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Family: Heartfelt Love or Heartbreak Horror

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We all have family. Some of us live under the same roof with them. Some have never met them. Some avoid them at all costs. There is the quip about why families come together once a year at holiday time: To realize why they don’t come together more often. Family, however it manifests itself in [...]

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Make a Wish

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What is the thing you most want or wish for? Place no limits on your answer to this question. Let your mind go wherever it chooses. Is what comes to mind something you wish for yourself or something you want for someone else? What do you visualize will be different when this change materializes? What [...]

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Full Speed Ahead

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How do you sail through your life? What I am asking you is if you are the Captain of your life’s journey or a Passenger on your voyage? Do you choose to accept responsibility for making the decisions about the course you intend to take? Or, do you prefer to look out across the vastness [...]

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What I Ask

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What can one ordinary person do when they give themselves permission to be the best that they can be?  What is the yardstick that you use to measure your personal worth? Music Credits:  Kevin MacLeod Please share this story!

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“I Can Change Him/Her”…Wanna Bet

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Lordy, lordy, lordy, when will we learn we can’t change others, even if they ask for our help. This is all the more impossible – if there’s something more impossible than impossible – when someone has not asked for your help. Victoria Rowell (b. 1959), actress, dancer and mother of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis’ son, used [...]

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Seasons of Love

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Our lives are finite.  They may be long, short, or somewhere in between.  Jonathan Larson could not know he would live just until the day before his Broadway hit, Rent, premiered.  But, without knowing just how limited they were, he made the moments he had count.   Visit Brooke’s website here. Please share this story!

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You Know That I’ll Be Reaching For Higher Ground

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“Given the possibility of living up to the dream in me, you know that I’ll be reaching for higher ground.” John Denver (Higher Ground) Throughout my life and my career I have recognized when the conversations within me asked me, moved me, pushed me to take paths of new, powerful and unique challenge. Such was [...]

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We are a giant Web, truly a Social Network…so, why do we so often forget that?

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About a decade ago my mother and stepfather, because of a series of unfortunate investments and dismal financial missteps, found themselves living in their motor home in a shopping mall parking lot. Different people approach the world and its circumstances in different ways. For my stepfather, well, it was a grand adventure. My parents were [...]

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The Opinion of Others

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How often do the opinions of others tug at you, pull you in one direction or another? Do you, would you, have you changed the things that are important to you, have meaning to you, because of the opinions of others? What happens to those things that matter to you when the opinions of others [...]

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At this spot on the path

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iPhones use the download link to listen Sometimes we wish those we love would make different choices for their lives. These choices of theirs can mean they will move down a different path than the one we are traveling on, creating distance or separation between us that we do not want. How can we handle [...]

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