Guilty Pleasure Songs Everyone has their guilty pleasure songs. Mine are Mandy Moore’s “Wanna Be with You” and “Two Princes” by the Spin Doctors. This past Friday night, while I was out roller skating with my boys, I was enjoying my Mandy Moore fix when Savage Garden came up next in the “suggested songs” queue. […]
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I spent a number of years studying NDE’s (near death experiences). One of my favorite moments comes towards the end of the experience, just before the soul chooses to return to the body. The soul comes before a proverbial stadium full of supporters applauding their efforts in growth and service. This is something seemingly only
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You are the ocean; I am a wave. I am a part of you. I am the ever changing, ever volatile. I am a playground for dolphins, a challenge for surfers, a delight for small children playing where I meet the sand. I smooth over the sharp places and sculpt the shoreline as I dance.
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We make life so much harder on ourselves than we need. The suffering our minds put us through…so often concerned about what will be or what happened that we are rarely conscious and aware of what is right in front of us. Right now, as I’m writing this post, my mind is: Wow! That’s a
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Sleeping to Escape Reality There’s an REO Speedwagon song that used to serve as my alarm back in high school. In the ballad, a man desires to stay asleep so that he can dream that the woman he loves also loves him in return. Since his dreams were better than his waking life, he longed
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The Taylor Swift Effect I’m a bit like Taylor Swift…if I know you, chances are, I’m going write about you at some point. I try to be discreet. I said next to nothing in my blog about my late husband until after his passing. And unless I ask your permission first, there’s not going to
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Last night, I woke from deep sleep, Forgetting where I was. This isn’t that unusual. The light plays tricks on the eyes at times Shadows mixing with distant memories And I misplace myself in my childhood home Or a place I recently visited to get away from it all. But this time was different. “Bedroom,”
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Free will is one of the most hotly debated topics in philosophy. Being the nerd that I am, I have read a decent amount of that philosophy and found the arguments for free will to be lacking. However, as Shakespeare so beautifully wrote, “there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of
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Childhood Poets My oldest son enjoys writing poetry. Perhaps I’m biased, but I think he’s quite skilled. Some of his poems miss the mark, but some are objectively quite good. Age It may be a number but actually it is a blank page on which to orchestrate your purpose. Turtle Turtle looks from its shell-covered
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The Stranger One of my favorite childhood memories is hearing my dad whistling (slightly off-key) the intro to Billy Joel’s “The Stranger”. Something in me understood the lyrics to this song even as a young child. Yet, as an adult, I prefer another term for it: “the shadow”. We all have parts of ourselves that
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