No More Noise!
I think I’d give up my hearing. I am easily distracted by sounds and noise. Too much makes me anxious and not able to concentrate. I get frustrated by it, especially when I’m trying to write! If...
View ArticleFour Top Items and a Fifth!
If I had to leave my home in a hurry the items I would take would be: I’m assuming I already have the living breathing items, such as my husband, daughter and dog:-)) After that I think it would be my...
View ArticleWhere in the world would I go?
A peaceful, small mountain community in the Rockies. Hopefully my home would be surrounded by pine trees, but not too dense as to let the sunshine through. There would be a body of water I could...
View ArticleAll Skate!!
It’s a tough thing, getting back to writing when it’s been months. It’s somehow equal to years and years of not riding a bike or roller skating. It’s scary, and you think why bother? It reminds me...
View ArticleSmall Things With Great Love–Part 1
Words are having a hard time coming to me lately. Usually I am full of them and have been known to rattle on repeating myself. But the events of the last few weeks have left me a bit on the empty...
View ArticleSmall Things With Great Love–Part 2
In an article in the Wall Street Journal dated February 12th, 2013, Elizabeth Bernstein talks about “compassionate love” as—recognizing a partner’s needs and concerns and putting them ahead of your...
View ArticleSmall Things with Great Love–Part 3
Step Ten: Continued to Take Personal Inventory and , When I WAS Wrong, Promptly Admitted it!! After my bitter-sweet, up and down time with my nephews passing and my honeys anniversary gift, you’d...
View ArticleRipe or Rotten?
“What Does (or would) the fruit of a “heart of wisdom” look like in your life?” The text (not from a phone:)) focused on “Numbering our days.” Making our days count for something other than us merely...
View ArticleThe Answer
Clayzmama recently wrote in her blog, about the fact that she’d just discovered, “That there is more than the first four lines in Reinhold Niebuhr’s famous Serenity Prayer!“ I knew this fact already,...
View ArticleSTOP, LOOK AND LISTEN
As I read a post from a favorite blogger of mine at http://mypurposenow.org. I thought of myself at times of being overwhelmed with life and living. And I remember what helped me get to the place of...
View ArticleSometimes Quickly, Sometimes Slowly
“Sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly,” IS a quote you might hear often in the rooms of AA Meetings. It is a reference to the developing life of someone who is in recovery, learning to live a new life...
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