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  • About Me: Updated for 2024
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    • Who I am (2019)….
    • About Me: Updated for 2024
  • Blog posts to look back at
    • Subway Tunnel Guy
    • Vera’s Alibi: Fandango’s Story Starter
    • Wordle #326: No Woods for Me!
    • Weather: Mindlovermisery’s Menagerie Friday Faithful
    • Aunt Betty’s Gift: It’s Thursday’s Six Sentence Story Link Up!
    • Evidence of a Gross Bathroom…The email.
    • She did what?: a fictional, short story
    • Sam’s Surprise!: Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!
    • Deserted Streets: Fandango’s Story Starter
    • Poetry
      • W3: The Hawk
      • Ovi Poetry Challenge: FREEDOM is your inspiration
      • My Broken Heart: a poem
      • Seasons of Life: #TheWildness. Day 13.
      • We – Christine and David – Couplets – D’Verse Poets Pub
      • The Bicycle: A Poem (Villanelle form) – W3 Prompt #58: Wea’ve Written Weekly
      • Dirt: a poem – Twiglet #328
      • #TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 323, 6/6/2023
      • Poetics: Quality Poems – Craftsmanship
      • My Mother’s Scarf: a poem
      • Nature Haibun: After the rain
      • All About Bloggers: A poem
      • Day on the Train: D’Verse Poet’s Pub
  • Stine Miniatures on Etsy
    • Color My World Miniature
    • Modern Home Miniature
    • Asian Experience Miniature
    • My Perfect Pink Miniature
    • Spectacular new miniature: Vacation Villa d’Orient
    • My Baby Blue Miniature
    • Perfect Gardener Miniature
    • My Pink Party Miniature
    • Me and My Girls Miniature
    • New Balcony Miniature!
    • New Air B & B Miniature!
    • SABRINAMONIQUE44128 on Dec 8, 2022
    • My New Pink Apartment Miniature
    • SABRINAMONIQUE44128 on Dec 16, 2022
    • Poolside Penthouse Apartment Miniature!
    • My newest miniature
    • Welcome Home Miniature:
    • Vacation Home: the new miniature!
    • Stine Miniatures on Etsy!
    • New Miniature for sale on Etsy!
    • Building Continues….
    • A New Kind of Miniature!
    • New Miniatures Available
    • Welcome to Santorini Island
    • Christmas Miniatures are here!
    • Two Bedroom Miniature
    • Indian Themed Original Miniature
    • Miniature for sale
    • My Miniatures are out in the world!
    • It is done! My new miniature
    • Miniatures…starting early
    • Miniatures!!
    • Grand opening: Stinewriting on Etsy
    • Miniature 2.5 story flat
    • Check it out! Another new miniature!
    • New Miniature!
    • Loft apartment miniature
    • Brand New Miniature!
    • Book Store miniature
    • New Miniatures on Etsy!
    • New miniature completed
    • Study at Home Miniature
    • Miniature Book Store
    • A New Miniature is done.
    • Color My World Miniature
    • New Miniature is done!
    • Modern Home Miniature
    • Miniatures
    • Asian Experience Miniature
    • My finished Coffee Shop model
    • My Perfect Pink Miniature
    • Spectacular new miniature: Vacation Villa d’Orient
    • My Baby Blue Miniature
    • Perfect Gardener Miniature
    • My Pink Party Miniature
    • Me and My Girls Miniature
    • New Balcony Miniature!
    • New Air B & B Miniature!
    • My New Pink Apartment Miniature
    • Poolside Penthouse Apartment Miniature!
    • Welcome Home Miniature:
    • Vacation Home: the new miniature!
    • New Miniature for sale on Etsy!
    • A New Kind of Miniature!
    • Welcome to Santorini Island
    • Two Bedroom Miniature
    • Miniature for sale
    • It is done! My new miniature
    • Grand opening: Stinewriting on Etsy
    • Miniature 2.5 story flat
    • Loft apartment miniature
    • Book Store miniature
    • New miniature completed
    • Miniature Book Store
    • A New Miniature is done.
    • New Miniature is done!
    • Miniatures
    • My finished Coffee Shop model
  • Book Reviews
    • Book Review: If Angels Fall (Thriller)
    • Book Review: Julia & Bo Bo (Children’s story)
    • Book Review: Find Her Alive
    • Book Review: Proud To Be Me
    • Book Review: Chickenshit: Everything you need to know but would rather not (Fantasy)
    • Book Review: A Fighting Chance: A 40-Year Journey from My Birth until My Brother’s Death
    • Book Review: “The Happiness Triangle” (The Equilibrist series: Vol. 1)
    • Book Review: Wasteland
    • Book Review: Monster’s Dream
    • Book Review: Deadly Games
    • Book Review: Kill Your Brother
    • Book Review: The House Mate
    • Book Review: Unheard: The Story of Anna Winslow
    • Book Review: The Secrets We Left Behind
    • Book Review: I, Black Pharaoh: Golden Age of Triumph
    • Book Review: Fleeting Chills
    • Book Review: Judge, Jury, Executioner
    • Book Review: The Liar’s Girl
    • Book Review: A Child’s Spiritual Journey
    • Book Review: The Silent Widow
    • Book Review: When You Find Me
    • Book Review: Mother Knows Best
    • Book Review: Find Us
    • Book Review: Buried Deep
    • Book Review: a must read!
    • Book Review: Beware the Cuckoo
    • Book Review – Murder: It’s All In Your Head
    • The Wives: Book Review
    • Book Review: Before the Ruins
    • Book Review: Behind the Blue Elevator
    • Gathering Dark: Book Review
    • The Haunting of Gallagher Hotel: Book Review
    • Book Review: “I Will Never Leave You”
    • Book Review: Everything We Keep
    • Book Review: Anger is an Acid
    • Portrait of a Man: Book Tour
    • Anger is An Acid: Book Tour!
    • Book Review: The Failsafe Query
    • Being a Book Reviewer
    • Book Review – Eucalyptus Street: Green Curse
    • Dead Woman Scorned Book Review
    • The Outsider’s Mind: Book Review
    • Book Review: The Marriage Pact
    • Median Gray: Book Review
    • Altered Helix: Book Review
    • Dead After Midnight: Book Review
    • Book Review: The Teacher
    • Book Review: Fantasticland
    • “Return Addresses” Book review
    • Book Review: The Butterfly Garden
    • Crazy Book Reviews!
    • Book Review: Ghost Eaters
    • Book Review: Fairy Tale
  • Audible Book Reviews
    • Audible Book Reviews
    • Vicious: Audible Book Review
  • From my desk: 11/30/2025 – The List of Challenges

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November 21, 2019 cbialczak1971

Shikata Ga Nai Is the Japanese Art of Letting Go—and It’s Glorious — Fuel for my soul

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