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jeanne-mcelvaney's picture
Apr.20.2012
Healing from our childhood sexual abuse calls to us from a old gate on the side of the road we’ve been traveling. The path on the other side of gate is overgrown with memories we’ve dissociated or tried to ignore. The unmapped landscape beyond is heavy with stormy weather. Hope urges us to lift...
jeanne-mcelvaney's picture
Apr.06.2012
There are many ways to travel down the river of life. Imagine riding in a boat made from the energy you have gathered from your experiences and relationships as well as the energy you are creating with your beliefs, feelings, and thoughts. Seeing its shape, color, and size would reveal your...
jeanne-mcelvaney's picture
Feb.16.2012
With more than 40 thoughts washing through our mind ~ body ~ spirit connection each minute, we are forever teetering on the edge of our own possibilities. Many of our passing reflections reaffirm the reality we are creating. Just as many fleeting impressions are there to offer us choices. It’s...
sandra-f-ingerman's picture
Oct.11.2011
Greetings! Our destiny is to be creative just like the creator who created us. When we do not let our creativity flow our energy becomes blockes leading to a variety of femotional and physical issues. It is time for each of us to truly follow our soul's journey and to step into our inherent...
nina-amir's picture
Nov.30.2010
After 30 days of reading about writing and publishing nonfiction during the Write Nonfiction in November challenge, you might still wonder what special ingredient you need to create successful nonfiction books as well as articles, ebooks, and other information products. By “successful” I mean...
elizabeth-marcheschi's picture
Aug.28.2010
Human depth is ultimately our potential in life. To ponder those feelings, to stagger under the weight of the emotions that life brings to us - who we are, what have we done, what we aspire to do - is the measure of our potential in this life. Those who approach the simplest personal questions with...
george-h-schofield's picture
Jul.05.2010
The hotel elevator descended and my elevator companion, a man about my age, held the carnivorous doors open when we reached the lobby.  He looked at me and said in a superior tone “You seem in a hurry. That’s too bad. I never hurry any more.” I hustled across the hotel lobby dragging our wheeled...
sandra-f-carrington-smith's picture
Apr.14.2010
“I am here for a purpose, and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink into a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply all my efforts to become the highest mountain of all, and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.” ~ Og Mandino    As bothersome as they might appear to...
sandra-f-carrington-smith's picture
Jan.26.2010
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think yours is the only path.” ~ Paulo Coelho    Yesterday afternoon I was talking to someone who’s struggling with her...
dale-estey's picture
Oct.15.2009
 I was on the harbour, sitting on a bench and looking at the distant ocean. I had been there fifteen or so minutes when a voice intruded. An attractive and slender young woman stood, holding a huge pizza box. I realized she had been sitting at a picnic table when I got there. She asked if I wanted...