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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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My suitcase was packed, my traveling clothes all laid out. My mom tried to help by encouraging me to like stuff that other girls my age liked: clothes, boy bands, teen magazines. I bucked her attempts to put me in stylish clothes and instead opted for baggy T-shirts. Mortified, I tried to hide behind a clothing rack.

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How 30 Days of Kindness Made Me a Better Person

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It’s a warm September day in New York, but he’s sitting under a mountain of ragged bits of clothing, towels and blankets. Admittedly I experienced some form of generosity fatigue around the second week of my challenge. We perceive there to be some form of personal benefit from the act, either in the short- or long-term.

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Glitter is plastic in disguise, plus 4 more reasons to skip the shiny stuff

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He formed Meadowbrook Inventions , which is still one of the main global suppliers of glitter. Most people understand that microplastics, such as fibers from clothes or microbeads in facial scrubs, are dangerous to sea life. In line with the 2017 ban on microbeads in toiletries , there have recently been calls to ban glitter.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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Tarrent-Arthur and Helen Cummings-Henry saw COVID-19 as an opportunity to form Righteous Uplifting Nourishing International, a global nonprofit organization whose message is to change lives one soul at a time. Tarrent-Arthur and Helen Cummings-Henry. Coaches, trainers, speakers, teachers. Cindy Castillo. Realtor, real estate coach.

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