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Choice
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. ~Oprah Winfrey~ Gratitude is a choice. I am lucky to have so many things in my life. I have a roof over my head. I have family that loves me. I have friends who care and would do anything…
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Believe You Are Happy
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. Dale Carnegie The scale for happiness is so often placed on possessions. People believe they will be happy when they own the biggest house…
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Definitions
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become C.G. Jung Definitions are important. Life is full of experiences. Many of them are successful endeavors and many are utter failures. It seems we choose to dwell on the disappointments. Our failures and the negativity we often associate with them are…
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Scraps
I look around myself and I found scraps of incomplete thoughts jotted down on paper or in a document. It seems like my mind cannot commit to completing a thought or formulating an idea or a transition phrase. I think it is more of an indication of where I am as a person. I am…
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Done enough?
I found a memory today on Facebook. The memory focused on the NCAA March Madness from 2021 when the inequity of the facilities for the teams competing in the Men’s and Women’s tournament. The article I posted that day redirected my friends to a quote from Dawn Staley, Head Coach, University of South Carolina Women’s…
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Words
It is easy to read the quote and understand the power of words. Most of us know from personal experience the affect of words on our psyche when we are most vulnerable. We realize that the intent was not malicious. It may even be more the delivery of the words than the words themselves. How…
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Often Enough
Some days the desire to create burns like zinc in my soul. It burns so hot and bright. It is almost blinding. But just like that fire of zinc, it is quickly consumed. There are so many ideas that circulate with in my mind, that grasping onto one and wrangling it into something coherent feels…
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Overcome
How do you fight the overwhelming desire to run away? The desire to go be alone so you can process the situation. The fight or flight even though there is nothing to fight and flight is defeat. You continue you on with life. You know it is what is expected and what is needed. You…
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The beginning
Today is the day that started it all. It is the day when the story began, 55 years ago. It has taken many twists and turns and many different avenues. Throughout them all, there is a story. One I have been not only telling but living. The thing about living the story is you often…
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