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This Christmas…Take Time to Re-Introduce Yourself to Yourself
Dear Reader: Because of the different roles that men and women play in any particular society…it is easy to lose sight of ourselves, isn’t it? For most of us the day will come when we wake up, look in...
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The “Centerpiece of Christmas”…Friends and Family
Dear Reader: Every year, without fail, Christmas arrives with Honey bringing me the centerpiece “Apple Tree.” The smell from the apples and pineapple bring (for me) the scent of Christmas…the longer...
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Christmas is “Kid Stuff” for Adults…
Dear Reader: Here are my “Three Wise Men” because I have learned more from each of them than I ever knew before they existed. They have made me fall in love again with each of them. Powerful stuff!...
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Surprise! It’s Christmas!
Dear Reader: If we think back on our own childhood memories of Christmas morning…of all the mixed elements on this day of great anticipation for children everywhere…the element of Surprise is (and has...
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“Christmas, Children, Is Not a Date. It is a State of Mind.”
Dear Reader: This beloved children’s Christmas quote, by famous educator and author, Mary Ellen Chase, first appeared in a Christmas letter she wrote to the younger members of her extended family. My...
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The “Light of the World” at Christmas
Dear Reader: In one of my garden books…it divides the chapters into seasons….describing different plants and flowers that do well in different seasons in a garden. For Christmas, however, the...
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Our “Holiday Monsters” and What They Teach Us
Dear Reader: Happy Christmas Eve! For our “Holiday Monster” Sharing…I had to start with Anne’s (Peterson) monster since that gal put a lot of time and thought into her monster mask. From the very...
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“The Legend of the Palmetto Rose Cross”
Dear Reader: MERRY CHRISTMAS! If you are curious as to what happened last night with the Christmas Eve story… Well….it is quite a story. Do you remember the scene in the Christmas movie, Love...
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Refuge and Rest in the Christmas Garden…
Dear Reader: It is over. Christmas has come and gone. I removed the dried, brown “greenery” from the magic moon gate…it was time to let it go. Nothing is sadder than watching greenery wither and die....
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God’s “Take” on E Pluribus Unum
Dear Reader: After, admittedly, a few tears and a little disappointment that my voice didn’t return in time to tell the annual Christmas story…I dug down deep to get my priorities and attitude...
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Remembering the Past With Bubble Lights and Founding Fathers
Dear Reader: When I received this “Bubble Light” for Christmas, a week ago, I was thrilled….Christmas memories from the past came rushing back! Growing up… my siblings and I always had three of...
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“A Thought Away”…
Dear Reader: When people ask me how I come up with ideas to write a daily blog year ’round…I reply that it only takes one quote or saying that I hear on television, or in a conversation, or perhaps...
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The “Book Marks” in our Lives…
Dear Reader: I heard back from several of you yesterday remembering Christmases past and special people who have gone ahead but who still live within you…guiding you along your life’s journey. I will...
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“Canning” Memories… for the New Year
Dear Reader: As I sat on the sofa yesterday deciding on what story would end 2014…a child’s name kept trying to break through the cobwebs of my memory. A story that really touched me but had been...
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Endings and Beginnings…
Dear Reader: Happy New Year! And look who surprised me this morning in all her glory? “Middle Amaryllis” greeted 2015 with two beautiful blooms… back-to-back! It reminded me of the two-faced Roman...
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Let’s Not “Lose our Marbles” in 2015!
Dear Reader: ***Let me make this insertion on Friday, January 2….something just happened that I have been waiting for a long time….I woke up (8:00 a.m.) to 500 followers!!!!!!!!!! I have come close...
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Living Life With a Grateful Heart!
Dear Reader: I started thinking, the other day, how quickly the depth of gratefulness for life shallows, if we don’t consciously dedicate our awareness to it. If we don’t let the first thought each...
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A Hint of Something Bigger…
Dear Reader: One of my students gave me this eyeglass holder years ago. It sits by my computer to ‘supposedly’ hold one of umpteen pairs of reading glasses that I own…or it is supposed to…but each...
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Becoming Who We Are Through our Responses to Life
Dear Reader: Have you ever considered that what “we seek to become, we already are?” When I read that line in a recent blog (Dancing with Monsters/Kate Wolfe- Jenson) I literally stopped reading,...
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The Three Most Important Things in Life…
Dear Reader: I came across this quote from Henry James and was so happy to “find” it again. I needed to be reminded of the importance of kindness. Henry James said, “Three things in human life are...
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