It’s only been this last fall and winter that I have posted so much so regularly and for so many months. I am going to take a much needed vacation from my blog. I plan it to be a month long vacation. So there will be no new posts till March 6. There is plenty…
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Common sense guidelines for being estranged
I have a health condition for which I received treatment in November 2005. Recently I met with my doctor and asked him when the treatment would have full effect. He told me that no one knows because each person’s body reacts in their own individual way. The condition of estrangement is like that.
Grief
Note: This post was written on December 1, 2005. Just two days ago someone, a stranger, emailed me to thank me for leaving a compliment on a post on his blog. I had never met him, just admired his writing. I suspect he is young enough to be my son. I had checked out his…
The Ontario Blogger “M”, the writer, editor, artist, and mother
This is a longshot. I am writing this post in the hope that some stranger on the internet will find it and know who this woman is who wrote a blogspot blog called The End of Strife. She wrote the blog for nine days in October 2005 and then stopped. She has written nothing since…
People who impress the heck out of me …
Yesterday I attended the opening reception of an exhibit of the art of nine artists. What the nine have in common is that they all have a physical and/or mental disability that makes it very hard to do things that the rest of us take for granted. The youngest artist is in his early twenties….
The question of the day: What is love?
Love is an emotion that I feel for another person. Love is not entirely logical. A very strong feeling of affection and a concern for that person’s wellbeing and safety. A willingness on my part to do things for that person that I would not do for others. A desire to see that person be…
Forgiving her and him and them and me ….
I hope that visitors here have looked at the articles on forgiveness at the links in the previous posts. Even if you don’t think of youself as the one who feels a need to understand forgiveness, these articles have something to offer. I got a lot out of reading them. My daughter has gone to…
An Online Self-Test on Forgiveness
Self Tests: Forgiveness. Where are you on the path toward peace and healing?
On Forgiveness …
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. – Nelson Mandela Beginning Again in Love, A Sermon by Kathy Lehman Forgive for Good, An Interview with author Fred Luskin Learning to forgive for good. Website of Fred Luskin The Power of Forgiveness by Naomi Drew M.A. FORGIVENESS: THE MANDELA PRINCIPLE…
What we remember ….
My husband had a story that he would tell me in the first years of our relationship. The story was about this incredible house with elaborate painted turned posts on the porch. A previous owner was alleged to have been buried in the front yard in a sitting up position. He remembered this story from…