What Stories Do You Tell Yourself? Oct 18, 2021

"Self respect is produced by inner triumphs, not external ones."

--David Brooks

 

The first time I quit drinking was when my ex-husband and I split up. It was his fault, after all (yeah, right.) I totally quit cold turkey and began a fitness craze with a vengeance.  I worked really hard...

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Rake In Your Harvest Oct 04, 2021

" So let’s not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don’t give up, or quit."

 

--Paul, the Apostle

I love this time of year! It's still warm and sunny, but usually not above eighty degrees. The nights and...

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Make The Chili Sep 27, 2021

"Tomorrow is never promised, so love and appreciate the people who are in your life."


--Me

 
Last week I wrote about Dennis's and my encounter with Covid and the awareness that we developed from going through that together. There's one more message that I would like to share with...
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Attitude IS Everything, Especially During Covid Sep 20, 2021

"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."

--Scott Hamilton

I wrote this email a couple weeks ago and just never sent it.  Dennis and I both caught Covid and life was upended for a bit. We weren't too adversely affected, and we didn't want anyone to know because we didn't want to...
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Baggage...or Memories? Sep 06, 2021

"Wouldn't it be great if emotional baggage could be lost just as easy as aircraft luggage?" 

 Anonymous

My Facebook memories have been about the move from Grandview to Tri-Cities that we made September 3, 2019. I'm still amazed at all the stuff we had accumulated in...

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What Are Competing Commitments? Aug 30, 2021

"Until we deal with our "head trash" nothing is going to change."

--Jan McDonald

 

Can you believe it's almost September? What happened to this year? It's the last quarter of 2021 and how are we doing with our goal achievement? I've been reflecting on the progress that I'm making toward...

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Do You Hear Them? Do You Hear the Rattle? Aug 24, 2021

"...there was a noise, a rattling sound and the bones came together, bone to bone...and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet."

--Ezekiel 37:7, 10 The Bible

 

On my way to hike Badger Mountain the other day, I heard the song by Elevation Worship, “Dry Bones...

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Rule #6 Aug 16, 2021

"Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

--Shakespeare

I've been reading (very slowly this time) through a book by Wayne Dyer, "The Power Of Intention." I've been writing about peace and leadership and how that is supposed to look, so I don't think it's any coincidence that...

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