Desperate Times

What is happening to our society?  Perhaps it is desperate economic times?  Or do we just not care about others? I'm watching the news and hearing reports of the bizarre behavior.  Sometimes the news sounds like a spoof of the news.  A 70-year old woman was punched in...

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Merry Christmas

From our family to yours Merry Christmas! Hope your day is happy, festive and full of love :) ...

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Breathing in Heaven and Earth

When we choose not to focus On what is missing from our lives But are grateful for the abundance that's present, We experience heaven on earth. Sarah BreathnachIt was a troubling chapter in my life . . . I was so lost and desperately seeking the way to crawl out of the situation, knowing that...

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Things Aren't Always What They Seem

Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the  home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion's guestroom. Instead the angels were given a space in the cold basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the...

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Decide Today

Decide today that you will have no regrets. And you'll free up much time to actually get things done. Decide today that you'll have no complaints. And your thoughts can be focused on creative, productive pursuits. Decide today that you'll carry no anger or resentment. And you'll bring out the best...

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Too Much Of A Good Thing . . . Not Possible!

Too much of a  good thing is wonderful.  (Mae West)  In my opinion . . . no such thing as too much of a good thing! I've entered a state of contentment, an acceptance of the way things are in my life and knowing that isn't such a bad thing after all I have been through in the...

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The Wonder of Luxuries

Some people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.  Abraham H. Maslow For me, it has become a routine lifestyle . . . that of simple living and being grateful for what you have....

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our friends in Bloggerville  from The Captain and me.  May you have a safe, festive and blessed holiday with your family and friends. I'm most grateful to have been so blessed to have found love again . . . we will be celebrating our first Thanksgiving together...

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Comfort Zones

A soft place to land is the term used by The Daily Om, describing the comfort zone as the place to "provide us with a safe and comforting refuge in which we can decompress and recover from the day’s stresses." My little piece of paradise in Florida is my comfort zone . . . outdoor...

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Happy Veterans Day

In Flanders field the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders...

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Just Do It

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." Martin Luther King, Jr. "If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it." Olin Miller   "Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible." George...

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Great expectations

In an older post,  I defined great expectations  as going beyond hope and faith. Often faith is described as seeing the outcome before it happens.  I felt it, I knew it.  I just didn't know what "it" was.  My hope was to be happy again.  Some people are meant to share...

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Finding the key

"So often time it happens,  we all live our life in chains,  and we never even know  we have the key." The Eagles, lyrics from the song "Already Gone" The possibilities are endless when the realization hits that we hold the key to that...

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The foundation of a great relationship

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation. The beginning and the end. Everything or nothing. And nothing without truth. Author unknown I want to take a part of the storyline from one of my favorite movies, "The Wedding Singer" to illustrate what I want to talk about . . . Trust,...

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