Bible
March 8, 2010
- There is so much going on in my life and it keeps me so excited. A lot of challenges to work through, so many ideas that I find I am exhausted with the thoughts flooding my brain and doing my workbook. I have discovered on pg. 23 of this book that I have themes!! What that means to me is that my writing does in fact coincide with who Yolande is as a woman. I mean how amazing is that? I ...
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January 29, 2010
- Friends at the Theatre. I asked a friend of mine if she would like to join me for a day at the seashore. She is going through challenging times and I thought that a change of scenery would be good for both of us. Instead, we decided on a movie, because she wasn’t up to a two hour drive. “Any suggestions to what movie you would like to see?” I asked. ...
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January 21, 2010
- Everyone comes back to Jerusalem. I don’t know why, I really don’t.It’s too hot. The people can be offhandedly mean, and they drive as though they want to kill you. It isn’t a very pretty place once you look close. Oh and, yes, sometimes it gets violent. With shocking self-obsession, it thinks the eyes of the world are turned admiringly upon it all the time.Jerusalem sometimes seems like ...
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January 1, 2010
- Happiness is elusive and intangible. Its a word that I have found at times quite replusive. For a lot of selfish acts are done in the name of one seeking "their Happiness". What is the root of that word?. I could look it up but alas its not in me to do so now or really ever. Not sure how it would be defined or the words origin. But since its caused so much angst in me I shall pass.So am ...
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December 30, 2009
- Law of Attraction doesn’t work for most people for the same reason prayer doesn’t for its practitioners. The former, just as the latter, is based on an assumption that the universe, or God, is benevolent and generous. The Law of Attraction or, as it is known in the Bible, the Law of Believing and, sometimes, the Law of Asking and Receiving, all refer to the same law. ...
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December 26, 2009
- It's the day after Thanksgiving in the bustling kitchen of Willis Barnstone's book-filled home in Oakland's Piedmont Avenue neighborhood. The 82-year-old poet, translator and literary critic has just typed out a poem about what happened the day before yesterday - when he tripped at the Chinese restaurant just down the street from City Lights bookstore in North Beach, bumping his head and nearly ...
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December 9, 2009
- Ever Hear of “The Family”? Get Ready…Fear or disinterest? The powers that be don’t care why we don’t discuss how our oppressions work together to isolate us while sustaining their power and positions, so long as we don’t turn our attentions to them and their puppetry. Why should you get mixed up in the issue of health care for gay partners when you’re straight? What does the ...
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November 29, 2009
- Rain on the streets of Bethlehem can't cool simmering tension. By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPost BETHLEHEM, West Bank — A writer seeks the surprise of a “man bites dog” story. The most violent times of the Second Intifada, which took place under the leaden winter skies of early 2002, gave me mine. I wrote about Arabs in the rain. It was raining in the city of Jesus’ birth throughout ...
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November 7, 2009
- As a youngster, I developed the worst habit – whining until I would get my way. I remember vividly, whining every Saturday morning, begging my father to take me to the Oaks Roller Skating Rink. I doggedly hounded him until he would take me over there and drop me off, just to get me out of his face! He would give me enough money to roller skate for 4 ½ hours and then he would be there to ...
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November 7, 2009
- Do you have those moments when you have to remind yourself that you have faced worse challenges - and made it through? Thus, this (challenge) too shall pass?I remember times in my past when it seemed hopeless, that all was lost. Looking back, I see where I stepped into that situation, suffered, and found my way through into a better world and new experiences. Sometimes, the situation didn't ...
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