Category: Blog
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Strangers
You shouldn’t talk to strangers, My mother told me that when I was little. I taught it to my kids. Once when my son was small, He tried talking to a man we didn’t know. I tried to pull him away as good mothers should, The man said in his wisdom, “Young man, did your…
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Beauty Matters
I have a picture in my room that says, “beauty matters, surround yourself with it” and in little side notes it says flowers, color, love, and meaning. I realize these things may not mean beauty to you, but they mean a lot to me. As I write this, I can look up from my blog…
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The Never-Ending Story
I watched The Never-Ending Story with my grandson, it’s an old movie, but it was interesting watching it with some fresh thoughts in my mind. The genre of the movie was fantasy or fable. The show depicted humanity as creatures who were fantastical beings seemingly lost and their world was crumbling around them. They knew…
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Weeds
I spent the morning pulling weeds out of one of my flower beds. It was exhausting and to tell you the truth I was a bit overwhelmed. When they first started growing in the bed, I wasn’t sure if it was weeds or flowers. Some of them looked the same as some of the flowers…
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Think Before You Speak
How do we get out of the messes we create? I mean the really sticky ones, with our family and friends, when we say things, we didn’t mean to say and it creates a chasm so wide, it feels like no one will ever be able to cross it. I bet you thought I was…
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Trust
I used to love roller coasters until my emotions became one. Up and down, twisting and spirally, sometimes even going upside down. Some roller coasters jerk you so hard it even feels like your heart actually moves. I used to love the thrill of reaching the top, the peak of the roller coaster, and I…
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Stuck In the Mud
Often we try to move in life without getting out of the messes we are in first. The path we are on doesn’t look difficult. We put one foot in front of the other and before we know it we are stuck. Our attempts to pull ourselves out fail, simply because there are barriers in…
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Sweet Spot
I’ve always heard the phrase what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Sounds good and all that. But what kind of life is that? We need to find that sweet-spot, Between being stronger and worn out. I don’t know about you, but I do not want to live the rest of my life worrying about…
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HOLIDAY RUSH
The Holidays can be a very busy time, rushing from one place to the next. Sometimes we are in such a hurry we fail to notice the things around us. While in Wal-Mart the other day, I was shopping very quickly. This means I had my head forward, using my very fast paced walk.…
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Fears
I was driving down the road, keep in mind I live in the country and walking across the road like it owned it was a huge spider. A big hairy black creepy long-legged tarantula almost as big as my car. He honestly wasn’t waiting for me to get by before he decided to make his…
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