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On the Importance of Forgiveness
Turns out that forgiving is the healthy thing to do, not just for others, but for yourself as well: On the Importance of Forgiveness by Michael Romani Emotional blockages put us ill at ease And this manifests itself in physical … Continue reading
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Tagged Acid, Anger, Animosity, Blame, Brain, Burdent, Communicate, Confession, Cycle, Disease, Drama, Emotional Blockage, Fire, Forgive, Forgiveness, Fright, Game, Give, God, Heal, Heart, Ill At Ease, Inflammation, Inner Child, Judgment, Learn, Let Go, Letting Go, Live, Mercy, Moment, Path, Pause, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Realize, Serenity, Soul, Strain, Stress, Take, Temple, Trauma
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In Memory of D-Day
God bless those who lived and died for liberty all those many years ago. Peace is that better place we would all prefer to live. Dying is the price some are willing to pay so that others might have that … Continue reading
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Tagged Aging Eyes, Civilization, Commemoration, D-Day, Die, Honor, Liberty, Live, Memory, Normandy, Price, Sacred Trust, Sacrifice, Soldiers, Some Gave All, Thought For the Day, Worth
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Thought For the Day: Be Aware of Wonders While Living A Balanced Life
” Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” – Robert Fulghum, author (b. 4 Jun 1937)
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Tagged Aware, Balanced Life, Dance, Draw, Evvery Day, Learn, Live, Paint, Play, Robert Fulghum, Sing, Think, Thought For the Day, Wonder, Work
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Hope In Love Becomes A Battlefield
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 22 challenges us to write a poem engaging another art form. For me, it took but a moment to realize I would take on Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture. Many reasons behind this I suppose, but, the largest of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anonymity, Art, Aspiration, Attic, Battlefield, Category, Daddy, Danger, Design, Didone, Divorce, Dream, Dumpster Dive, Encourage, Family Man, Feeling, Happy, Hearts, Homeless, Hope, Little Girls, Live, Love, Memory, Na/GloPoWriMo, Paint by Number, Pattern, Photograph, Plead, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Princess, Reason, Robert Indiana, Scattegory, Sculpture, Season, Sing, Soul, Spring, Strong, Success
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Thought For the Day: Jesus Is the Resurrection and the Life
“Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?’” —John 11:25-26 … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Die, Happy Easter!, Her, Jesus, John 11:25-26, Life, Live, New Testatment, Resurrection, Risen, Salvation, Thought For the Day
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For the Love of Mom
The subject of Day 16 of Na/GloPoWriMo‘s challenge is to write a poem that uses the form of a list to defamiliarize the mundane. Far be it from me to ever really consider my mom or any mom that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchor, Center, Devotion, Family, Live, Love, Memory, Mom, Mundane, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Pillar, Poem, Poetry, Tenancity, Treasure
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Nostalgia For Guantanamo
Next on the series of challenges for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11 is to write a poem pertinent to places of origin. It seems to me that regardless of place of birth or my history of Hawai’i and California, the place that … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Beach, Best, Blue Beach, Bond, Brothers, Cable Beach, Cacti, Cactus Curtain, California, Children, Columbus, Company, Conserve, Courage, Cry, Cuba, Cuzco Beach, Deep, Desalination, Dust, Embrace, Endemic, Experience, Extended Family, Family, Family Beach, Fauna, Ferry Landing Beach, Fisherman's Point, Flavor, Flora, Fondness, Freedom, Friendship, Glass Beach, Grow Up, GTMO, Guantanamera, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Public Memory Project, Hawai'i, Heart, Hidden Beach, Horse, Island Hop, John Paul Jones Hill, Join, Landmine, Laugh, Leeward, Lesson, Lifetime, Live, Looking Back, Love, Memory, Na/GloPoWriMo, Natural History, Naval Base, Niknik Beach, No Man's Land, Nostaglia, Opuntia, Party, Photograph, Pirate, Place, Play, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Rain, Rainforest, Revolution, River, Rules, School, Semi Arid, Shape, Sisters, Small Town Living, Splash, Tales, Trails, Truest, Truth, Unique, Upper Hand, Water, William T. Sampson, Windmill Beach, Windward, Youth
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Finding Heart’s True Home
Based in part on Acts 13:22: Finding Heart’s True Home by Michael Romani Living life hoping for a little dignity Depending on His not my priority Putting that which matters to him Above my desires and my whims All of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abilities, Attend, Be, Becoming, Best, Betterment, Brother, Christian, Commitment, Connection, Contend, Desires, Destination, Dignity, Direction, Do, Fate, Find, Foundation, Full Heart, God, God's Love, God's Will, Great, Greet, Heart, His, His Will, Home, Humble, Least, Live, Love, Matters, Neighbor, Obstacles, Ordeal, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Priority, Recal, Self, Servant, Serve, Sheep, Shepherd, Sister, Still, Street, Study, Talents, Tansform, Whims, Word
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