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by G.Thomas
The previous article about Actor Betty White brings to mind a certain sense of integrity. Career integrity. We may not be privy to the personal particulars of a persons life but outwardly we can be observant of choices that are fixed, even somewhat predictable.
When someone or even a [...]
by Stefanie Davenport
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve no doubt heard that Betty White is scheduled to host Saturday Night Live on May 8th. Besides the fact that it’s Betty White (!) hosting SNL, this wouldn’t be a big deal except that people were practically BEGGING her to do so. She even has [...]
Here is the story about an Olympic level athlete who is training as usual for world competition, which they do all those years between the Olympic competitions. She can be of any event because that doesn’t matter in this story. They all must train diligently in focused sometimes-painful practice all of the time [...]
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by G.Thomas
Summer is here! So what are those wonderful past times we have looked forward to doing alll winter? Remember those windy icy blistering days when just leaving the house required the fortitude of an armored commando? Layer upon layer we darbed our bodies in variours cottons,wools and undergarments. Well now here we are [...]
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By G.Thomas
Why is the practice of Father’s Day not only an annual ritual but is also a fundamentally essential component to a healthy functional family? The value of parenting and traditional values taught are not only beneficially to the individual family, but to a societies interactions as a large interwoven mosaic of cultures [...]
They may seem bogus at times and completely without some kind of foundation, mostly derived from a basis of opinion rather than any kind of actual statistical fact or figure. But so why the attraction?
It can be a way of validating our personal opinions or at least giving ourselves recourse to disagree [...]
By G.T.Stewart
I wish to share a little story that happened one particular night at a time when I was homeless. It was winter time and very cold. The air was sharp and crisp; the ground everywhere was snow. The winter had a fair ways left to go, which seemed like forever sometimes. However, this [...]
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Happy First
by: Roy E. Klienwachter
What is it that we are so afraid of? Why won’t we let go? A shark cannot rest, it cannot stop swimming or it will die, it will drown. Humanity seems to be acting in the same manner. It is though we are running for our lives. [...]
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What is it that people want to read when they are only surfing through the web in search of reading or catching a glimpse of something that can help formulate there thoughts for the day or perhaps even change from the thoughts they are presently having. Perhaps they want to find [...]
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Judy pressed tightly her sweater to her chest. Pressing more and more rigidly. Clenching. The wind of November had become increasingly harsh. Why had she not put on a jacket she thought. Oh yes that’s why. She remembered it was mild earlier in the afternoon [...]
What’s humor got to do with it? By Wee
Introduction:
Don’t take your self so seriously. You’ll not get out of this world alive.
One’s sense of humor involves the capacity to appreciate incongruity, absurdity, an unexpected future, a pleasant surprise, or a startle.
Humor helps soften life’s blows. For instance note the humor people express at funerals.
Participants in [...]
A celebration it was.It was the celebration of a few individuals who were graduating. The banquet hall was filled with people most of who were only separated by maybe one or two degrees, so that I noticed personal introductions were plentiful. Conversation and attentiveness thrived and was abundant. It seemed I think, that for the [...]
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Jim sat upright as the performers moved around the stage each contributing their integral part that made the creation possible. They would utter their lines with perfect execution as their expressions of character and interactions were made real. It was beautiful he thought. It was [...]
While reading a book recently titled; ‘ Growing Myself: A Spiritual Journey Through Gardening,’ By Judith Handelsman, I found myself thinking about the relationship one can have with their plants. Things like going through a transplanting ritual for the plant to familiarize it’s going to be transplanted. This brought to my attention the [...]
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Live like beasts or follow virtue and knowledge? I read this recently and gave it another thought. It is a human characteristic I am told, that we are the recipients of having the power and albeit the responsibility to decide just how we want to go with this. [...]
Security?
How about a more basic question: Just how much info do you put out there and/or how personal do you allow yourself to be? In a lot of circumstances I know, it seems imperative that you must give out personal information and even addresses to receive the services or applications. Right now in Canada the [...]
Is it about getting out of self, minimizing self concern, self-interest, or is it really about ‘changing’ self?
More so I think about changing how I am BEING self.
I am talking with someone and there it is. How am I being with this person? And what difference is it all anyway? So I think: [...]
While reading something about the subject of spirituality and ‘a God of our understanding’something of a cognition sparked to my mind. Of what importance, significance, value is it that the conception is complete and flawlessly all-encompassing? Surely, the desire to mindfully detail the architecture of a conception is human nature in varying degrees; [...]
Sometimes there are days that for one reason or another every trivial activity seems to have a burdensome feeling attached. Wondering why, I shrug and think or rather know that it probably has more to do with my attitude. But of course in the moment that helps me not. I remembered a story someone [...]
Memories That Work
by G.Thomas Stewart
Sometimes while wrapped up,immersed restricted, bound and imprisoned in our present day scenarios of our present day lives we are blessed and delighted to have a moment of clarity when we remember where we came from historically.
I scuttled about one evening performing my nightly tasks that would end my day and prepare [...]
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