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This is Our Story

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  • Cycle-of-Life Season
    • 1 Dormancy
      • Week 01: Human Worth
      • Week 02: Universality
      • Week 03: Justice
      • Week 04: Suffering
      • Week 05: Humility
      • Week 06: Avoiding Harm, or Evil
      • Week 07: Engaging the World
      • Week 08: Order
    • 2 Sowing
      • Week 09: Preferences (Desire)
      • Week 10: Autonomy
      • Week 11: Life as a Journey
      • Week 12: Renewal
      • Week 13: Hope and Optimism
      • Week 14: Self-esteem (Self-worth begins)
      • Week 15: Self-confidence
      • Week 16: Independence (Self-competence)
    • 3 Growth
      • Week 17: Our Future
      • Week 18: Honesty
      • Week 19: Obligation in the World
      • Week 20: Duty toward Others
      • Week 21: Awakening
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      • Week 23: Individuality and Community
    • 4 Ripening
      • Week 24: Honoring
      • Week 25: Excellence
      • Week 26: An Ethic of Generous Service
      • Week 27: Openness
      • Week 28: Transcendence
      • Week 29: Wisdom
      • Week 30: Caring
      • Week 31: Courage
      • Week 32: Citizenship
    • 5 Interlude
      • Week 33: Grounding and Well-Roundedness
      • Week 34: Assertiveness
      • Week 35: Restoration
    • 6 Fulfillment
      • Week 36: Creativity
      • Week 37: Truth
      • Week 38: Love
      • Week 39: Faith
      • Week 40: Rebirth
    • 7 Assessing
      • Week 41: Home and the Past
      • Week 42: Vitality
      • Week 43: Self-actualization and Integrity
      • Week 44: Connectedness
      • Week 45: Empowerment
      • Week 46: Equality
    • 8 Harvest and Celebration
      • Week 47: Flourishing
      • Week 48: Focus and Perspective
      • Week 49: Change
      • Week 50: Finding Our Niche
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      • Week 53: Celebration and Remembrance
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Week 41: Home and the Past

Embracing the Past

Embracing the Past

Whatever our past has been, it is ours. Our best strategy is to embrace it, nurture it, reconcile with it, and create our future as we wish it to be. The difficulties of someone's early life may ... Read More about Embracing the Past

Healing

Returning home, taking comfort, making peace with and embracing the past all make healing possible. Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. [Kahlil Gibran, The ... Read More about Healing

Taking Pride

Taking Pride

One kind of pride lifts us up; the other brings us down. “Pride is an interesting emotion because it simultaneously focuses on the self and on others.” The essential difference between healthy ... Read More about Taking Pride

Returning Home – Reuniting – Reconciling – Reclaiming

Returning Home – Reuniting – Reconciling – Reclaiming

Coming home gives us a chance to take another look at people and places we once saw through different eyes. If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always ... Read More about Returning Home – Reuniting – Reconciling – Reclaiming

Reconsidering

Reconsidering

Over a lifetime, we have plenty of time to think things over - or so it seems. Reconsidering is an aspect of being open. By reconsidering, we can learn from our mistakes, adapt to change, make ... Read More about Reconsidering

Taking Comfort from Home

Taking Comfort from Home

Memories of home can bring great comfort. Home is the nicest word there is. [source unclear] Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling. [attributed to Cecelia Ahern] When I go home, it's an easy way ... Read More about Taking Comfort from Home

Home and Our Debt to the Past

Home and Our Debt to the Past

Home is where we were during our formative years. In large measure, home made us what we are. Home refers to the place, physical and spiritual, where we spent our formative years. For some of us, ... Read More about Home and Our Debt to the Past

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