Get to Know Your Super-Power The Power of Creativity Did you know you have a super-power? We all do! Like eyes and ears that process your everyday experiences or lungs that facilitate your breath, your brain and soul merge within you giving birth to your creativity. Actually you use your creativity every day. When you […]
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Daily Reminder You are not alone though you sit in your chair filled with sorrow and despair, The trees sway with your body’s movement The birds sing harmoniously with your heart’s song The water trickles and flows like blood through your veins The breeze shares secrets only your ears can hear The sun greets you with
Veterans Heroesraised on rural, farmland fields orsweaty, city sidewalks orsuburban, single family homestogether danced the night awaywith pretty girlswhose pouty red lips grazed their cheekbones. They were so cool. Those glorious daysdid not,could not have foretold,how all things freeare cast like stonesinto a tireless ocean,how all things braveleave their markas footprints in the snow. They
Holidays Are Heartbeats Among the greatest challenges to resiliency are holidays. Like an uninvited visitor, holidays arrive at your doorstep, bang incessantly at your door to come in, and then expect you to entertain them with food and frivolity. If you’re like me, the perpetuality of holidays makes you feel like you’d rather stay in
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The Creative Art of Letter Writing When I was a child, letter writing was a primary way of communicating between people near and far. I remember in elementary school, probably Fourth Grade or so, my homeroom teacher, who was also my English teacher, assigned each of us a pen-pal. Our pen-pals were from a class that
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Happy People Helping People Strengthens Resiliency When you think of ways to strengthen your own resiliency, chances are your first instinct is to think about ways you can improve your own behavior and outlook. Although thinking about and implementing new approaches relating to yourself is a good idea, did you ever think to not focus
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The Winds of Change Sometimes as your life changes, you open up new spaces to let in new people, new experiences, new inner strength—all that may not have happened if everything stayed the same. Observing nature and the natural cycles of the seasons for instance, change is a constant. Flowers develop, bloom and die. Leaves
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Before Prayer Before last leaves fall from treesBefore frost rides on waves of seas Before sun offers only faded lightBefore cloud hides moon at night Before Christmas bells have rungBefore dreidel spinning song is sung Before Kinara candles blazeBefore clock consumes calendar’s days Before year ends, stand in thineBefore almighty Lord divine. Linda Joy Walder Ride the wave of creativity
Battle of the Sexes Leaf blower,badge of masculinitybreaches her tranquilityon the back porch. Venus and Mars once aligned,when new love was divined,then came the annoyance phase,torch of romance no longer ablaze. She now understood,what he knew as the greater good…is it worth a battle of the sexes,to turn into exes? Ladies,let it go,appreciate your Joe,let
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