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    Editor’s Letter: Issue 05, Kris Carr

    by Kristen Noel Oct 31, 2020 1 minute
    Kristen Noel, photographed by Bill Miles

    Dear Best Selfers:

    Awakening… it stirs up something different within each of us. Sometimes monumental and other times subtler…

    It is nonetheless often a beckoning from within, gently whispering, it is time to wake up.

    In this present moment, I am simply delighted to see the landscape around me awakening

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