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The Coup of the Three Little Pigs

“When you’ve written to your president, to your congressman, to your senator and nothing, nothing has come of it, you take to the streets.” Erica Bouza “He don’t take shoving.”  Jerry Parsons “I resist, therefore I am.”  James W. Douglass … Continue reading

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How Do We Deal with Change; Or Do We?

“Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness… Permanence means paralysis and death.  Only in movement, with all its pain, is life.”  Jacob Burckhardt “One never knows what will happen if things are suddenly changed. But do we know what … Continue reading

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What Memories Drive Us in Life?

What do YOU love doing?  Has it impacted your life?  If so, how? I have always LOVED the water.  I wonder if I was an otter or a dolphin in a different life?  But when I was 13 I had … Continue reading

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2018 A to Z Challenge… (my way) ;-)

“If it was a worthwhile fight, it didn’t matter who won; some good was sure to come of it.”  Richard Brooks “Conflict is the gadfly of thought.  It stirs us to observation and memory.  It instigates to invention.  It shocks … Continue reading

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Keep on Keeping On!!

  Victory comes, at times, just when one no longer expects it.”  Martin Buber “The greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.”  The Dhammapada: The Path of Perfection “The first step towards victory… is to gain courage.”  Plutarch “How … Continue reading

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Respect One Another

“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”  Albert Einstein “We are called to play the good Samaritan on life’s roadside; but that will be only an initial act.  One day the whole Jericho road must be … Continue reading

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Kids Say the Darndest Things…

  “We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson “To make other people laugh is no great feat so long as one does not mind … Continue reading

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Welcome to a Caregiver’s World

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the things which you think you cannot do.”                    — Eleanor Roosevelt “If you can’t change your fate, … Continue reading

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Liebster Award 2016 – Gwynn’s Grit and Grin

I I share Samantha Mozart’s words when I say I am pleased to announce that I have been given the Liebster Award for 2016. This marks the second year I have received the award; the first was for 2014. The … Continue reading

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The Right to be Heard

“Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.”  Thomas Jefferson “Opinion is power.”  Thomas Jefferson In the middle of the night, it came to me that if we are not given a voice as children, that sometimes we … Continue reading

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