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How Flowers Can Change History…
Thistle Meadows in Scotland Dear Reader: The other day, my history lover friend and teaching colleague, Carol Poole, shared one of the numerous legends that grew up around Scotland’s national...
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Perfect isn’t the Plan… Purpose is…
Dear Reader: ” So what …if your life’s a little messy? Perfect isn’t the plan. Purpose is life! I always breathe a sigh of relief when someone or something reminds me that we might all be created in...
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Life is Only as Good as the People You Get to Share It With…
Dear Reader: Have you ever stopped and really looked at a dear friend… perhaps a lifelong friend, or a spouse and uttered the words in the title caption above? Truly… what are the odds of two people,...
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” What’s Old is New Again”
Early 19th Century Knepp Estate Castle Dear Reader: Some of you might have caught this interesting CBS televised story yesterday or heard about it elsewhere… but I found it so fascinating… I started...
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” Plunge Boldly Into the Thick of Life”
This is your Tuesday Morning Reminder that You can Handle Whatever the Week Throws at You! Dear Reader: Yesterday morning when I read this kick-off to the week… I knew it was a God Wink. Today I am...
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A Needed Push Out of the Nest…
Keep Going! Your future self will be so happy and proud that you didn’t give up or cave in to your comfort zone! Dear Reader: I see now what my apprehension had clouded earlier … I was overdue for a...
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Lifetime Learning Means Never Stop Growing…
Dear Reader: As a teacher for over three decades in the classroom… I was always ” preaching ” to my eighth graders the importance of becoming ” lifetime learners.” I am pretty sure, at thirteen, that...
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I Pink … Therefore I Am!
Dear Reader: Yesterday was the long awaited day… Pink Day when Julie, Carrie, Mandy , Eva Cate and I were going, going…( can you guess where?) to the movies to see Barbie! ( And then out for an early...
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Lessons of Hope, Courage and Faith … Learned from a ” Solo Starry Night.”
In this photo… there is only one visible star… the rest are galaxies Dear Reader: Every time I happen upon a sky filled with just one visible star, I think of my grandmother. She was an ardent star...
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When Listening IS the Answer…
Dear Reader: The longer I live… the more conscious I am of simply not having the answer to so many questions and situations in life… and have finally recognized and accepted that my job is to listen...
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If We Stay True to Ourselves, We recognize the Chosen Path Ahead…
Dear Reader: The nicest thing about growing older… is finally liking ourselves for who we are. This huge benchmark doesn’t appear automatically… it takes lots of detours and dead-end paths to finally...
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“Summer is a State of Mind”
Dear Reader: I really did need to say ” Rabbit Rabbit” early this morning ( first thing) because July quickly ” snuck out” last night without making a sound and this morning the reality of August and...
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When Emptiness and Nothingness Provide Meaningfulness …
” Tale of the Ringless Ring”-(Thomas Moore) Dear Reader: A couple of days ago, I came across this ” parable” called ” The Tale of the Ringless Ring.” * It elevated my consciousness level in a new...
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We Can’t Preempt Life… No Matter How Much We Wish…
Dear Reader: Don’t you wish that upon birth… we each could arrive… holding a magical ” channel changer” ( clicker, switcher, remote control) in our tiny fists? Our personal magical ” clicker” could...
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Life Begins and Ends with Hope…
Dear Reader: Finding a ” God Wink” in the mega-movie Barbie ( you might think) is a ” bit of a stretch” but the connection has brought tears and a smiles to surprised movie-goers. By now there have...
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Finding HYGGE at St. Thomas Point On a Rainy Friday Morning…
Dear Reader: When I got to participate in the Danish-American Teacher Exchange in the early nineties, I learned first-hand about hygge-an old Norse word ” Hugr” which later became the English...
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One of Life’s Most Difficult Lessons… Your Greatest Quality isn’t ” Fitting...
BE SOMEONE WHO MAKES “YOU” HAPPY! Dear Reader: It’s that time of the year when school age children (from elementary to high school) start coming down with an ” annual medical outbreak ” which...
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” If You are too Busy to Laugh… You are too Busy!”
Dear Reader: I woke up yesterday thinking I was just in the mood for humor… ( felt like Abraham Lincoln) so I ” traveled” back in time through Chapelofhopestories… picking out some of my favorite...
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Mysterious Summerville Sightings… Light and Light!
My ” Rainbow Road” Mysterious Light Dear Reader: Isn’t there something exciting about an unexplained sighting of anything… especially when it is something ordinary being something or somewhere...
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Back to School “Surcie” Time!
Dear Reader: I liked Gin-g’s idea of getting a note off to each grandchild before school starts again. The Post Office, these days, might be considered ” Snail Mail” … but still …isn’t there something...
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