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    <strong>Venn-Ikigai made on Canva.com by Danielle Nease</strong>
    Happy ikigai to you!
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • December 17, 2020 1:30 am

    Ikigai is a traditional Japanese concept that basically means “a reason for being.”

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    December is a strange month
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • December 16, 2020 1:30 am

    December is a month surrounded by, and defined by holidays…

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    The Bill of Rights, the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, was ratified December 15, 1791. Image courtesy Creative Outlet
    That word does not mean what you think...
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • December 15, 2020 1:30 am

    I keep thinking of that line when I hear a word used incorrectly – which is almost every day…

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    2020 as a five-act play
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • December 14, 2020 1:30 am

    Years from now we may regale friends with tales of what we did during the crazy year of 2020…

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    Word salad? Image courtesy MetroCreativeConnection
    Over-reaching and under-performing
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • December 11, 2020 1:30 am

    There’s an old saying in political circles – Republicans over-reach and Democrats under-perform…

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    Doom scrolling and Zillow Surfing
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • December 10, 2020 1:30 am

    If you want bad news you know where to find it. And thanks to algorithms, it will find you.

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    The upside-down, inside-out economy
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • December 9, 2020 1:30 am

    Like everything else, it’s difficult to tell where the economy is when you are in the middle of it.

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    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • December 8, 2020 1:30 am

    What we have in common is vastly more than what sets us apart…

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    Image courtesy Creative Outlet
    Is everything political?
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • December 4, 2020 1:30 am

    Looking at any issue, its costs and impacts, through the appropriate lens can give us insight…

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    Tacoma grows on you
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • December 3, 2020 1:30 am

    With most of the wonders of Tacoma, you have to get off the main thoroughfares and look for them.

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    Image courtesy Creative Outlet
    November 2020 recap
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • December 2, 2020 1:30 am

    Just another typical month in 2020…

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    Smart or rich?
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • December 1, 2020 1:30 am

    Being “smart” and being “rich” are of course not mutually exclusive – but they aren’t necessarily related either.

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    We are not red and blue states, and we are not even the 50 states, we are The United States. Image from https://www.mathworksheets4kids.com/
    United we stand, divided we fall
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • November 30, 2020 1:30 am

    If there is anything we in the United States have become in the past ten or so years, it is divided.

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