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By Brian Posted on January 19, 2021January 19, 2021

It’s Tuesday, Again

Just another day of the week

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Categories: Personal JournalTags: moody, Musings, pandemic blues, tuesday
By Brian Posted on January 18, 2020January 21, 2020

Finding My Center

What do you do to let go of stress in your life?

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Categories: Health, Personal JournalTags: mindfulness, running, stress, yoga, Yoga with Adrian, YouTube Yoga
By Brian Posted on January 8, 2020January 17, 2020

Finding Strength

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Categories: Personal JournalTags: Comic Books, current affairs, despair, Hope, Inspiration, Jesse Custer, Preacher, Vertigo
By Brian Posted on August 17, 2019January 17, 2020

It’s the little things

“Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry

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Categories: Personal JournalTags: add, ADHD, Brian Mains, confessional, gifs, giga coaster, graphics, hyperfocus, Kings Island, me, Orion, Random, sharing, Work
By Brian Posted on July 4, 2019January 17, 2020

How to Live a Year in One Week

On Saturday morning, I sat in a veterinarian’s office and held my sweet, crazy Gracie as she took her last breath. That night, my fiancée put her arms around me … Continue reading How to Live a Year in One Week

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Categories: Personal JournalTags: fiancée, home buying, Life, loss, love, relationships
By Brian Posted on July 1, 2019January 17, 2020

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole” – Roger Caras

Or . . . “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” ― Will Rogers

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Categories: Personal JournalTags: age, cancer, dog training, dogs, Gracie, grief, lessons, Life, loss, love, loved ones, pets
By Brian Posted on June 11, 2019June 27, 2019

June 11, 2019: ‘Sunshine, sunshine, it’s fine’

“I feel it in my skin, warming up my mind,
Sometimes you gotta give in to win,
I love the days when it shines, whoa let it shine”
~ “Sunshine” by Atmosphere

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Categories: GratitudeTags: Against the Wind, birthdays, daily gratitude, Facebook, Skyline Chili, summer
By Brian Posted on June 10, 2019June 12, 2019

June 10, 2019: Return of the Grat(itude)

“I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” ― Carl Sandburg

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Categories: Gratitude, LifeTags: Akron, Breweries, Canton, chasing sunsets, Dayton, Eagle Up 24 Hour Ultra, Fiance, fifty west, Jean-Robert Cavel, legos, Ohio, Thirsty Dog, tornado
By Brian Posted on May 20, 2019June 10, 2019

May 20, 2019: Gratitude in Action

Leaping mole hills before they become mountains in a single bound

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Categories: Gratitude, LifeTags: ADHD, Against the Wind, daily gratitude, Family, fiancée, friends, goals, Grateful, Gratitude, Gratitude list, hyperfocus, niece, old friends, summer, weather, WooBox, Work
By Brian Posted on May 15, 2019May 20, 2019

May 15, 2019: Gratitude Just Below the Surface

“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful… This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking” ~ Agnes De Mille

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Categories: Gratitude, LifeTags: Against the Wind, daily gratitude, Gratitude, Gratitude list, storytelling
By Brian Posted on May 14, 2019January 17, 2020

A Beautiful Rant Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

“If I cannot swear in heaven I shall not stay there” ~ Mark Twain

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Categories: Personal JournalTags: Billy Nye, Global Warming, HBO, Humor, John Oliver, Language, Last Week Tonight, Laughter, Ranting
By Brian Posted on May 14, 2019January 17, 2020

Dancing with Bees

Finding my flow

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Categories: Personal JournalTags: ADHD, featured, Rooted Yoga, Solutions, yoga

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