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Whether we like it or not it all starts with ourselves. Inner acceptance that some things are just the way they are and we have to go on despite them is a hard lesson to learn. The acceptance that we have to love ourselves first to be loved and give love is also a hard concept. Having faith in something larger than ourselves is practiced throughout religions but how many people truly believe it

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Bathed in blue light, lost in her screen and living her life surrounded by Peace Globes, Mimi has pulled me in! Though I’m new to the blogging life and I’m not always the most up to date person in the blogging sphere of technology, I am definitely hooked on this woman’s writing and her mission. I participated in June and was overwhelmed with the responses to my post on peace and moved by the one’

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I worked Cy-Fest this past weekend at the college where I work. It is a Fall Festival of sorts with about 3000 participants. It was great fun and we were blessed with great weather. I was struck though by how careless people were with their trash. I was working the food area and was grateful to see those who were recycling their water bottles and throwing away their trash in the appropriate

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Here are some of my favorite plants to grow. I'm sure I would have followed in Georgia O'Keeffe's footsteps if I had been a painter. My grandmother could grow anything and loved flowers the best. I do better with greenery than flowers but I try!Cala Lily.GardeniaLemon TreeSweet MemoryVoodoo LillyBleeding HeartDogwoodJapanese MapleSaucer MagnoliaAngels TrumpetBougainvilleaHibiscusMy grandmother's

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Thirteen Things That Suck About NOT Blogging:1. My life if boring, only doing work. New position and broken arm do not mesh to make my life easier. Something had to give and blogging was one of them.2. I’m not doing any self-discovery or discovering some insight that will turn my life around.3. Missing out on reading everyone else’s blogs and seeing how they are doing.4. Makes me feel like a

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Cooking: These are some of my favorites to cook and some of my family and friends requests from my kitchen:1. Full buffet breakfast with homemade biscuits and gravy.2. Fresh fruits combined to create exotic flavor and I love to serve fresh fruit with all my meals.3. I love seafood and grew up with it but enjoy cooking shrimp the most. Shimp Creole and Shrimp Brochette are my favorites.4. Homemade

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Hi everyone! Came back from out of town with a broken arm so writing will be sparse over the next few weeks. But here is my Thursday Thirteen - Singing: 13 things I like about singing.1. Something that I’m still not as confident as I would like to be but I’m good.2. I was told my whole life I couldn’t sing by people in my life who could not stand the idea that I might have the same talents as

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Hey everyone! I won't be doing TT this week or next due to being out of town on a business trip! Look forward to sharing again on July 19th! Have a great fourth of July!

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Acting: As I have said before acting is something relatively new to me. I did play one of the aunts in “Arsenic and Old Lace” in like 8th grade. I was in choir last year and we did a tribute to Rodgers & Hammerstein. I was a nun in “The Sound of Music”, a nurse in a scene from “South Pacific” and I was Aunt Eller in “Oklahoma”. It is much easier to do one or the other, very hard to do both at the

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I have been going through some transitions in my life and especially about my career and how I wish it was more about my passions. More specifically my passion for writing. Hence the blogging web site. My mulling over some of the dilemmas worked into other thought patterns of where we are as women today. The question has been asked of me recently in an English class and again in a grant proposal.

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First, first forgive me because this list is vague but I’ve had a rough week. Music: A creation that can seep into your very soul. Can make you cry in an instant and feel joy in the next. To dance, to move, to make love to music is a wonderful joy. Music, as is writing, will always be a part of my life. Here is only a drop in the bucket of my favorite songs:1. Sweet Child of Mine – Guns &

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Movies take me away! Some movies that inspire me, make me think, and thoroughly entertain me or just allow me to escape:1. Stranger Than Fiction – Such a deep film. Yes, a movie with Will Ferrell in it that has depth! It has its quarks and can be hard to keep up with but I found it so imaginable and delightful in its playfulness with our concepts of life. It will make you think and you might have

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This exercise was a great way to get into the mind of LC-On the lake Front.Here are my Five Questions for you:1. Since you enjoy discussing philosophy with friends, I ask you--“Are the things that are valuable, valuable because we value them or do we value them because they are valuable?” My personal opinion is everything is subjective to what we put on it. ‘ It’ being something material or a

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1. My real name is Melinda and I love music and love to dance. Always have. It's a way to express myself and feel the music inside of me, not just hear it. From the time I was little everyone said I could dance to anything, even "Baby Elephant Walk".2. I have an extremely wonderful and close relationship with my daughter. If there is anything I can say I have done right it is being a Mom. Not to

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Reading has always been an escape for me and a learning tool. When I was younger, I only read fiction and of course as I grew older found my way into non-fiction. Here are a few of my favorite books:1. Cave Dreamers – Jeanne Williams - I have always been fascinated with the idea that we are one soul traveling from one entity to the next and carrying with us our special talents and gifts. It is

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Taking responsibility for your own choices in life and releasing the blame on others is the first step towards inner peace. No matter the circumstances you face in life it is up to you how you handle them. Eventually you are old enough to make your own choices as to how you handle your life and the past. Realizing that it is your responsibility to protect and nurture your own health and emotional

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My introduction to art was through books and enhanced by what I read, not just what I saw. Eventually writing came to me easier than drawing. These are a few of the things that have inspired my love of writing:1. Dreams: I am a perpetual dreamer in full Panavision color. Wrote my first novel in my dreams.2. Secrets: My own secrets and my curiosity about the world and how it works.3. Disney: The

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1. Writing: I’ve been a storyteller all my life. Though drawing was my passion when I was younger, writing has stayed with me and surely will for the rest of my days. Weaving details and descriptions and creating an alternate reality is a wonderful way to use your creative energies.2. Reading: Escapism and a learning tool. I always hope to get out of reading something to carry forward into my

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Writing for me has always been a love affair between ink and paper. To this day I love the feel of a book, new or old, between my fingers. The texture of its fibers and how the ink upon the pages changes its very being is a caress upon my skin. The scent of books is intoxicating, stirring feelings of anticipation as to how its words will make me feel or where they are going to take me. The

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Things I love effect me in different ways and have a story behind them all but for now here is my simple list:1. Writing2. Reading3. Movies4. Music5. Acting6. Singing7. Cooking8. Gardening9. Fast Cars10. Motorcycles11. Good Friends12. Good Food13. Rocking ChairsTT

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Are you aware of who you are? Are you aware of ‘who you are’ in connection to those around you? What do I mean? Your family, your best friend, the people you work with, the person you brush against in the hallway, the person half way around the world living in a different environment, culture a different lifestyle. Who are you in connection to these people?We are all connected in some way,

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Thanks to DaMocha I have this cool place to reflect on my birthday; thank you my friend! Looking back I am amazed at where I am in life now. Of course I have thoughts of grandeur that put me further in life making me as adventurous, wealthy and as important to saving our world as my alter ego Lara Croft. But I'm not. I hope that I can say and others would say that I have grown spiritually and

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Today represents another year, "Lara Croft," has graced the world with her presence. Now she will use this venue to grace you all with her thoughts. Welcome to On the Lake Front! Prepare yourself for mayhem because she is in training on how to embrace her "bitchness," and she is doing quite well. Share your your thoughts, share them all...have fun with this venue my friend and Happy Birthday.--Da

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