Friday, July 11, 2014

What's happening . . .

As I rebuild this blog, it is my hope that I am not confusing everybody with the posts that automatically feed into different places on the internet and to those who subscribe by email. A couple of weeks ago I guess I was going through a difficult time with anxiety and panic attacks about being...
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Posted by Gina Alfani at 1:02 AM

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Offering love and comfort

They invented hugs to let people know you  love them without saying anything.  (Bil Keane) Sometimes just being with somebody,  rather than words,is all that  is needed to help. Sometimes it is difficult to see someone we love struggling, in pain,...
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Posted by Gina Alfani at 6:09 AM
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

It's about love

"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." Rumi, was a great Sufi mystic, lover and poet It is how I was feeling before I met The Captain,  I knew he was there...
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Monday, July 7, 2014

Life's Best Moments

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going.  What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope. Thomas Merton The roller coaster ride of emotions can...
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Sunday, July 6, 2014

Peaceful Sanctuaries

"It is oftentimes necessary that we create the peaceful sanctuaries in which we wish to relax and refresh ourselves. However much we may dream of settling into the comforting embrace of a quite and uncluttered personal space, our circumstances will not always allow us to immediately do so....
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Bottomless pit of wants and desires

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. Oprah Winfrey The lifestyle theory of Simple Abundance teaches being happy and grateful for the little things in life, no matter how much or how little we actually...
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No promises

I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them. Jeanne DuPrau The Earth House Being grateful for what we have been blessed with is not easy when life circumstances...
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