No One Ever Teaches You How to Drink

No one really taught me how to drink. No matter how exceptional, responsible, and cultured my family is and was growing up, it just doesn’t happen. It’s an experience…a life learning experience. And, I feel honored to have had that experience and for the role that it plays in my life. As I ponder these…

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What Would You Change About Your Body?

What would you change about your body? Have you been transformed by society? Yes? I think so… It’s inevitable in this day and age. This hits so very close to home for me. Saddeningly so… Why does it have to be this way? Does it have to be? How can we change this? How can…

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Fabulous Finishing Fridays

I’ve been reading and researching again. I came across this little gem of joy ~ I simply couldn’t resist! Let THIS be the start to your Fabulous Finishing Friday: 1. You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found…

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Christmas Gifts

This Christmas I am giving myself a gift. My focus over the past few months has been geared towards the spirit perfect imperfection, gray areas, and middle roads. So, after over a year – my one year blogging anniversary was December 3 – of perfect consistency, posting 5 days a week rain or shine, my…

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Surround Yourself – Again

With a series of technical difficulties, this message was not delivered to many, many faithful readers. Thus, I am creating a re-post of November 27, 2013. Read and be fulfilled. Surround Yourself – Again In an effort of complete and utter transparency, I will admit that the last year of my life has been more…

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Awesome Ending Fridays

The year is rapidly coming to an end. It’s amazing to me how as I grow older, time truly does fly – faster and faster every year, every month, every week, every day, and every moment.  Time passes in the blink of an eye. As a child, it seemed as though a season could last…

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Chew on This

I have been known to inhale my food.  Seriously – I skip all the steps involved in going from the fork to the belly.  I don’t know what happens.  It certainly is not as if I grew up in a situation where food was scarce and I would lose the opportunity to eat without a…

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Why, What, and How?

On the extremely rare occasion that I meet an individual who exudes so much self-confidence so to appear completely unaware of the reality of their surroundings and of life in general, I find myself utterly amazed, if not flabbergasted.  How can someone feel that good about every aspect of themselves – to truly believe and…

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Symbolic Substitutes

“You can’t always get what you want…      No, you can’t always get what you wa-ant.           But if you try sometimes, well you just might find                you get what you need.” Sometimes what we think we want, is not necessarily what we need….

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Self Love

Can you imagine what life would be like if we loved ourselves as much as we love food? If we looked forward to the pleasure of our own company as much as we look forward to dinner or treats? Loving oneself is asnatural as feeding oneself. In fact, if we truly loved food, on a…

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