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Greatest Sales Pitch

10 Friday Feb 2012

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cheesy salesmanToday’s post is a bit different. It’s a collection of wisdom taken from a book that took me f.o.r.e.v.e.r. to read. It’s title: ”The Greatest Salesman in the World” by Og Mandino. (if you have time, listen to Og’s story here, you may relate)

The book came into my hands during some years when I didn’t follow Jesus too closely. In fact, I mostly treated Him like a mere acquaintance. I knew Him, we grew up together. But when I moved away to college, we became distant–and never talked. I was busy with all my other fun spiritual guru friends. Continue reading »

Shem your Shame

03 Friday Feb 2012

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Shem your shame sounds like some new slang. (wait that whole thing rhymes…I’m a poet and didn’t know it).

Actually Shem and Shame have a lot to do with each other. You’ll see why in a minute. One word is Hebrew, the other English. Bet you’re excited for a Hebrew lesson today, right? Okay, hold tight this will come together quickly—I promise.

SHEM  –>  שֵׁם
Shem is Hebrew. In its script form, it looks like a crown. It’s pronounced Continue reading »

Thumping Do It

27 Friday Jan 2012

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Sitting in a group with others, my mind is completely distracted with
“Eleven. Do it.”

Ugh, the voices are back. Now is NOT the time.

Actually, it’s not a voice but a thought out of nowhere. Completely left field. Like a spark of light. Like seeing a mouse run by, when there should be no mice. It causes a double-triple take as you think, ”what the?…is that what I thought it was?” And you know you will not see the mouse again… at least not during this moment. Continue reading »

Bits of Truth

23 Monday Jan 2012

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“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes.

In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain.

The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life.”
~ Mary Manin Morrissey (inspirational speaker)

What could you let go of, even if it’s just for today…
And then try it again tomorrow. Continue reading »

Finding Normalcy in an Abnormal Christmas

16 Friday Dec 2011

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The icebreaker topic “what are your traditions/what are you doing for Christmas Eve and Day?” felt like ice in my veins. I told myself to buck-up and get my happy face on so I’d be ready to breeze through my turn.

But the truth was: I did not want to talk about my Christmas, and how abnormal it would be.

Maybe I’ll lie…

As the women around the table spoke, I realized I wasn’t alone. Continue reading »

Time Out Chair

09 Friday Dec 2011

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You and me. We’re not so different.

I know you’re not always a brave or cheery as you claim to be.

I know you wonder what they really think.

I know you have been looking in the mirror too long. Noticing lines, bumps, gravity.

I know you eat cookies fast, because somehow that makes it not count. I know you throw away fast-food wrappers before you get home. I know you toss out receipts and remove retail tags before anyone can see you’ve been shopping. I know you cut the size-tag off clothes when the manufacturer erroneously adds four more sizes than you know yourself to be…or puts an X by your L.

I know you laugh, when nothing is funny at all. I know you Continue reading »

Tomatoes, Dogs, and Regret

02 Friday Dec 2011

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I don’t like dogs. Tomatoes are gross. And I refuse to have regret.

Yup I’ve said each of these things. To which they are true.

Mostly.

Although when others hear my generalizations of likes and dislikes, I become permanently labeled with my stated partialities.

Tomatoes for example: on their own—without food companions—are disgusting. But turn those killer tomatoes into a salsa or sauce and I’m head-over-heels in taste bud heaven.

And then there are dogs…

Now if I was being really clear, I’d tell you that I’ve been chased down and attacked by German Shepherds. Not once – but twice. I have a scar on Continue reading »

PreThanksigiving Grinch

25 Friday Nov 2011

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They already have their Christmas lights up. Wrong. It’s just wrong.

I’m sure they are perfectly nice and lovely people. But the issue is, at the time of this writing, it’s well before Thanksgiving and they’re pushing Christmas on the neighborhood before it’s time. Maybe they are “those neighbors” who flaunt and are in some competition to be the best-est and most-est, first-est.

Infact, they probably have a fully flocked Continue reading »

Whittled By the Wind: it’s supposed to be that way

04 Friday Nov 2011

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Right now, I’m breathing air at 7,000 feet. In Abiquiu, New Mexico.

Surrounded by deep canyons, hidden away in the landscapes of Georgia O’Keeffe a mile above sea-level, is the place I call home for the week.

It is the place I return for an annual writer’s conference. It’s a place to watch the sun rise over the canyon and set into the desert plains. It’s a place to walk the labyrinth and breathe the chilling wind. It’s become a place to release intentions.

The canyon-walls, mesas, and chimney-rocks have a story to tell of years of whittling by the wind. The wind/Wind creates the beauty of this place.  It’s a Wind Continue reading »

Eighteen Good, Bad, and Ugly

21 Friday Oct 2011

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“How many years have we been married?”

My husband flashes back a look that reads—you’re the wife, isn’t that your job to know these things?

But rather he replies, “Eighteen years.”

On the outside I exclaim, “Wow!” But inside my heart sighs. We’ve been through much.

We’ve known each other for over twenty years, together for nineteen, and vowed for eighteen. What amazes me, after so many years, is that I still don’t know everything there is to know about this man I buddied up with for life. And I think—know—on occasion I still shock him.

The comfortableness of our long marriage has only come because we stuck it out during the tension and struggles—when it Continue reading »

Feral Lessons

14 Friday Oct 2011

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Why did I ever start feeding it?

Dupee [dop-ee].

That’s what I call it (and “it” because I can’t tell if this cat is a girl or neutered boy).

I don’t know who Dupee belongs to. But whomever it is, they don’t take care of it.

This makes me angry.

I moved into a new house last fall—the property owner told me of Dupee. She pointed to a cat wandering the back yard and asked, “Will you feed it? I’ve been feeding it and want to know it’ll be taken care of.”

Because I love cats—because this woman was kind—I said yes.

No harm, no foul. Continue reading »

One Leg

07 Friday Oct 2011

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The bird feeder outside my office window is a great distraction.

Before the dawn was full, I watched a single finch hop from peg to peg nibbling seed.

Something was odd.

As I focused my eyes, I could see, it was missing a leg. And I began to feel sorry for such a small creature.  I wondered what terrible fate had happened to take away its leg. Was it born this way? Did it happen recently? Was it a terrible accident or had disease ravaged and taken this creature’s boney little appendage? Continue reading »

Cupcakes

30 Friday Sep 2011

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Just because it looks like a cupcake doesn’t mean it’s a cupcake.

(at least not to my standards)

I’ve become a cupcake connoisseur. Perhaps even a bit of a cupcake snob. I know a good cupcake when I see one… and I can spot an imposter in three seconds.

There are so many things to know about cupcake connoisseur-ism. I won’t go into much detail here – but it’s really about the frosting—the quality and texture and taste—and the interaction with the cake—and everything going on inside the paper-wrapper. It’s a fine balance my well-trained palette knows.

I’ve eaten a lot of cupcakes to get me to where I am. Sometimes in the trenches of my training Continue reading »

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