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6 months ago

When In Doubt, Make Soup One night a few months ago, two friends and I were feeling the onset of winter doldrums, and made a plan to address it with soup.

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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7 months ago

This Is Still Your First Time Pretend your life ended years ago, and you’ve been living in some sort of agreeable afterlife. You don’t have real problems anymore. There’s no stress, no war, no wor...

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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7 months ago

The Route You’re Looking for is Straight Through the Woods The next time you’re walking down a well-trodden footpath through a wooded area, give a thought to the first person (or deer) who took that route. Some determined being came through here when there…

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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8 months ago

The Alternative to Thinking All the Time One evening last week, I was sitting on my front stoop waiting for a friend to come over. I brought a book out with me, but instead of reading I just sat there and let my senses take in the scene. I…

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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8 months ago

Give Yourself a Ripcord to Pull When you’re worked up over some dilemma, talking about it with someone else can give you a whoosh of perspective, mostly because the other person’s mind isn’t stuck in a black cloud like yours is.…

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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8 months ago

Five Old School Things To Consider Doing Again Many of the older ways are better. And they're still there for us, if we want them.

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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8 months ago

How to Surf the Web in 2025, and Why You Should Just as it’s still possible (though seldom necessary) to ride a horse, it is still possible to surf the internet. It’s a thrill not yet lost to time. By “surfing the internet” I don’t just mean going…

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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9 months ago

You are another bull in the china shop If I think about all the attention and time I've spent on deliberate self-improvement over the years, almost all of it surrounds the reining-in of some very basic human inclinations -- like eating,…

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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9 months ago

What Five Days of Silence Taught Me Just before flying to Thailand, I spent five days at a retreat community called Hollyhock. It's a humble, rootsy little hamlet on the relatively remote Cortes Island. I knew very little about the…

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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9 months ago

The Dying Art We All Depend On A history buff friend of mine said that the art of medieval fencing was lost completely. At some point, the last person who really knew how to do it had died. There are old treatises that describe…

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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9 months ago

#WednesdayWisdom coming at you! This Week: How to Feel Better When You Don’t Know What’s Wrong www.raptitude.com/2020/06/how-... via #Raptitude

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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10 months ago

#WednesdayWisdom coming at you! This Week: The Truth is a Niche Interest for Human Beings ⚖️ www.raptitude.com/2025/05/the-... via #Raptitude

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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10 months ago

6 helpful reminders for the overwhelmed person One maddening tendency of any small electronic device is that whenever the battery is low, it wastes most of its remaining power beeping and flashing to tell you that battery is low. Similarly, the hu...

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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10 months ago

#WednesdayWisdom coming at you! This Week: How to Walk Through Walls 🚿❤️‍🩹 www.raptitude.com/2025/05/how-... via #Raptitude

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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10 months ago

How Billionaires Stole My Mind You may have fallen into the same trap as me, and I want to help us all get out. You use your phone as an alarm clock, and because you do, the first thing you learn, every morning, is that while you w...

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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11 months ago

How to Stop Eating Candy for Breakfast There’s a particular scene in an early episode of the Simpsons that I found especially relatable, as a ten-year-old whose main interest was candy. Bart and Lisa wake up the morning after Halloween, so...

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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11 months ago

The person you used to be still tells you what to do Once my friends and I reached legal bar-going age, I watched as we split into two factions. There were the people who went out to clubs to dance, and the people who went to pubs to sit and drink and t...

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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11 months ago

#WednesdayWisdom coming at you! This Week: Doing More is Often Easier 📈 www.raptitude.com/2025/04/doin... via #Rpatitude

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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1 year ago

#WednesdayWisdom coming at you! This Week: How to Start Doing the Things You Daydream About 💭❤️ www.raptitude.com/2025/03/how-... via #raptitude

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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1 year ago

#WednesdayWisdom coming at you! This Week: The Best Things in Life Don’t Make Themselves Happen 🥕🧹 www.raptitude.com/2025/03/the-... via Raptitude

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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1 year ago

#WednesdayWisdom coming at you! This Week:The Only Dependable Source of Happiness❣️ www.raptitude.com/2019/08/the-... via Raptitude

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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1 year ago

Managing Life is About Managing Friction Bananas used to be a lot more difficult to eat than they are now. The seeds were huge and plentiful, and ran throughout the flesh of the fruit, which itself was starchier, stringier, and less sweet. O...

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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1 year ago

What’s Taking Up Your Mental Bandwidth Right Now? Your mind is always pointed at something, and it matters what it is. If you spent most of your day preoccupied with thoughts about a past failed relationship, for example, that makes for a different k...

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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1 year ago

#WednesdayWisdom coming at you! This Week: Fix Three Broken Things 💔 www.raptitude.com/2025/01/fix-... via #Raptitude

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First Universalist Church of Rochester

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1 year ago

How to Think About Politics Without Going Insane The first thing every human learns about politics is that there are things you can say that will make people hate you, and things you can say that will make people approve of you. What those things ar...

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