7 Ways to Protect and Cultivate Your Feelings of Gratitude

Don’t get pulled in to negative talk. When a conversation you’re in starts to go negative, don’t be afraid to be the one who changes the subject. If that doesn’t work be willing to excuse yourself.

MOVING AHEAD — a Thematic Attic piece

MOVING AHEAD It’s been a fairly good year (so far) and I really can’t complain, but isn’t that always the way life is with all its ups and downs? The good and the bad, the ups and the downs, a roller-coaster ride, a merry-go-round, hanging on tight and taking each day one at a time, […]

A Nature Lover Poet

A Nature Lover Poet ~~ As a poet I like to soar Over mountains and the seashore Where I can express thoughts I love That God has given from above ~~ Nature’s beauty is everywhere Taking me places far and near Songbirds singing outside my door A beautiful sound I so adore ~~ Expressing tranquil […]

JUST SOMETIMES — from the heart . . . .

JUST SOMETIMES Sometimes, just sometimes, I am able to find the words to express what happens to be within my heart at the moment. I find myself arriving to each new day at dawn with a sense of anticipation of what I might find just around the corner of my mind and my heart, fully […]

Republicans Call Senior Citizens “Inhuman”

The headline is sarcasm… sort of. Obama got in “trouble” today for making an off-handed joking reference to Mitt Romney putting Seamus the Dog on the roof of his car in a kennel some 29 years ago. Here’s Obama’s exact words: “(Romney) said that new sources of energy, like wind, are ‘imaginary’. Governor Romney then […]

“MY CANCER”

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ME AND MY RADIO — a “Magic Monday” Piece

ME AND MY RADIO My love affair with the radio began such a long time ago, before the days of NPR and classical music on FM. It began rather innocently, as I recall, with a kit that came in a box, trying so very hard to get all the pieces to fit, an early electronic […]

Back to OZ

I’ve planned for months to get back to Odsherred Zoo, and this weekend it happened at last. Getting off the the bus near Esterhill The views My first picture of a leopard-patterned butterfly 🙂 The road to the zoo Rare birds, monkeys, reptiles, ringtail impostors and other animals. And finally the one I came for […]

AYN RYAN

Not to worry republican Romney supporters because Paul Ryan has already denied ever supporting Ayn Rands philosophies. Yup as soon as a national Catholic organization questioned Ryan on supporting Ayn Rand who incidentally was an avowed atheist well… wouldn’t ya know it Paul Ryan started to vehemently deny it. Does the Conservative Republican pro Catholicism  […]

Dream 8-13-2012: Be nice to the ghost!

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