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the last blog, on blogger anyways.

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  my first time in a wheelchair        I know I have infrequently been posting blogs for the last couple of months, mostly because I’m running out of material and I feel like I’m not reaching enough people.  I will be transitioning to posting blogs on my website hopefully around once a month at masonsnextsteps.com and posting to my Instagram more often , you can find the masonsnextsteps Instagram on the website and my personal Instagram is mason_branstrator. You can pretty much find me on any platform with either my name (mason branstrator) or my current brand name (masonsnextsteps).  please reach out if you have any comments questions or concerns! 

A deep talk

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  Last night I had the most wonderful talk with my uncle. It had been 2 years and one spinal cord injury since the last time I saw him. A lot had changed. His face lit up as he entered the room, he gave me a big hug and immediately sat down and started in on a conversation with me. After praising me for my attitude and strength he asked me the question every adult asked me during this time in my life. “What are you thinking about studying?” When I responed “I’ve been told I shouldn’t major in philosophy” he immediately responded, “been told?, what do you mean by that” he explained that this was the time in my life that I decided. And that everything I thought I knew about the profession I wanted to be a part of, would change when I started to dig a little deeper anyway.  We talked about everything meaningful under the sun and I was beaming with joy taking in everything he had to say. It is these deep conversations that I used to start with the people around me, but somehow I lost inter