Writing about people, life, and whatever seems worth noticing along the way.
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In Florida, a lizard can sprint across the sidewalk in the middle of a conversation and nobody pauses.
The wildlife has been fully incorporated into the neighborhood.
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Five friends can genuinely want to get together and still need eleven days to choose a day.
The dinner is the easy part.
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I like having goals.
But not everything I enjoy needs one.
Sometimes getting a little better is enough.
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Any movie over three hours should come with an intermission.
That isn’t nostalgia.
That’s basic planning.
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Instant replay has made sports more accurate.
It has also taught every fan to delay celebrating until three camera angles and a rules analyst confirm that joy is allowed.
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The moment you own even one share of a company, the news changes.
Yesterday: business headline.
Today: Why is management doing this to us?
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The group photo process:
Everyone gathers.
Someone says, “One more.”
Nobody believes it.
Three more are taken.
Someone asks to see them.
A second round begins.
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Changing your mind gets treated like admitting defeat.
I think being presented with better information and saying, “Yeah, I was wrong about that,” is one of the more underrated signs of confidence.
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One of life’s underrated wins is getting somewhere and realizing you have a really good seat.
Restaurant.
Game.
Concert.
Airport gate.
Doesn’t matter.
You know immediately when you got lucky.
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If a text exchange requires twelve messages, three clarifications, and a screenshot...
we may have accidentally invented the phone call again.
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There can be an entire empty room available.
And somehow two people will still choose the doorway as the perfect place to stop and have a conversation.
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I like people who know a lot about something I know almost nothing about.
Give me ten minutes with someone who is genuinely fascinated by their subject and there’s a good chance I’ll start caring about it too.
Enthusiasm is contagious.
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Some things actually deserve the hype.
The rare movie.
The great live sporting event.
A place you finally visit.
I like being surprised when something everyone praised turns out to be every bit as good as advertised.
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“Let’s just go to the beach” sounds like a very simple sentence.
Then come the chairs.
The towels.
The sunscreen.
The cooler.
The bags.
At some point you realize you are not going to the beach.
You are relocating for four hours.
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Someone arrives.
Someone notices.
Something moves.
We see it happen all the time without giving it much thought.
But sometimes a few inches can tell us something we never heard anyone say.
This week’s Where Love Returns:
"The Space We Make"
Read it here: kellystorms.com/p/the-space-…
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