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F – The Real Skinny on FORGIVENESS

  When we forgive, we intentionally undergo a change in our feelings and attitude.  The feelings and attitudes that we choose to alter, stem from our having first regarded another human being as being an offender, or if it is an action we are forgiving, we have first had to deem the behavior as offensive. The change we undergo transforms the original negative feelings such as vengefulness,…

E – Emotions and How to Cope

They can be extremely powerful, powerful enough to overtake us and also powerful enough to render us paralyzed at times. We all have them.  About pretty much everything, all the time. We all have to deal with them although many of us choose to push them away, hoping if we shove hard enough, we will rid ourselves of the ones we don’t want.

But not too many of us have managed to figure out the…

D – Discovering our True, Inner Selves

An old re-made television game show, To Tell the Truth is known for the resounding question posed after all the celebrity votes have been cast for the contestant they believe is the one honest person. “Will the real (fill in the blank with the full name of the contestant) please stand up?”

Each of us lives our lives every day and portrays many various versions of our selves. There is the mom…

C – Need for Connection

Everywhere you look, people of all ages and sizes, from all walks of life, are spending more and more time with some type of hand-held devise, their eyes trained intently on some type of screen.

WELCOME TO THE CELLULAR AGE!

If you look closely and deeply at things (something I am guilty of doing too often perhaps, you will see that although these children are together, CONNECTED to their…

B is for BALANCE

I’ve never really thought about the symbolism in the way the letter B is shaped…Despite its curves and arches, it balances perfectly upon itself. And I ask myself, what better way to represent today’s B post than with BALANCE.

It is one of those things that has become increasingly important in my life over time, without my having noticed. Truthfully, I spent many years never giving it much…

A – About Acceptance

As I sit to contemplate how to begin, I feel as if there is something extremely appropriate in starting with ACCEPTANCE. Somehow, it seems not only applicable to the blogging challenge I am undertaking, but to something wider in scope, more of the bigger picture on a grander scale.

So, lets go there – to this grander scale, together, just for a few moments and look at what ACCEPTANCE has…

A to Z Blogging 2019 – Happy 10th Anniversary

Without further ado, let me introduce my renewed commitment to blog with this wonderful challenge this year.

This challenge encourages bloggers or would-be bloggers to try their hand at discovering something new and hopefully interesting to blog about for the duration of working through topics of interest that correspond to the letters of the alphabet.

I am quite fascinated with the…

Where I’ve Been

One of my favorite sayings of all times (and please excuse me if I don’t get it exactly as penned) is from the lyrics of the brilliance that was John Lennon. The song is called “Beautiful Boy” and can be found on the “Double Fantasy” album.

In the song, John sings to his son Sean:

Before you cross the street take my hand Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans

I don’t…

One Man’s Trash

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It has been said pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Is it just me, or do those few words speak volumes? Anyone who knows me, at one time or another, finds themselves in the midst of onslaughts regarding the connection between how we live our lives and how we see things.

I have been known to go as basic as the half-empty half-full images, all the way up…

A NEW MEANING FOR BEING WORN OUT

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Have you ever sat down to write something because you know it is the thing you ought to do, and not have a clear idea whatsoever what it is you want to write about?

Oh wait. You’re a writer. Of course you have!

Most likely, there isn’t a single writer on this planet, with prepared, detailed outlines and thousands of dollars in writing courses behind them or not, who hasn’t had…

My Own Next Step

We hear so much about it – many of us tend to avoid it – often at all costs. Some of us claim to look forward to it, but in honesty, we do not at all, in fact we fear it. It evokes the unknown in almost all of us and that is not a comfortable place to be.

Change is necessary, but it is also some place difficult for most of us to get to, especially those of us who are seeking self-honesty and…

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I always find it interesting how words and their meanings seem to evolve. I start out thinking I ‘get’ it – that it makes sense to me and I am able to wrap my brain around the concept, but somehow it changes or it adds on a different component that I missed entirely. Or even in some cases, that I had it all completely wrong.

Very often, I experience this morphing sensation…

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Something I’ve come to realize is that my own, personal happiness can’t survive once it gets diluted with conditions. It gets diluted, of course, by me – although never with this being my intention, or for that matter, rarely with me being aware I am doing it. It is something that happens beneath the surface, not something easily recognized or realized.

This is how it…

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I know this isn’t my usual type of post, but today I got the chance to play mom when our 17-year-old foster daughter got her heart broken by the boy she’s been dating for the past 6 months. It’s not a role I play very often, but I found quite a few more life-lessons to be had in light of this particular situation…so here goes.

It has been said that some people would rather…

An Ode to Y

As I compose ideas and thoughts for today’s post, I am absolutely amazed that I have come through this challenge. But before I go further down that path, I will disclose today’s Y topic.

Interestingly, when the letters are not the most common, or when I find it difficult for whatever reason, to settle on a topic for the post, I have found myself resorting to searching. I quickly punch in the…

Having said that, I set off to find a word that contained something I might be able to relate to and that, right…