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      <image:title>Blog - What does the well hold? - Carl Jung once said, “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” Ever the explorer of the inner well of dreams, Carl Jung, believed that exploring the inner world is a way of awakening to a great sense of the world. It’s a paradox.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>yours and ours, were planted not so long ago. They got us started. What have we done with our brief time so far — with these seeds that carried such promise? I think of this often now.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I have the power to remove the hurt today, this moment, to love today without the hurt, and to act as one who loves not as one who hurts. You can forgive yourself today. You can! Today is a great opportunity.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>… once said: “A book must be the ax for the frozen sea inside us.” I’m still writing my story, still separating and returning. As I work on stories and on life, I hoist the ax. I let go of what’s inside. It comes out in words, and I am borne anew.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book Launch Party</image:title>
      <image:caption>with Kevin Kelly</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>With Colleen Olle</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Hey, hey, the gang's all here!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book Launch Party</image:title>
      <image:caption>With Sandy &amp; Brian Lee</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>with Dr Carol Peyser</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book Launch Party</image:title>
      <image:caption>and afterward, a huge thanks to organizers Vibha, David, Ash, Margo, Sue, Steve, Tice, Bill, Sandy, Tim, Korie, &amp; Cheryl ... dinner at La Lanterna, Nov 05, 2026</image:caption>
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