Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
What lifestyle shifts feel important to me as I prepare to enter the Fall season?
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
We all appreciate a much-needed boost when the limb is higher than we can reach!
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
when navigating life transitions, it’s easy to hold onto things we should let go. oftentimes, we try to bring what’s worked in the past into our new season. but sometimes, a new phase in life requires us to pick up new habits, opportunities, routines, and mindsets. to do that, we have to willingly release certain things—but that release can be painful, especially when we’re freeing what’s been beneficial in previous seasons of our lives. it could be anything from: a morning routine we’ve done for years but that no longer works when we have a child. a job that catapulted our growth but is no longer pushing us because we’ve learned all we can at the company. a mindset that helped us thrive in our singleness but isn’t beneficial in a committed relationship.
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
The Corner by David Simon and Edward Burns (1997, Non Fiction) is a tome of a nonfiction novel, leaving me to wonder how many pages must a novel be before you consider it to be a tome? How do you go about reading such a volume? This novel was 543 pages and took me twenty- four days to read. The only rule I had in tackling it was to read a bit of it each day. This novel is broken into the four seasons. The premise is simple– former Baltimore Sun reporter Simon (the driving force behind HBO’s “The Wire”, which takes place in the same area) and reporting partner Ed Burns (formerly employed by both the Baltimore City Police and the Baltimore school district) spent a year living on or around one of the busiest drug markets in Baltimore. They simply report what they see. In doing so, they relate the stories of the people who inhabit this world. The narrative is occasionally broken up by Simon and Burns’ musings about the war on drugs. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, it’s hard to disagree with their belief that the war has failed, at least in Baltimore. The Corner reads like a tragic novel, one that offers hope we will eventually end this “war on the underclass.” This novel was so powerful that in 2000 it was made into an award-winning HBO six-part miniseries, which is just as powerful and moving as the novel.
