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Gleanings From Living Long
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Category: Inspiration
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Safe enough to sleep wherever exhaustion steals you away and to know that you are surrounded by family and friends. Faith that you are loved and accepted for who you are and that you can love like that too, without expectations. And a heart big enough to see the blessings wrapped…
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How do you sweeten your life? Chocolate? Long walks on the beach? Time spent with friends? Fragrant flowers? It's a good day for some sweetness! (You can almost smell the plumeria!)
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Sometimes a little time apart is all that is needed. Not too far apart, and not for too long, just for a little while, in the shade, out of the sweltering heat. Just for a little while, and all will be well.
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Little feet in the ocean for the first time. "It's cold, mommy, what are you trying to do to me?" Spoken, of course, with a cry for mercy, the language of the tiny ones. But the water is delightful, once you get used to it! Like life – once you…
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The sun was setting and shining shyly on the waves after hiding all day, and then this! Rainbow after Isaac, Ormond Beach, Forida.
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Rain showers over the ocean. The outer edges of a tropical storm are headed our way. Some people break out the champagne when a hurracane is imminent, (after all faithful and diligent preparations have been completed, of course). Others worry for days and nights in advance. When I was a kid…
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What does it take to open a gate? The right key, or a secret code, or maybe a special knock? How about a heart? How to open a heart? What's the special knock? The secret code? And once it's opened, how to keep it that way? And what does it…
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After a long day, a soft reflection. Too tired to make any sense of it!
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The year that this photo was shot was a very good year for whale watching. "Very good," being defined as lots and lots of whales. What's a very good year for you? Lots and lots of…? Fill in the blank. Sometimes our most difficult years turn out to be our…