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  • Aging,  Creativity

    The Story We Carry and the Ones We Let Go

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    story memories have weight

    The Story We Carry and the Ones We Let Go - What If Memories Had Weight?Not the kind you can step on a scale and measure—but something else.…

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    Ardis Mayo
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    LOST AND FOUND – A CAT TALE

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    An outcast—neglected, homeless and starving— she sat waiting, eyes alert to the feeder where perched the possibility of breakfast on a cold March day. 

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    How to Leave a Legacy of Story

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    The importance of recording your story to leave as a legacy for your descendants, based on the metaphors of a hike towards a waterfall.

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