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Things I Miss
Originally posted on Aunt Beulah: The fifties may have been a simpler time, but they weren’t all birthday cake and ice cream. I remember crouching under my desk, hearing my heart thump and my teacher’s hose rub as she patrolled the classroom during an atomic bomb drill. Then, the next day, she distributed iodine tablets…
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SPRING; A SPIRITUAL REBIRTH
“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.” . . . “Something up above was calling him imperiously, . . . “Up we go!’ till at last his snout came out into the sunlight, and found himself rolling in the warm…
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“IF YOU EVER GO TO IRELAND”
Originally posted on IRELAND – MALTA – TRAVEL : If you ever go across the sea to Ireland, Then maybe at the closing of your day, You will sit and watch the moon rise over Claddagh And see the sun go down on Galway Bay. Just to hear again the ripples of the trout stream,…
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How Far Should Parents Push Their Child To Succeed?
Parents want their child to succeed in life. They want them to have what they didn’t have and are willing to sacrifice, scrimp and save for their child’s education. But what do you do if your child doesn’t want to finish their education? What happens if their ambition for success isn’t as great as yours?…
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Winters Remembered
The temperature this morning is a chilly minus thirty-five degrees and our windows are all framed with a thick border of frosty ice. I remember when I was a child and frost covered the windows, you couldn’t see through the etched patterns on the glass. I’d place my finger on the ice and watched with…
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If You Could Change the World
That old cliche “If I knew then what I know now” is the defining solution to what ails the world today. If I could change the world I would go back to basics, borrow a little from the past add them to the knowledge of today and find a solution that would sustain the world…
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Compassion Starts at Home
Violence, terroism, and war seem to dominate the headlines everyday. How is it possible that in this day and age we are still killing each other over what…power, land, racism, and yes, religion. What went wrong? I thought we all learned our lesson from past wars. Will there ever be world peace where everyone lives…
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