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Blog post“You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don’t have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn’t mean they apply to you.” ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave It is a good excuse to tell yourself when you are terrified of flying out into the unknown. I’ve been there … Continue reading Everything Is A choice →
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Blog postFor several years, I had been bored. Not a whining, restless child’s boredom (although I was not above that) but a dense, blanketing malaise. It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be discovered ever again. Our society was utterly, ruinously derivative (although the word derivative as a criticism is itself derivative). We were the … Continue reading Secondhand Experience →
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Blog postWords… They’re fake bullets, so why do I feel like I’m bleeding out? ― Jodi Picoult As I said already before in one of my posts: Even after all these years, words still have the power to hurt me. I said also that words are like knives. It can only hurt us if it hits the … Continue reading Handle With Care →
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Blog post“I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous creature. I think that one of the things that male patriarchal figure has done is, allowed under it’s, his church, his wing, all kinds of corruptions and villainies to grow and fester. In … Continue reading In God We Trust →
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Blog post“Believe nothing you hear and only one half that you see.” ― Edgar Allan Poe Yeah, don’t take anything at face value. In this life, you never know… And according to my son, you can’t even trust your own mind-mine at least- because it could play tricks on you too. Not everything you see and hear … Continue reading The World We Live In →
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Blog postThere are people in this world who like to spend time alone, away from the hustle and bustle of extroverts. Others might think that they are this way because they are shy and don’t have the confidence to merge with bigger groups but that’s not so. They are strong, confident individuals who know exactly what … Continue reading Those Who Prefer to Be Alone Have These 21 Unique Personality Traits →
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Blog postWord I have learned today: insidious adjective proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects. synonym: stealthy, subtle, surreptitious, sneaking, cunning, crafty, Machiavellian, artful, guileful, sly wily, tricky, slick, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, underhand, backhanded, indirect informal: sneak My ex-husband said to me that I pretend to be intelligent but the truth is I’m stupid
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Blog postBy Sonia Devine “The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” ~Steve Furtick It’s in our nature to compare ourselves with others. The ability to weigh one situation up against another helps us make decisions and live our lives productively. The downside is that when you constantly compare … Continue reading How to Stop Envying Other People’s Seemingly Perfect Lives →
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Blog post“I used to think that finding the right one was about the man having a list of certain qualities. If he has them, we’d be compatible and happy. Sort of a checkmark system that was a complete failure. But I found out that a healthy relationship isn’t so much about sense of humor or intelligence … Continue reading The Secret Life of Prince Charming →
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Blog post“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.” ― David Lynch Does the … Continue reading In The Sea →
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Blog postDo you know the boiling frog story? If a frog is placed in cold water and the heat is slowly turned up, the frog does not realize that it is in danger—until the water reaches the boiling point, and then it is too late for the frog. I have been the frog in cold water, … Continue reading I Was in an Abusive Relationship & Didn’t Know It. →
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Blog postThat’s not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings. We live, we … Continue reading Here’s Another Year →
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Blog postBrad Paisley said: Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one. Fair enough. But how to do it? One subject they never teach in any school is how to cope with life. They never teach us how to be a wife, a mother or how to keep a relationship … Continue reading 365 Blank Pages →
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