Holidays and Difficult Times

The holidays alone can bring on difficult times for so many in this world for many reasons.  I found an excellent article entitled "Difficult Times" that describes it perfectly.  It is posted further on this post, along with a link to the awesome website it comes from. Holiday difficult...

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Sentimental Lady . . . my favorite post from the past

As another holiday season approaches, this will be my second "normal" holiday since I became a widow. As with last year, I'm giving thanks  and being grateful for what we have individually been blessed with . . . good and bad. I continue to be grateful...

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Stop Me

An old love from the past had come back into my life.  It was an unresolved issue that haunted me most of my adult life.  He had joined the military and never came back . . . well, not until many years after I became a widow.  We had a second chance for a future together when he...

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Relate to yourself

Relate to yourself through your journal  "To write spiritually is to engage in a search for authentic language. You’ll find your truth by writing your way to it."  -- Patrice Vecchione  Who would allow you to totally ignore, abuse, laugh with, swear at, shed...

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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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The Transition Zone

“When we feel stuck, going nowhere . . . even starting to slip backward . . . we may actually be backing up to get a running start.” Dan Millman Changing from holding on to those old habits or circumstances in life can sometimes be difficult since they are comfortable. The transition...

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Faith and the darkness of the unknown

"When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step into the darkness of the unknown. Faith is knowing that one of two things will happen. There will be solid ground to stand on or you will be taught to fly." Author unknown Life and society as we know it...

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Transition and fear

“Cause you could spend your life Lookin’ for your own reflection Time could blur the lines Between what’s real And what’s projected Had I known what I lost? What I gained, what it’d cost I’d still give what remains To be myself again”from the song Be Myself Again by Donna Summer My emotions have been...

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It's Always Something

It's always something Roseanne Roseannadanna (Gilda Radner's SNL character) The following post is from one of my older blogs that I'm still transferring to this one. As I was going through some old posts to transfer over, it occurred to me that my life has come full circle . ....

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