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Ad Hoc: An Uncommon Word that Has Great Meaning and Power

What Would You Do if Given the Chance to Live Your One Precious Life?

Nancy Blackman, MASF
5 min readJun 1, 2022

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man overlooking a night sky of an urban city with quote “If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” —Audre Lorde. Ad Hoc: An Uncommon Word that Has Great Meaning and Power by Nancy Blackman, ad hoc, intentional, intentionality, purpose, purposeful life
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Lakota Prayer

Wakan Tanka, Great Mystery,
teach me how to trust
my heart,
my mind,
my intuition,
my inner knowing,
the senses of my body,
the blessings of my spirit.
Teach me to trust these things
so that I may enter my Sacred Space
and love beyond my fear,
and thus Walk in Balance
with the passing of each glorious Sun.

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precioius life?” —Mary Oliver

The word “ad hoc” as an adjective means “concerned with a particular end or purpose” or “formed or used for specific or immediate problems or needs.”

Ad hoc is a Latin word that means “for this” or “for this situation.” In other words, if you were created for a purpose (this), for this

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Nancy Blackman, MASF
Nancy Blackman, MASF

Written by Nancy Blackman, MASF

Boosted & 8x Top Writer. Owner: Refresh the Soul publication. Editor: The Shortform and Poetry Playground. Published in: “Mixed Korean: Our Stories" — Kindle.

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