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...occurred almost every day after school for about two months. During this time, it was difficult to fit in cross-country, gymnastics, piano and homework. Yet somehow I did. On those rare occasions when I am left with a free moment, one of my favorite things to do is relax in a comfortable chair and read a novel...
...love being 13, but it can be bad. When it is, I just relax and take a deep breath and say, "I'll only be 13 once...
...told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he realized he had been holding his breath for about 10 minutes. "Anyone who has watched [video of the] Challenger can't even hardly bear going through" the point where the Challenger exploded, her other brother Jon said. "After that point, you can relax." Clark's son Iain said he wished someone else could have gone instead of his mom because he was missing her. She had taken with her a sheet containing all the pictures and fingerprints of his second-grade classmates. She emailed her family about how beautiful Mount Fuji looked from...
Though a strain of melancholy was part of his nature, Lincoln possessed a remarkable sense of humor and a gift for storytelling that allowed him, time and again, to defuse tensions and relax his colleagues at difficult moments. Many of his stories, taken from his seemingly limitless stock, were directly applicable to a point being argued. Many were self-deprecatory, all were hilarious. When he began one of them, his "eyes would sparkle with fun," one old-timer remembered, "and when he reached the point in his narrative which invariably evoked the laughter of the crowd, nobody's enjoyment...
...contrast to most of his colleagues who worked themselves to the point of exhaustion, Lincoln understood the importance of finding ways to relax. In the evenings, he regularly entertained friends by reading aloud from Shakespeare, sharing a favorite poem or telling a few of his inexhaustible stories. His ability to think creatively and retain an even keel was rooted in the constructive ways he would dispel worry and anxiety. In the most difficult moments of his presidency, nothing brought him more refreshment and repose than immersing himself in a play. The manager of Grover's Theatre in Washington estimated that...