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Written by RJ Lavallee
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Thursday, 25 March 2010 04:17 |
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I've often marveled at my children. During those moments when I'm able to remove myself from the fog of the day-to-day and look around to see what my children are doing – not just focusing on how they might be annoying me, or pushing my buttons – I stand in awe to see how they are growing up. My oldest recently showed me how that growing up does not only happen during the slow day-to-day lessons that children learn from waking up and going to school, or playing on the playground. Growing up sometimes happens in fits and starts, like gut-wrenching growth spurts.
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Written by RJ Lavallee
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 20:07 |
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Eleven years ago my wife gave me a call. She was out of town with a friend of hers. I was home with my friends. We were living a great life. Her career was starting to blossom. I was still trying to figure out how to define my career, and having a great time doing it. Many might argue that I'm still trying to define it. I was hanging out at my friend's photography studio. We were shooting a video for the band I was in. The band actually had a decent following. Maybe more importantly we were having a blast playing together. Right in the middle of it all my wife called the studio: cell phones were not as ubiquitous as they are now.
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Written by RJ Lavallee
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Monday, 08 February 2010 05:33 |
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I've been paralyzed by my anxieties lately. The current state of the economy has been the root of these anxieties; it touches everything from our schools to our little local recreational summer swim club, which are what what concerns me locally. What also worries me is everything from the future being laid for my children to the stresses of today that my parents have to wrestle with in what is supposed to be the relaxing twilight of their days. I know I bring a lot of this on myself. Like an ambulance chaser I can not keep myself away from Internet sites that spell out the hidden catastrophes that lurk around every corner, how the green shoots of the present recovery are an administration's cheer-leading in the face of a jobless recovery. Jobless recovery? How do people recover in a capitalist society without a job? I don't get it.
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