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Mar 4

Let’s Get Coffee

How To Love Life Despite Anxiety Parking In a Crowded Business District — I helped my almost-16-year-old daughter practice driving on a commercial street. Am I the only one who thinks “Oh Lord, where will I park,” when approaching an address in a business district? This is stressful for me and a metaphor for other parts of life. I’m stressed parking, stressed waking…

Ideas

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Let’s Get Coffee
Let’s Get Coffee
Ideas

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Feb 17

Chances

An Audacious Dry Martini and Fried Chicken Salad Encouraged Me — The martini arrives as I sit at the bar next to random people I’m not looking at. It’s been some time since I’ve written or posted something new. A few sips into what seems like a quart of gin in a glass, I start to relax. And then I feel…

Psychology

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Chances
Chances
Psychology

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Dec 23, 2022

Long Game

…Short Game — In Berkeley at a restaurant bar having a Manhattan, attempting to write. Shifting from awareness of the uncompromisingly yet unassumingly beautiful hostess to an attractive brown-haired woman with a suitcase talking to an older friend at the bar with a “sweetie” who shows up and disappears again. It’s a short…

Psychology

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Long Game
Long Game
Psychology

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Sep 14, 2022

Square Peg

Rittenhouse Square — Is there anything like it where I’m from? — Of course there is. Only in that first moment seeing others walking, reading, I feel something wondrous, new. And of course it is. In such places I find me Why’s it matter? Rittenhouse in Philly vs. at home in afternoon sun? Here I’m surrounded by unknown or different experience, I‘m…

Psychology

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The Square
The Square
Psychology

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Aug 31, 2022

Bonus Special Story

A Man Is Playing Pinball Behind Me — I did not expect this. Sitting at a wine bar I’ve never been to before, alone but for the proprietor. Until a short man comes in and starts talking on the phone about how he was hired as a temp by Tesla before going to work for a lumber company…

History

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Bonus Special Story
Bonus Special Story
History

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Aug 31, 2022

Trending…Check It Out. Meaning of Engagement.

What Next? A Hike to Nowhere in Particular But Somewhere With Someone In Mind.

Psychology

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Trending…Check It Out. Meaning of Engagement.
Trending…Check It Out. Meaning of Engagement.
Psychology

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Aug 21, 2022

Truths On the Edge of Sleep

As I begin to drift off I feel a choice between panic and acceptance — My guard goes down as I relax — experiencing myself instead of presenting me. Alone. Afraid before the universe, it’s not so bad, why can’t it last? Upon awakening, I’m momentarily unaware of where I am, and I feel joyful. Imagine that. Just happy, not happy despite the issues, or…

Sleep

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Truths On the Edge of Sleep
Truths On the Edge of Sleep
Sleep

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Aug 15, 2022

An Imagined Encounter: Can You Catch Feelings Without Losing Your Soul?

She and I happened to talk at a party. My wife laughed with other friends while her date chatted up two twenty-five-year-olds by the snack table. — As we talked I kept noticing her cleavage in her low-cut dress. My wife glanced over and gave me that extra-bright smile she gives when she sees I may be interested in someone. Ah how I love her! As Angie and I continued to talk I knew she was aware…

Psychology

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An Imagined Encounter: Can You Catch Feelings Without Losing Your Soul?
An Imagined Encounter: Can You Catch Feelings Without Losing Your Soul?
Psychology

14 min read


Feb 22, 2022

Just In Time

Maybe a second before the end I saw through it

Psychology

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Just In Time
Just In Time
Psychology

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Jan 11, 2022

Open For Business on a Winter Day

As I sat at an outdoor cafe without a mask — …the sun shone down hard. And I realized I’m as open to others as I choose to be. I could have come here a thousand times to this one. Yet I could have sat closed in my own thoughts. I could be here one time and this time open my…

Culture

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Open For Business on a Winter Day
Open For Business on a Winter Day
Culture

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Kent Mitchell

Kent Mitchell

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Traveler, Writer, Designer. Seeker of Truth.

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