Relationships

Give Yourself To Love

Give yourself to love. Never be afraid to love. Love the tender young, the wise old, animals (big and small). Love the tiniest of plants to the largest of trees. Love the air, earth, the water, the energy all around you. Love new acquaintances and lifelong friends, men, women, your ancestors, your children, your parents. [...]

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When You Remember, You’ll Want To Remember

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

Each year we have what seems, more and more, like only snippets of time to share with the ones who mean so much to us. Therefore, I am asking you to consider giving them the gift that matters more than the “latest” or “greatest” newly designated “whatever” that some Madison Avenue think tank is pushing [...]

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Happily Ever After: Cinderella’s Journey Home One Dog Stood Alone

by Moments Count

From the ASPCA blog: Fairytales do come true. In June, 2010 ASPCA responders deployed to rural Tennessee, to assist with a critical hoarding intervention. The scene was heartbreaking. More than 80 dogs were found living among trash and debris. Some were housed in overcrowded pens and some were chained to posts, while others roamed the [...]

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Portraits from Kathputli Nagar

by Shoot 4 Change

(Text and Photos by: Isaak J. Liptzin ) I arrived in Jaipur intending to stay only for a few days, but I ended up meeting a group of people who lived in the Kathputli colony. (click to see the photogallery) I visited their home, and spoke to them about the school they were trying to [...]

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The Meal. The Moment. The Memory.

by Lauren Rosenfeld

If you only looked at the raw ingredients, it didn’t really amount to much. Pancake mix. Water. Food coloring. But then there were other ingredients as well: creativity, ingenuity, resourcefulness, cooperation, generosity, lovingkindness. James and I [...]

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Reflections on Black Friday

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

Yesterday I was reading an article about a Black Friday event. The piece was reporting on one of those incessantly advertised sales at a large retailer. You know the type, one of those scenes where people wait outside in line for hours, sometimes even days, to get whatever discounts the retail store tosses out as [...]

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Be Amazed: No Moment is Ever Truly Ordinary!

by Lauren Rosenfeld

(There is a) statement from the book of Ecclesiastes “There is nothing new under the sun.” And I disagree with that statement! I would say there is nothing stale under the sun, except that human beings become stale. I try not to be stale. And everything is new. No two moments are alike – and [...]

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People I’ve Met Along The Way – Helen Keller

by John W Strobel III

I have met so many interesting and famous people in my lifetime that I sometimes forget about those were not as famous as some but were highly interesting, none the less. In my working career as a newsman-journalist in Los Angeles, I had the opportunity to meet many and varied personalities from the fields of [...]

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On The Road

by Alexandra Wallace

I spent more than half of my September on the road this year, traveling from bright Las Vegas to dusty Arizona, through the stunning Mesa Verde, and through corn. So. Much. Corn. The main destination of this adventure was to see my grandmother Elizabeth, or Bette, as we all know her as, for her ninety-sixth [...]

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Yard Sale Zen

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

Last weekend I had a yard sale. There is a Zen to yard sales. Yard sales – they are interesting events. At a yard sale, people show you all kinds of things about themselves, whether or not they intend to. Some come to buy. Some come to wander. Some come to haggle. Some come to [...]

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