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Sandra Castillo
Sep 292 min read
Words: The Architects of Your Reality
If you think words are simply labels for things that already exist, you're wrong. They are conjurers. They bring worlds to life or snuff...
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Sandra Castillo
Jul 241 min read
Magic In The Middle
I remember my high school Psychology teacher explaining that the human brain often overlooks information in the middle of something. ...
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Sandra Castillo
Jul 122 min read
Growing Golder
I was an angsty kid. I remember my grandmother saying something in Italian as she watched me bounce around her living room. When I...
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Sandra Castillo
Mar 244 min read
Unlocking Your Sixth Sense: The Key to Living a Fuller Life
went. -Omar Khayyam Into this Universe and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the...
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Sandra Castillo
Feb 43 min read
Above All, Love Yourself
From an online comment on Alain DeBotton's New York Times article, Why You Will Marry The Wrong Person: "A world authority on snow safety...
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Sandra Castillo
Jan 12 min read
Beginning Again
"Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning." John O'Donohue (January 1, 1956-January 4, 2008) I was in Barnes...
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Sandra Castillo
Dec 10, 20232 min read
Where The Heart Is
As I’ve entered life past fifty, memories press me at every turn. You would think I’m on my way to becoming one of those pitiful senior...
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Sandra Castillo
Nov 13, 20233 min read
The Simple and Profound Art of Love
It touches every life on the planet: the need to love and be loved. Its elusiveness has made it a mainstream topic of conversation for...
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Sandra Castillo
Sep 19, 20234 min read
The Power of Words
Words have power. We rarely stop to think about that because they’re so common. We use millions of them every day. Some of us use many...
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Sandra Castillo
Aug 22, 20233 min read
It Can Happen To You
I found love after five years of divorce. Actually, I found it after three decades, because I don’t consider that my married years were...
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Sandra Castillo
Jul 28, 20233 min read
The Summer of Me
Sure, we Gen X women take time for ourselves; in the evenings, we curl up with a good novel or schedule an after-work mani-pedi. We take...
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Sandra Castillo
Jul 18, 20233 min read
Generation X: To Be Continued...
Is it me, or does all the buzz revolve around the Baby Boomers and Millenials? I realized recently that Gen X often gets left out of many...
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Sandra Castillo
Jul 15, 20231 min read
Life is Not A Straight Line
I recently had a friend insist that I read The Alchemist. An adventure/fiction novel, it felt more like a fable. It tells the story of a...
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