Grieving is like the receding tide
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I don't know if you've ever spent much time at the beach - a real beach, not the side of a pond or swamp. The "work" of grieving is like the receding tide. At first you don't see any progress, and your "shore" is just buffetted by endless large waves of grief. They toss rocks at you, and slither the sand out from ( Read more... )

I came up with a new philosophy of life - my life anyway.  
I'm trying out this new life philosophy on myself lately (when I remember).

"Try again.  Sooner."

It's not always (or with me, it's usually never) about steady progress, discipline, etc.  Sometimes it's about failure.  And restarting.  But my new philosophy is, rather than beating myself up ( Read more... )

What DO you call a club full of Glynises anyway?  Whodathunk there'd be enough to need a group name in the first place?    I never thought there'd be more than a couple of dozen !

Well, right now on Facebook, there are over TWO HUNDRED Glynises !  (245 as of today !)  So we need a "grouping" name.

School of fish, herd of goats, that sort of thing.

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My Life's Verse

Some people have a favorite Bible verse that touches their heart, or is very dear to them.  Others have what is sometimes called a Life Verse.  This is the one verse they are claiming as their modus operandi, or sums up their goal in life, or whatnot.

Today I have just found my Life's Verse.   It's not a Bible verse per se, but I'm ( Read more... )

 Invention Idea - for car

I was driving home, the gas tank on fumes only, in a lake area where there are few shopping centers around, and I passed a gas station.   But it was on the wrong side of the road, at a busy intersection, but the kind of intersection that they don't think has enough traffic to warrant traffic lights to help you.   So if I ( Read more... )