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o Alice Bailey and Lessons on Friendship Mom and dad were social people and our home was a focal point of all sorts of gatherings and get-togethers. These were the days of no locked doors, where everyone shared one long back yard. Every neighbor was a teacher and parenting was a pooled activity. It was a world where children were NOT the center of attention and very often NOT … Continue reading A Thought on Friendship
Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” Melody Beattie Every now and again I like to return to a early post and I remind myself of the the power of gratitude where I answer the question, once … Continue reading The Power of Gratitude
How many of us were OUTSIDERS growing up? Just a little different Not an in-crowder Nobody’s BFF The price for admission into an “in crowd” is often tragically steep. I remember in my own neighborhood how the initiation rites to the “Lorentz Place Lynx” required a climbing feat that was positively terrifying. There were two bridges that bordered our dead end street, the bridges spanning deep … Continue reading The Broken Souls Club
Friends, I would like to introduce you to Just a Thought. The really big life-changing breakthroughs we experience in our lives sometimes begin as tiny thoughts planted in our brains by someone else who has had a breakthrough, kinda like finding an oasis in a desert. It is when we pass on these tiny thoughts that are crystallizations of real experiences that we save one another. … Continue reading Just a Thought: An Introduction