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{Re}st
There’s real wisdom in taking a hot bath. And, rest. We learned this recently perhaps as suckers or patsies. We were fairly convinced that we needed a new kickstart to getting to a healthier weight and spent an…
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{Re}grade
A week and a half ago, the Lowe’s truck came with three pallets of 40 pound bags of top soil. That’s a total of 8,000 pounds of soil for the backyard. We’ve moved about half of that. The problem is the grade in the…
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{Re}staurant
Here’s an again word you wouldn’t think was really an again word. Despite the fact that we’re trying to be adults and answer the question, “What’s for dinner?” with the words, “We’ve got food at home,” we come and go to…
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{Re}gress Redux
This is an addendum to my post from last night, mainly since I discovered this now rather than then. I received my Grammarly report, and, well, I’m a little impressed with myself. Grammarly says in this blog I use 625…
{Re}gress
I cannot believe that it’s taken me an entire year to find this site. It’s called Membean, and it helps students, second-language learners, test takes, and curious logophiles like me. Reflect upon re-, and your…
{Re}process
Reprocess means to process again or differently, typically in order to reuse it. This is used often to refer to nuclear fuel. But tonight I’m processing good words from friends and learning to think about myself…
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{Re}validate
On March 27, this year, I wrote about following my passions under the again {Re}tro. I was struggling with the idea and the meme: Follow your passion. I always feel as though these words are off kilter. That skew…
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{Re}st
I have to admire an author who pens words like this: Wearing better pants has become my favorite spiritual discipline. Emily P. Freeman, The Next Right Thing Reading The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for…
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{Re}mind
To remind is a sort of jogging or nudging of one’s memory by association or similarity. This morning I read this great article about wise quotes and remind me it did. The one that got my goat was the one: He who angers…