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Space… Not Outer Space… Room for Your Soul

3 min readApr 17, 2026

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A lady walking down a peaceful country lane with bright sunshine lighting her way.
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Space. I’m not talking about planets and black holes.
— I mean the space in our daily lives.

Or lack thereof.

Some call it margin.
Those openings in time that may or may not be wedged between the giant list of chores filling our calendars.

We try not to waste time.

But if we don’t have quality time, are we just wasting our lives instead?

It’s easy to assign importance to the time we spend at our jobs,

— earning money,
— investing in our financial stability.

There’s no way to quantify five minutes of holding a baby,
— a 15 minute nap,
— or a stroll through the park when flowers are blooming.

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Career-maker in the type of adventures that other folks do on vacation. Author of HERE. STILL. Words to sit with when there's no one beside you. Link in About.

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