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Safe & Cozy, Surrounded by Friends
In the last post I talked about how to accept help and be with people you can trust to support you. This post I want to talk about cozy ways to get together that help us bond, build trust, and have fun doing it. In my youth, the parties I had and friends who…
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Building a Firepit, Building Relationships: Getting Cozying by the Fire
The older I get the more I realize that I enjoy the cozy things more and more. There’s a line in a Jay-Z song that sums up how I feel, “I don’t want much, I drove every car. Some nice cooked food, some nice clean drawahs”. And I think, for me, there’s not much…
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Home Ec: Why Don’t Schools Teach How to Run a Household?
I’m a social worker and the population I work with is the chronically homeless. This means they’ve been homeless for 5 years or longer. Before I worked with this population I viewed them mostly as lost causes. They seemed to me so mentally ill that there wasn’t anyway for them to come back. Or…