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Too much happiness

Too much happiness?

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Michael

The everyday miracles happen so fast. It’s hard to catch them. Carly is 2.4 years young and communicating with my wife and with Barbora, our au pair, mostly in Czech, and with dear old ta-ta mostly in English without one ...

Golden rule

Changing The World From The Inside Out

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Michael

This must be the way European Jews felt as the roots of the Nazi holocaust began cracking through the pavement we call civil society; this emanate premonition of some unknown but certain horror rising. I remember reading the memoirs of ...

Holloween2016

This is the moment…

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Michael

Wearing a blue satin ruffled skirt, a T-shirt with a heart and an infectious smile Carly Elizabeth swayed into my home office, took my finger and walked me to the closet all the way across the house. She placed my ...

Pleasure Bonds

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Michael

The “Glue” That Attaches & Bonds Human RelationshipsJames W. Prescott, Ph.D., Joseph Chilton Pearce and Michael MendizzaIntroductionThis essay precedes, compliments and supports Sensory Deprivation and the Developing Brain. It develops a scientific framework that establishes pleasure as the glue that ...

Quite hugs

Quiet Hugs

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Michael

Morning and Muse often arrive together. Today their light cast long shadows across the wood floor. The house was still. Up before the others I sipped fresh coffee from a white cup. Quietly the glass door to my home-office opened. ...

Enlightenment is

Enlightenment Is…

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Michael

I hope every parent is knocked off their chair by the astonishing capacity their child exhibits every day. Recall – 700 new neural connections every second and each branch touches 10,000 to 20,000 other branches. Unbelievable! The environment is the ...