Why Mr. Rogers And I Have No Problem With Cinderella – 1000Speak
I grew up with Mr. Rogers. And I am not ashamed to to tell you that the gray in my hair means I watched his show back when there was no gray in his. I loved Mr. Rogers. I loved everything about his show from his silly opening song to his cardigan sweater and sneakers to the…
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TToT – In The Silence
It is silent. Right now, my house is utterly and completely silent. It is a different kind of quiet than the one that exists here during the day when I’m working here alone. Then I hear the construction noises from the new development across the field. I hear cats doing cat things. I hear cars…
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The Best Thing I Did Lately
I am not much of a joiner. I never have been, really. I was not the kid who joined a lot of clubs in school. I was part of one or two things that were important to me. In general, I prefer to lend my support to causes and activities from behind the scenes or…
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TToT – The One With All The Excitement
This has been an exciting week. And it’s not over yet, so I’m squeezing this in to make sure I make it to the TToT party before I’m off again. This one’s moving fast, friends, so hang on… My first-ever guest post over at Pat DiCesare’s blog went so well. I am thankful for the…
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FTSF – Time Enough for Important Things
I am a fairly cranky person. You know that character in Steel Magnolias – Ouiser? I’m her. Given that, you might think this post would come easily. Wrong. I sat for an hour last night trying to figure out what would work for this post and came up totally blank. It’s not because I’m…
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Moving Forward – A 1000Speak Postlude
So here we are, more than a week later. A great many of us have been riding the wave of good feeling that has come from the 1000 Voices Speak for Compassion project and it has been a wild ride indeed. I have read dozens and dozens of posts by so many wonderful people and believe me,…
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TToT – Hang On for the Wild Ride of Change
Sometimes I have more emotions than I can handle. This week has been a particularly emotional roller coaster ride, full of ups and downs. Just about the time I thought things were moving along well, BOOM! Life throws those twists and loops in when you least expect them.
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TToT – House-Warming
I am losing my patience with winter. I know, I know. Everyone is tired of it and everyone is cold and nobody wants to hear anyone else complain anymore. I agree. We are house-bound today due to both weather and illness, so I turned to my good friend Thoreau for some help. Because if I…
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Compassion Is Hard – A 1000Speak Confession
Compassion is hard. To feel a sincere sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others? That’s hard. To feel that along with a strong desire to ease the suffering? Harder still. It is far easier to push those feelings way down inside of us and it is much easier to pretend we…
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One From the Archives – Every Day Love
This post originally ran on the blog on February 15, 2014. It’s worth saying again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I’ve been thinking a lot about love the last couple of days. For starters, there’s that rather large and obvious thing called Valentine’s Day that has just passed us by. Kinda can’t miss that. Love it or hate it,…
