picking up locomotion as I remind myself of Viktor Frankl's conclusion from his experiences at Auschwitz and Dachau: “We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.”

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I want to reread Man's Search for Meaning soon. Thank you for mentioning Frankl, Jim. We are riding the waves...

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Negative visualization is a good exercise. I've don't what's my worse fear and wrote about it. I think the key is to keep it mainly personal and later it may be possible to develop a wider subtext.

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I love the not knowing as the prompt - I feel like those are the best prompts. Compassionate curiosity is my ultimate goal in any writing (though I don't think I achieve it often enough).

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Thanks, Jen.

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Thanks for reading, Steve. Here we are.

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"Take some action, no matter how small, that makes you proud." Yes. Each of us can do that. Thanks, Jen.

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And you are doing it with your beautiful letters, Nancy.

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Thank you for this, Jen! <3

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