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The Clock’s Ticking

I’ll be turning 30 in less than a week, and it’s starting to hit me how many goals I’ve still yet to accomplish. My aunt reminded me of a big one when she came to visit me a few months ago.

I apparently declared to her when I was younger that I would be a millionaire by the time I turned 30. She said I didn’t know how I was going to do it but that I knew it was going to happen. When she brought this to my attention recently, I asked her if I still had to hold myself to that statement since I’d completely forgotten about it. She informed me it still counted. Crap. Continue reading

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Gray Wood and Open Fields

I love barns. There’s just something about them that makes me feel warm and safe and calm. I think it might be because it brings about an idealized scene in my head that represents a simpler existence. A simpler way of being.

There was a period of time when I was dead set on being a farmer. I was a little kid, and my family was on our yearly vacation. We were driving through, I believe, Virginia, and I noticed a solitary barn in the distance, set a ways back from a beautiful farmhouse.

I announced that I’d love to be a farmer and live all the way out in the country. No one really took me seriously. Continue reading

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