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This was very well written. Thank you for this!

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This song! How can you not love the pet shop boys? I used it as a meditation, eyes closed in the darkness of early Tuesday. While I listened, I reconnected with my former professional self--a sales VP, living in airports and Hiltons, in heels and business suits--whose skin I shed almost a decade ago when I quit that career to care for my mom. Over these past years it feels like my professional self melded with my authentic self. Still getting to know her.

The lyrics made me happy and a little homesick for my folks who recently died: “But I won't see you/'Til you've made it back again.”

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Music knows how to find those deep places in you. It is a very meditative song.

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I used to write before work and really enjoyed it. I had to get through a few hits of the snooze button but it was always worth it.

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I love the snooze button. If you plan ahead to use it, it means you can wake up slowly without being late.

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I love this. After reading the first question I thought authentic. But now I see where professional comes in. I will have to try this on myself as getting out of bed each morning is the biggest challenge in my day

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A weird thing has happened to me. I'm a morning person now. Christine has to get up for work at 6:30, so I get up too and write TREE before I start work. It's working fine, but after a life of being a night owl I'm finding it confusing.

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