Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Our shotgun house on the Mississippi...when I was a 11 or so...
My pops was obsessed with the river, even building a boat that turned into a house...there was the smell of fish all around, I was always chilled to the bone. We had a big Saint Bernard dog as a watch dog, and he watched me all the time. Most of the time I was lonely, out of touch with others, I...
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Disciplining our kids...
When loved one's engage in self-destructive behavior, our loving temptation is to point out just where they are going astray. After all, isn't nudging/nagging/reminding/rebuking the best way to get someone to change? Obviously not or change would happen more readily because most of us have tried it...
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Letting things go...releasing negative thoughts...
I've read teeshirts that say, "Don't go there," "Duh", "Get Over It," and "Is it Friday yet?" I'm looking for one that says "Let It Go!" We sometimes hold onto negative thoughts like they were precious jewels. In Jon Kabatinn's "Whereever You Go, there You Are," he gave two excellent analogies that...
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Friday, May 9, 2008
The art of losing isn't hard to master...so many things
with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster" places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these...
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
Likes and dislikes - the ones that show up over and over...
I like to pictures of the mountain Peaks around Hot Springs, Arkansas. Many of us go around with blinders on not open to change or looking. around for the beauty that is all around us. Sometimes we have to change our focus to see the beauty. Sometimes we have to unclutter our lives to count our...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
How to torment yourself in 28 days...Ever thought of writing this book?
I figure if I pushed way back the pain of my past it would help me forget it. lol Doesn't work. I spent the majority of my teenage years thinking about writing the above titled book. Why teenagers reach out for darkness when they have their whole life ahead of them puzzles me now. Back then, I...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
The core of all healing is self-forgiveness...not blame and holding grudges
I'm always baffled by the long-standing grudges we hold against ourselves. I have spent years in the self-help movement trying to learn to let go of the grudges I carried over from my childhood. I have spent years reading self-help books trying to be a better me. I'm baffled at how grudges can turn...
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Monday, May 5, 2008
Women need to be desired above all by the men we are with...
We are so performance oriented even in bed. We are constantly armed and ready for battle to be the best and have the best. No wonder our men are taking Viagra. Unlike our mothers and grandmothers, who married with common sense, our daughters choose men who are not good "husband" material. They want...
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Postive Affirmations...also known as positive self-talk...
Today I will stop reacting to everything. Today I will claim some time for myself. today I will accept people for who they are and not who I want them to be. Today I will change what I can and accept what I can't change. Today when I'm overwhelmed by obligations, I'll think of one thing at a time...
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
Two...The weight of a man on a woman is like falling into the river...
This one of my abstract sculptures of man/woman together. without drowning. Above the world is burning and fighting. Lost worlds flow through others. But down here beneath water's skin, river floor, sand, everything is floating, rocking, Water falls through our hands as we fall through it. And when...
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