Bobbi Klein and Jack Gillen have written a book on the psychological study of perspectives using short stories from a day in Millennium Park in Chicago. You never know what you will find in this with excerpts from Broadway, the misfit movement, paleo, doctors, passions, high school drama, writers, photographers, and teenage mothers.

1. Perspectives
in the Park
By: Bobbi Klein & Jack Gillen
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2. 1 Day in Chicago
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3. 5 People &/ or Groups
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4. 10 Short Stories
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5. “I really wish you’d come to Tokyo with
me next year for the celebration
Angela, your mother’s going to get the
key to the city!”
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6. The museum had gotten creative and
designed “Quiet” signs, similar to the
ones at PGA tournaments held by over
enthused fans waiting to catch a
glimpse of Tiger Woods, with details of
“sleeping man inside.”
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7. What’s Your Perspective?
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8. "When you change the way you
look at things, the things you look
at change” -Wayne Dyer
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9. “Perspectives create your reality. They
can hold you back or expand you into
knew dimensions of being, allowing you
to thrive in new ways you would've
never perceived as possible.”
-Jenn Seffrin
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10. A woman always knows when she’s
being watched upon, and Daphne
could tell that now in her early
sixties she has gone from being a
metaphoric Vogue Magazine to
Parade Weekly.
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11. She thought it was almost scientific
how a simple piece of street art
could harness the image of an
entire city and warp it in such an
amusing way.
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12. How Do You See the World?
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13. The energy and brilliance of
walking through the park knowing
that you are being photographed
was amazing and fulfilling.
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14. “Life has a way of working out and
making it a great celebration with
people that I love,” Karen said.
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15. It was a given, the sky is blue, cake
is delicious, and the Vavrick girl
and the Hammer girl are best
friends.
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16. She read the words, but they did not
have any meaning. Her mind was in
another place thinking about where
she wanted to be and what she
wanted to do with her life.
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17. When we start doing what we
love, there is an incredible amount
of passion visible, and it is difficult
for people not to notice.
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18. ...“I wonder what would happen if
people began to follow their intuition
instead of someon eles’s desires.”
Marc replied, “The world would be a
wonderful place to live.”
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19. Are You Judging Others?
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20. Jenna and her friends have for
several months wondered how to
best tell Kristy McElly that it was
okay for her son to have a snack
time, not a snacks time.
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21. She let the rain cleanse her
insecurities, the doubts worthiness. In
many ways she was like the rain, going
through life with a solid bravery, never
knowing quite where she was going to
land…and she liked that.
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22. See, for Marissa, her dating life was
upside down. People were trying to set
her up with guys who did not know
how to take Marissa’s philosophies on
life, friend of friends, and the classic,
“he is in the same industry as you.”
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23. She had her morning cup of coffee
bulletproof style now (with pastured
butter instead of cream). It gave it a
richer taste without the creaminess of
adding heavy cream. She began to
watch the sunrise and thank God for
this wonderful day that she has to live.
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24. She was one cab ride away from
change, something Daphne hated
more than almost anything, and the
change that was more frightening to
her than a botched up surgery was the
change that would occur within herself
after admitting that she was getting
old.
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25. Over the years Hoken had watched
helplessly as he transformed in his
Heather’s eyes from solid provider to
out-of-touch pest.
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26. The prosecution argued that he would
use me to get information on Hollie
when I hung out with her. That last
one made me so sick to my stomach I
cannot even begin.
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27. “I am not going to be like Paula Deen
and help promote diabetes across the
United States and the world saying all
of these grains are super healthy in
this cupcake with icing that has twice
as much fake sugar as a soda and
enough margarine to make a French
pastry chef cringe,” she decided.
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28. Many saw Marissa as a person that
was just traveling around the world
and did not have any desire to settle
down, but those who knew her best
knew that the opposite was true.
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29. Children from school or the
neighborhood that she didn’t even like
would come over for “play-dates” and
spend a whole afternoon as her
mother’s captive audience as she
performed her greatest Saturday
morning hits for them live in her den.
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30. Bobbi Klein @bobbiklein
Jack Gillen @jgill444
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