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The Question That Changed How I See Everything

Years ago, a mentor asked me a simple question about what makes life extraordinary. I didn’t understand it then. I do now. This is my answer.

Feb 9 • Linda Spencer

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What a Sun Shower Taught Me at Five Years Old

As a child, I danced through a sun shower while my mother called me inside. Decades later, that memory still reminds me that rain passes and light…

Feb 2 • Linda Spencer

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January 2026

Ode to the Experiences I Will Not Have, and Some I Will

Some places I’ll never see. Some moments I still will. A reflection on aging, wonder, imagined journeys, and how meaning settles in over time.

Jan 26 • Linda Spencer

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We Don’t Go Back to Ourselves

We don’t go back to who we were. We move forward changed by experience, shaped by time, and quietly becoming someone new without losing our core.

Jan 19 • Linda Spencer

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On Experience, Not Expertise

A reflection on lived experience, earned wisdom, and why the most meaningful insights can’t be packaged, branded, or taught.

Jan 12 • Linda Spencer

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The Art of Moving Unseen

A woman with a grocery bag. An emperor with a crown. A reflection on survival, misdirection, and what we’re trained not to notice.

Jan 5 • Linda Spencer

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December 2025

What it Means to Matter

What it means to matter, why memory endures, and how every fragment we preserve delays the final time a name is spoken.

Dec 29, 2025 • Linda Spencer

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On Art, Constraint, and the Discipline of Hope

In a chaotic world, structure can become freedom. An essay on Van Gogh, creative constraint, and the discipline of hope.

Dec 22, 2025 • Linda Spencer

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On Heights, Humility, and a Cow

A moment in the Swiss Alps—alone, afraid of heights, and sitting beside a cow—became an unexpected lesson in humility and perspective.

Dec 15, 2025 • Linda Spencer

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I Failed and Became

I failed my way forward in childhood, motherhood, career, and countless dreams. But each failure built me. This is my story of becoming: bold, bruised…

Dec 8, 2025 • Linda Spencer

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A Lesson from Whitney Houston

On freedom, timing, and the meaning found in the pause between breaths. One of the most iconic pauses in music history reveals something surprising…

Dec 1, 2025 • Linda Spencer

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November 2025

Does the Pen Paint? A Journalist’s Lesson

I once asked an old journalist in Malaga a simple question. He stopped, set down his pen, and taught me something I’ve never forgotten. It was a lesson…

Nov 24, 2025 • Linda Spencer

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