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The Need To Lean. . . .
The words hang in mid air never to be forgotten as the voice that smugly said, what’s so great about babies? Anyone can have a baby! And try telling that to the couple who have already spent thousands upon thousands of dollars just trying to do that. Have a baby. Would it come as a…
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Night Train From Chicago. . . .
A Matter Of Heart. . . The terminal was unbearably hot. The crowd was gathered ready to embark the train for points East. The luggage crowded the children who were crowding the legs of the adults. Handbags swayed menacingly as little children strayed too close. It was a hot and sweaty atmosphere and not…
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To Think Is A Hard Work . . with power to change a world. . . .
A reader wrote and asked how to make a difference. Teaching was his profession and of course his talents would be appreciated. As Americans, our first reaction has always been what can I do. Do being the operative word. How can we break this down to sizeable chunks to be effective. My first response is…
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Who Will Teach The Children?. . . .
With the hostile assault on the gay community and the families and people who love them this past week, with the events on our national scene which should bring us all to shame, and our consciences to alert, I think we are past all time when excuses and alibis ask for forgiveness. It is time…
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A Touch Of Grace . . .
June 14, 2016 Tuesday 5 a.m. What is Grace? Grace is a benevolent gesture bestowed to relieve a yearning, a burden shadowing a heart that is struggling for relief. It is a knowledge, an insight given to be applied to oneself to help understand and give this relief to someone yearning for answers, …
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Not Only One Way, but Many Ways. . . .
I am not certain when I started to think in an organized way that something would be demanded of me by these sons of ours and I could not be found inadequate. So even though I had been a serious reader of books, a change in habits arose and I began my Independent Study Program. …
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Staff of Life (for a reason). . .
Best bread I ever baked. . . and pass the butter. . . I don’t know where I have been since this recipe for no knead bread has been out, but I just want to tell you that never have I had so much fun baking bread as I have with this recipe. I have…
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A Value System. . . an observation
A Value System . .an observation. . . . If a camera had the depth of a highly evolved human eye, it would without difficulty show the values that surround the individual. It would show the depth of the value system. It would reflect what the intensity of the light portrays. It cannot show you…
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Moksha. . .excellence of purpose. . . .
Moksha. . .excellence putting meaning into life. . . . . Sometimes what we look for when I say ask for the larger picture is not what we wish or think we are supposed to see. The larger picture may not have the desired results that we think we deserve. The results may be completely…
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This Learning Place. . .
Frank Herbert’s Chapterhouse Dune has much that demands me revisiting. Reverend Mother Odrade as she visits Sheanna says that art comforts and reassures people. Please, she thinks, don’t upset me. Just reassure me, she says. And I know what pleases me looking at the primitive painting on my bedside wall of early Americana that…