As another year comes to a close and I find once again that instead of this time being one about celebrating some Christian festival or the fervour of basking in consumerism excess I reflect on the year. In past years some were terribly blue and although this year has not
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a significant event and a key sales period for retailers and businesses
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of
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Belief: 1. The mental act, condition, or habit of placing trust or confidence in a person or thing; faith. 2. Mental acceptance or conviction in the truth or actuality of something. 3. Something believed or accepted as true; especially, a particular te…
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Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like. ~Author Unknown By the Brother’s Grimm When God created the world and was about to fix the length of each creature’s life, the ass c…
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A healthy mind can work wonders on a sick body, and a healthy body can work wonders on a sick mind.J. J. GoldwagSo after being overwhelmed, laid low, sucked dry, feeling poor, cranky, lethargic and just darn well out of sorts…I gotta say I am feeling…
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Northern Reflections: A Just Society?and the biggest threat to all is that all this government tinkering has had society fall into line and believe the crap. so now we have not only governments who are at war with its people but the people themselves a…
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Because In much wisdom there is much indignation: and he that addeth knowledge, addeth also labour.Ecclesiastes 1:18Back in the day many years ago I thought it would be a good idea to get some higher learning…and the motivation was only so I could fi…
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In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert SchweitzerWell life has a way of p…
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Remember the two benfits of failure.First,if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work;and second, the failure give you the opportunity to try a new approach.Roger Von OechWell I have been failing miserably with the new Year’s goals…walking-3 times a…
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledgeKhalil GibranThere are things that seem to sneak up and make you say what the hell? How does that happen? Why? And these things are beyond sensical…like how does an almost 60 year old do the splits…and why do…
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“Sometimes I’m confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn’t obvious…”Michael StipeIt seems that the biggest troubles come about from what we believe to be true. Lately I have come to the realizati…
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And ye, who have met with Adversity’s blast, And been bow’d to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass’d Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury – Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance…
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I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. ~Liz ArmbrusterIt seems that with all the problems that happen as they do…mining disasters, economic mayhem, strange weather, getting older and achier so…
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Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.~Erich Heller I went to a workshop once and a great little nugget from it has managed to stay imbedded in my leetle grey cells…and I guess the underlining meaning the presenter was trying to get…
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“Beware of false knowledge;it is more dangerous than ignorance.”George Bernard ShawWe are in the information age. We are a knowledge based economy…or so we are supposed to be. Knowledge is power we are told.We have countless ways of receiving inf…
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Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because y…
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Life doesn’t give folks a break. Nor does it test you. Nor is there any such thing as good luck, fate, or destiny. On the other hand, Colette, your thoughts become things. Which pretty much means you get to rule your world. Better than winning the …
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The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said “This is mine,” and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might…
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the smoke has followed us to Ft. St. James…we are running out of places to run to.
“Hell is truth seen too late –
duty neglected in its season” Tryon Edwards
(American Theologian, 1809-1894)
I read a post on facebook that I thought …
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At some stages of your life you will deal with thingsand at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety. Nigella Lawson How long does it take for things to overtake ones ability to cope? It seems that the weeks of smoke has sapped us of all ene…
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