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Gleanings From Living Long
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Category: Inspiration
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Ignoring the conversation in your head that you've had over and over and over again, is a good way to rise above where you are to get to where you really really want to go. Yes, paying attention to yourslf is good medicine, and you need to become a good editor. …
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Now here's a gruesome thought… (bear with me) Since we – each and every one of us – (except those magicians among us) are going to die one day, then we really are the living dead. Rather than being a depressing thought, this idea has the potential to liberate us from the…
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There are so many scary movies around now, and tv shows that showcase murder and horror. If your everyday life were anything like that you'd live in a state of high anxiety. You'd be a mess. Our demons and monsters come out to play at Halloween. Our shadows are allowed to shine.…
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A fading hibuscus becomes a bye-biscus. Every hello is a good-bye. We never know how or when, but all beginings have their endings. Here's something I never knew, according to Webster, good-bye is a contraction of God be with ye.
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The maple tree leaves, my favorite autumn colors. What are yours? Do you have a favorite mum? How about those white pumpkins? Maybe we'll have purple pumpkins next year! Are you carving or baking them, or just enjoying their company? And always the perennial worry, what to do with the…
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Another season comes and goes, another year. The moments add up – beautiful moments, sad moments, anxious moments, and some golden moments. You can't grasp them – they're not for that, but you can notice with a breath, a moment in time. Breathe in… Maple leaves with…
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Ok, there is a name for this phenomenon. The sun is setting behind you, and looking east, there are rays of sun and shadow – created by what? St. Augustine Beach, this was opposite the previous photo. Rays in the west and east.
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Hovering clouds, here one day and gone the next. Sunshine follows, almost always.
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It has taken me a lot of lot of years, to finally knuckle down and really learn how to paint. Thanks to all my friends, who have given me brushes, and paints, and paper, and canvas, over the lot of years, and to the two friends who have bravely begun the arduous…
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