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The local Starbucks coffee shop changes with the seasons. New mugs, new coffee packaging, new displays. And of course, decorations… Yesterday Christmas decorations went in as my hubby and I sat reading, over coffee. Snow-frosted pine garlands crossed over the tops of shelves and poked their message of good cheer in and out of everywhere. [...]
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Is being a Rascal a good thing? Do I know any? Am I one? I saw a blog post today that quoted Chris Brady — a businessman, best-selling author, speaker, and a self-proclaimed Rascal — in listing several qualities of a Rascal. According to @RascalTweets: A Rascal is a guy or gal who makes a [...]
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How important is it to you, at day’s beginning, to know what you will have done by day’s end? I ask myself, Do I know what I want to have done by bedtime tonight? Enough that I … Plan for it? Dress for it? Mark out an hour or several in my planner to tackle [...]
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Yesterday I got a survey-type email from a friend that asked what I’d rather be doing, my favorite foods, fragrances, etc. I don’t normally take such surveys. I just read them and then delete. But this one made me think a minute… I was asked what smells really good to me? I like to breathe [...]
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Must we always do things we’ve always done just because we’ve always done them? I used to cook. And decorate the food. When Wes and I were first married, I learned to cook on a budget because money was definitely scarce, and much of what little we both made as teachers had to be saved [...]
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My friend Donna rapped on my door one night as I sat down to read the paper before dinner. She stood in the drizzle of rain mixed with twilight, her face barely visible under a hooded sweatshirt. Just for a bit of conversation she said. I was delighted! I crave the kind of friendship that [...]
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I fell in love as soon as I opened the photos for last week’s Weekend Drawing Event at WetCanvas. His name is Jack… He’s so young, but I see a child who appears comfortable with who he is so far. Maybe he is loved enough to be who he is. That’s a comforting thought. He [...]
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Can we heal emotional hurts by reading and relating to fictional stories? I think so… At Every Day Thoughts from Life readers were invited to look at and give critique to the beginning of a short story called Death of the Heart, written by Sal Vilardo. As the story opens, a young man named Micca [...]
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