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Michelle A Patrovani

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Jun 21, 2024

What I Want Most Is To Be In Quiet and Solitude

But my growing introversion scares me at times

What I Want Most Is To Be In Quiet and Solitude

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Sep 28, 2024

The Black Dress That Taught Me About Love

Revisiting lessons learned from a ripped hem

The Black Dress That Taught Me About Love

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Aug 29, 2024

What A Bird And A Storm Taught Me About Caregiving And Finding Strength

Navigating Life’s Unseen Battles

What A Bird And A Storm Taught Me About Caregiving And Finding Strength

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Thirty over Fifty

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Michelle A Patrovani

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Jul 18, 2024

My Repeat Holiday By The Sea

The ocean’s embrace draws and heals me

My Repeat Holiday By The Sea

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Invisible Illness

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Michelle A Patrovani

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Jul 19, 2024

Why Our Second Closest Companion In Life Is Courage

The first is fear

Why Our Second Closest Companion In Life Is Courage

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Thirty over Fifty

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Michelle A Patrovani

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Apr 14

The Promotion I Wish I Hadn’t Accepted

Why honoring your first “no” can save your health and peace, and how loyalty without reciprocity is self‑betrayal

The Promotion I Wish I Hadn’t Accepted

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Ride the Wave

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Feb 23

Sand, Serenity, Subjection, Surrender, and Salvation

The View from Here: A mid-winter meditation on what erodes us, what restores us, and what remains.

Sand, Serenity, Subjection, Surrender, and Salvation

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Ride the Wave

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Feb 8

Where the Wintering Trees Welcome

A meditation on kinship, cold, and coming home to oneself

Where the Wintering Trees Welcome

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Invisible Illness

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Michelle A Patrovani

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Jan 11

The Day I Stopped Accepting Unsaid Apologies in Envelopes

The quiet violence of forgetting — and the screaming clarity that followed

The Day I Stopped Accepting Unsaid Apologies in Envelopes

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Ride the Wave

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Nov 9, 2025

Saved by Fire and Tide

How love, loss, and forgiveness shape the storms we survive

Saved by Fire and Tide

Michelle A Patrovani

Michelle A Patrovani

Pursuing simplicity & meaning. Mom of young adult sons with life-threatening, incurable illness. X: @AbundantBreath LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in

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