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Tag: Emotional Intelligence

  • Things for Which I Am Grateful

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    Victor Cypert
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    I am grateful for my friends who do not judge me. It took me the better part of a lifetime to realize that true friends don’t judge and don’t offer advice. I had to cut a lot of people loose and kick many to the curb, but I am finally free to pursue genuine, honest…

  • Trump’s COVID-19 Diagnosis: A Chance for Self-Improvement

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    Victor Cypert
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    As I went to sleep last night, I noticed that the President of the United States and the First Lady had both tested positive for the novel coronavirus. I knew that social media this morning would be a veritable shit-show of bad behavior from both the left and the right. To my chagrin, I was…

  • We are sowing the wind…

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    Victor Cypert
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    I fear that contemporary publishing sows the wind. The phrase, taken from a passage in the book of Hosea in the Bible, refers to planting the seeds of one’s own destruction. This is the direction fiction publishing is taking and the whirlwinds are starting to come in; it’s harvest time. Recently, the novel American Dirt…