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Five Steps to Finding Your Passion

    Epiphanies; who knows how these things happen… I think that perhaps our brains are constantly looking for connections. So maybe it was just a synthesis of a recently overheard conversation, or some...

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Messages and Metaphors

  Maybe it started with Noah’s rainbow. The story was spelled out for us on the Sunday School felt board and told each of us little sinners that the rainbow was God speaking to us. Even as a kid, it...

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Keep Going – A Pandemic Post

  The thing is, if you saw me in person, I’d tell you I’m doing quite well…that I’ve found my groove in this whole new socially-distanced pandemic world.   Turns out, I’d say with a pleased chuckle,...

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Deadlines and a New Year

      Deadline:  the latest time or date by which something should be completed. (Historical) a line drawn around a prison beyond which prisoners were liable to be shot.     We are all running on a...

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What Lies Beneath

  “When I was young I painted the trees and the clouds just as I saw them. As I grew older and learned something about art, I realized that I couldn’t paint the trees and clouds as I saw them, and so I...

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Puzzling Out the Chaos

        Snapping the last few pieces of the puzzle into place felt like a triumph; a head-swirling trophy-holding accomplishment. I laughed at my reaction even though I still felt like someone should...

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Death & Birthdays

        Today is the three-year anniversary of the death of my sister Rhonda.  Today is also the 46th birthday of  her daughter Carma. This is something I wrote about that night when Rhonda’s death and...

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Blame It On the Dog

  I suppose I could blame the May arrival of Baxter the Wonder Dog.     Or it could be that I’m just more into doing art. And often that is very true.     Still, I wondered why I hadn’t written a blog...

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Surviving or Thriving?

    How’s everyone doing? Are you, like me, waiting for the credits to roll across the sky to inform us that this disaster movie has finally come to an end? One can only hope eh? Here in British...

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Watching the River Run

    Last night we had a mini-choir session by Zoom. As one does whilst firmly entrenched in an ongoing-perpetual-Groundhog-Day-global-pandemic. I wasn’t going to do it at all. I had many compelling...

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