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Still “Hotter than Blue Blazes”…
Dear Reader: With my cable still out and my jaunt to my polling precinct only lasting ten minutes since ( sadly I was the only one in the room with the poll workers) .. I returned home with a lot of...
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” Why I Wake Early”…
Dear Reader: I am not sure when it happened. It happened before my brain recognized it as a bona fide new pattern in my daily routine. I have started waking up at the ” crack of dawn.” The first few...
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Do Small Things with Great Love
Dear Reader: One lesson in life I have learned is that small tokens of friendship and love are more important in life than grand gestures. Things like receiving a brilliant smile from a stranger in a...
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A Stroke of Luck… Can Go Both Ways
Dear Reader: The Dalai Lama says it best: ” Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” Take a moment and remember when this exact scenario played out for you…...
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Mortals’ Tunnel Vision
Dear Reader: Tunnel vision is described as having a very narrow view, inability to see beyond a limited viewpoint. It is the key reason our United States has, sadly, become ” dis-united. If we let our...
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A House is Who You Are…Not Who You Ought To Be
Dear Reader: When it comes to old homes ( my home) there are so many things that need fixing … I feel immobilized where to start because everything is a ” big ticket item” … under headings like...
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In the Good Old Summertime!
Dear Reader: As children of school age… didn’t we all live for summer? It was like Christmas vacation in eternal extension… except no gifts were necessary… no school and loss of rigid routines was...
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A Memory of a Long Ago Summer Story
Dear Reader: I grew up in the Haymount area of Fayetteville, NC -not the old historic Victorian mansions side but on the other side where ” Leave it to Beaver” middle class homes pervaded the...
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Re-creating Our Lives from New Meanings to Past Experiences
Dear Reader: I am at the stage in life now that I understand completely the quote: ” Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.” Soren Kirrkagaard We all are our past...
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Fenced In, Fenced Out, or Stuck On the Fence
Dear Reader: I am one happy camper! My neighbor next door has started securing and replacing every part of the ancient fence that separates the empty lot that his family owns… all the way to the back...
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If You Can Visualize It and Believe It, You CanMake It Happen
Dear Reader: Looking backwards at the trail behind… it hit me how on target and true this title saying is. The first time it happened I was a junior in high school and wanted so badly to try out for...
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When Harry Met Winnie
Dear Reader: Isn’t life exciting when we learn something new on an ordinary day? And this ” new” just makes your day! This happened to me yesterday. I was taking a picture of a very popular Winnie the...
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” Shh… There, there…”
Dear Reader: Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink, That is the finest of suppers, I think; When I’m grown up and can have what I please I think I shall always insist upon these. – Christopher Morley...
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A Wish List to the Universe-Your Own Treasure Map
” For where Your Treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:21 Dear Reader: This year for Rutledge’s birthday I thought I would give him a compass that came down from his...
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When Mind, Body and Soul Meet
Dear Reader: Every few years I come back across the book Simple Abundance by Sarah Breathnach, written in 1995, and I marvel at the new connections and realizations we share… even after all the years...
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The New ” Swings” in Our Daily Lives
Dear Reader: Do you think we had fun yesterday? Never a dull moment! It was a stormy ( weather-wise) day so I was introduced to a whole new world out there. Video Games… where I found myself drawn...
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Becoming the Velveteen Rabbit
Dear Reader: While keeping Rutledge and Lachlan Wednesday I had a ” Velveteen Rabbit” moment. After watching the boys play a few video games I walked back downstairs and decided to go out on the porch...
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The Gift of Friendship
Dear Reader: I just returned home late yesterday afternoon after spending the night in Walterboro with Brooke. I called her Tuesday after Mandy called me while babysitting the boys at Mollie’s … that...
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Befriending Life… No Matter the Question… Let Love Be the Answer
Dear Reader: After I finished reading a recent post by Kate Wolfe-Jenson ( MS ” journeyman” who writes about her continuum passage living with MS for decades) I immediately thought of my friend...
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Just Happy to Be Here on Our Country’s Birthday!
Dear Reader: 246 Years Old! ( It actually makes me feel younger instantly! … I am talking about ” My Country Tis’ of Thee!” ) Today , July 4th marks a birthday near and dear to an ole’ history...
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