A Tale of Tattered Edges

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	Tale of Tattered Edges by Vanessa Hurst, MS

	Covid. The Floods in Eastern Kentucky. The War in Ukraine. Records Heat Waves in Europe. Monkeypox. Inflation Across the Globe. Do I need to go on? I didn't think so. Take a deep breath. Let quiet enter your being. Breathe out. Read on. As the Mayan Calendar heralded an end to an epoch on December 21, 2012, we welcomed in a brave new world. But, we forgot that there is chaos in the gestation and birth of the new. I don't believe that we are at an end of this birthing, so we are not at the end of the chaos.[...] Read more.

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A Tale of Tattered Edges

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