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Love the piece, thank you. I see the word "stollen" (rather than stolen) and smiled - that's the Christmas bread ;-) xoxoxo

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Robert Saltzman emailed me to tell me this is how Trump spells it. So, alas, I have something in common with Don. I like Christmas bread better. I haven't yet figured out how to edit a published post without re-sending it to everyone. So, it will have to remain imperfect, which is a good challenge for a perfectionist. 😎

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Hi Joan, since I'm a new "Substack writer" myself ( only two weeks old :-) ), I saw this article from the Substack team on my dashboard, and I read it a few days ago : https://on.substack.com/p/how-to-use-the-substack-editor

In that article they clearly say : "Note: Posts can only be emailed out once. Once you have sent an email out, the only way to send it again is to create an entirely new post. Any edits you make to a previously-published post will only be reflected on the web. So, there’s no need to worry about accidentally spamming your subscribers with repeat emails. "

Before reading that, I was also wondering if an email was sent out to my ( 12 ! 😎) subsribers each time I edited a misspelling or typo, thanksfully it's not the case. 🙂

So you can correct the word "stollen" or any other word from any other article, as many times as necessary, without worrying about sending emails over an over again, it will just correct the article present on the web. Hope it helps.

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Thanks, Cedric. Even though it requires that I push the "Send to Everyone Now" button, it won't actually do that?

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Exactly.

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I corrected it! Thanks! 😎🙏 Also, good luck with your Substack. I will check it out.

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That is a wonderful first paragraph. I’ve read it over and over. You’ve made my day!

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Thank you

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All the rest of the paragraphs were as good as the first paragraph!

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Oh, you too? Perfectionist, I mean. Yikes. Not everywhere but spelling/grammar. xoxox

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Let the Mystery BE ❤

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Thanks again. So helpful.

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Thank you Joan. You put the whole damn thing into perfect perspective

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In his autobiography, Amos Oz wrote of how, when his mother learned that her entire hometown had been taken into the woods where she used to play, and were murdered, she lost the will to live. I have to wonder how I would feel and how I might act under that kind of crushing reality. I also have to wonder how I’d feel if I was a Palestinian who’s been kicked out of his home and shuffled into a refugee camp. When we feel the depth of the context for both sides, who Oz described as two oppressed people caught in a death struggle, we are deprived of a simple narrative of good vs evil and left with a profound despair of both sides. A rabbi in Jerusalem told us that Israelis see a stark choice between murder and suicide, and added “I can’t tell them any different. All of this is an invitation to quiet our minds, drop our opinions, and open our hearts to this deeply suffering region.

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How I do appreciate you Joan ~

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ALWAYS appreciate the reminders that open spacious awareness is quickly if not instantaneously available for recognition at any time. And that quality is not in competition with the messy, ugly, conflictual realities "on the ground." In fact, they're inseparable. What and where are the barriers to allowing that inharmonious harmony? Accept them. Embrace them. Watch what happens.

Just another great entry, Joan, into the mystery. Thank you so much.

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Grateful for so much here to name a few; You, Joan, this outpouring of wisdom, and the means to receive it. Coming to a place that deals with the complexity of the Palestine /Israel warring on children and women gives me distress, and confusion. The teachings here on how to recognize what is occurring here from this wider view is helping. I re-read often. Much love.

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Thank you, Joan. ♥️

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