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COINing Courtesy
Customs
Basking
in the tasking
Uniting
Missions
with traditions
Collectible
COINing
Courtesy
Triumphant
Token
Duty, Honor, Country — those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. ~General Douglas MacArthur on 12 May 1962 for the farewell address at U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Have you ever been working yourself to the bones while you kept going at it all with a lot of smiles? Daze unto fortnights, with prolonged months, and inching closer to two years that seem uncanny to the former self I used to be in mind-bendery relays. Yet, this is where I elected to place myself. Steering a questing venture. Having pulled up my beloved California and Maui to Colorado stakes for a mid-50s do-over entry-level assistant chance to secure the older version of me a supportive pension for my wrinkly age. Me, who’s supposedly allergic to office culture, imploded her vagabonding in exchange for an extremist revolutionary alteration circa September 2024. Since then, the best I know to do is to look out for the silvery (and, perhaps newly, bronze) linings. Those moments that won’t always come as often as you want and consistently scoff at your persistent prayers for whatever you deem better to plop in your lap.
