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Magic Smagik
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. -Nelson Mandela I was having a hard time making a decision this week and always find it interesting when that happens. “What are you afraid of?” I asked myself, as my analytical/practical side duked it out with my intuition/heart/gut. “Maybe this is a time for you…
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Camp
I decided to send myself to camp for my 37th birthday. Not really camp, but sort of. “Are you going to have to sit in a circle naked?” my coworker asked last week, after I told him why I would be out of town for two weeks. “I don’t think so.” I said, though I…
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Feet aka Heart
“I have one foot out the door, but he doesn’t know where he’s going,” a co-worker told me last week, over a cup of coffee and a donut from the craft service table, as we stood, backs to a cold wind that whipped dust in our scarf and goggle covered faces, waiting for the director…
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Madam Secretary.
Last week I heard the title “Secretary of the Future” while listening to Marketplace on NPR and I fell in love with the idea. In a country with a Secretary of Defense and one of State, why not have one whose purpose it is to look forward to where current policies and strategies may lead? …
Smagik is Claire Sandrin’s personal blog of writing and photographs dedicated to finding beauty in the everyday. It covers everything from how to brand yourself as a creative, making a professional pivot in middle age, travels to Amsterdam, and recipes for grain free chocolate zucchini cake. Join me for the adventure that is this life!
