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• MS.MONTIER'S MAGIC MINTS

  November 21, 2009

  • Georgia is among 28 states considered to be a right to work state, which really means your employer has free rein to fire you without concern of a backlash from unions, lower wages and benefits, diminished standards of living, and no job security. In a sense this translates into fear among employees and abusive relations in the workplace. So when I attended orientation for a new job at one of the ...
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• THE ROLLER COASTER OF LIFE

  November 20, 2009

  • ENJOY THE RIDE!This past Halloween, I visited Six Flags and waited in line for almost two hours to get a ride on the 'Goliath', one of the larger roller coasters in North America. Even in the drizzle and cold weather, I felt warm and prickly inside, excited by the anticipation of the enormous 200 foot climb to the top. Finally, I boarded a car, seated next to a stranger, who was equally charged ...
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• Manifest Destiny

  November 10, 2009

  • Curiously, I have been a prisoner of my own mind, awaiting someone or something to release me. Thoughts and perceptions had deceived me into thinking I  possessed an open mind as I watched life through a glass prison door. A catalyst move me; a liberator of perspective relinquished the hold and removed the walls of my unconscious incarceration.Choosing to live freely and happily is a challenge ...
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• GODDESS PELE

  November 6, 2009

  • Born in Tahiti, Pele is the Hawaiin Goddess of fire, lightning, volcanoes, dance, and violence. Landing first at Ni'ihau, then Kauai, Pele moved down the chain of islands in order of their geological formation, eventually landing on the Big Island's Mauna Loa. As a word in the Hawaiian language her name, pele, means molten lava. She is not, therefore, a spirit who lives in the molten lava, she is ...
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