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Nov.30.2010
Another of Marisa’s photos, taken a few weeks ago up in Palo Alto. Softness and color, peace and tranquility. Maybe even some sensuality, which the study of a flower can be.
I have wondered at times if I would like to pursue trying to sell some of my photos, or try to make cards out of some of...
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Nov.27.2010
Just-in-time reality rescues my heart again –for Thanksgiving!
A dear friend sent me an email this past week with the following story.
The Law of the Wild says kill only when you are hungry!
Photographer Michel Denis-Huot, who captured these amazing pictures on safari in Kenya’s Masai Mara in...
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Nov.13.2010
I looked in my purse, checked the pockets of my jacket, and rummaged all around on the floorboard in my car and still couldn’t find the key to our mailbox. With growing chagrin and mounting dismay I didn’t want to admit that I thought I knew where it was.
We actually get our mail in two...
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Nov.07.2010
What is it about trees that turn brilliant yellow, red or orange that never fails to take my breath away? Neighborhood streets are lined with these glorious sentinels and the hillsides are peppered with them. Even the local cemetery where I often walk is resplendent with trees gone riotous with...
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Nov.01.2010
Like any good mother, Starline Nunley wanted to do something for her son. Her son is U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Parker Frawley. When asked what she could do for him, Frawley’s response was that he and the other men and women he served with in the Middle East were well supplied, but his four-...
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Oct.30.2010
The redwood out in front has produced a soft carpet of gorgeously brilliant, golden needles –and the rains have finally come. Everything in CiCi’s Garden looks invitingly fresh with rain-polished leaves glossy after a downpour.
Rain-polished leaves in CiCi's Garden
The past few weeks a...
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Oct.20.2010
Medical literature is unanimous on the causes of constipation:
Constipation it says is caused by ingesting foods devoid of fibre, insufficient exercise and behavioural problems in small children.
There is no mention of what foods to avoid beyond that. There is also no mention of how much fibre you...
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Sep.15.2010
Do You Feel as if you are over thinking a situation in your life? You may be in an Emotional Coma. It's time to Reboot!
An emotional coma is having a stagnant state of mind where you find yourself thinking perpetual thoughts that are useless to creating a life of happiness. Most people that take on...
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Aug.03.2010
I am wearing my stressed out hat today! It's worn and patched and torn and mangled and I can't make it look better. I can't hide it and I can't throw it away. Sometimes it makes me feel alive but most of the time it depresses me.
When I'm on a deadline, my stress hat is exciting...invigorating...
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Jul.23.2010
Pressure. Stress. Pressure. Stress.
I remember what it was like to be 10 years old on a summer day. Wake up. Eat breakfast. Get dressed. Go outside and play until lunch. After lunch go outside and play until dinner. After dinner rinse and repeat the next day. So went the days of summer....
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