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A nation that has acceptable levels of air pollution.
In a science-fiction comedy I am reading, the United States of America is flatteringly called "oxygenation nation."
by but for December 6, 2017
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Healing oneself by working with words and letting them order and clarify the way one feels, thinks, and acts.
After a major television network offered to interview me, but then cancel the interview, lowered my self-concept, confused me, made me feel powerless—even helpless, but not hopeless.

Soon after I started to edit the index of a book I'm writing, working with words made me feel increasingly better.

Working with words balanced my emotions and allowed me to feel, think, and act correctly again. I call that word therapy.
by but for March 8, 2018
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Healing oneself by working with words and letting them order and clarify the way one feels, thinks, and acts.
After a major television network offered to interview me, but then cancel the interview, that series of events first raised but then lowered my self-concept, confused me, made me feel powerless—even helpless, but not hopeless.

Soon after I started to edit the index of a book I'm writing, I began to feel increasingly better.

Working with words balanced my emotions and allowed me to feel, think, and act correctly again. I call that word therapy.
by but for March 8, 2018
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The way interacting with younger people—more so children—automatically and almost always unknowingly transmit their youth to older people.
Though I taught high school and college, I love teaching second graders so much because they are tender and interacting with them makes me feel so hopeful. I call interacting with younger people—specially children—youth transmission.
by but for December 24, 2017
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A method which takes the listener of a song back to when it was a hit.
Reality designer, Oulda Veyin, realized that listening to songs from her teenage years instantly took her brain and body back to those days and that the song time travel's effect lasted for days.
by but for October 24, 2017
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What words are.
All thoughts are invisible. They become audible when spoken and visible when written or typed. Words make thoughts audible, or visible—thus legible ( legible thoughts ) .
by but for September 26, 2018
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What written words are.
Thoughts are invisible, they become audible when spoken and visible when written or typed. Words make thoughts audible, or visible—thus legible ( legible thoughts ) .
by but for September 26, 2018
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