Category: Generosity
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Top Ten Reasons to Switch to my ConfessionsOfACreative Substack Site…
10. I’ll be phasing out this WordPress site. 9. You will continue to receive my essays about Writing, Wandering and Wondering. It’s easy, click here. 8. Subscribers will have free access to THE ART COLONY, my first novel, about a young artist who is struggling to make her way in 1970s Galveston where it is not…
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Quote of the Week…
“While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.” James Branch Cabell, 1879 – 1958
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Quote of the Week…
“Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.” Zig Ziglar, 1926- 2012
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The Everlasting Mani-Pedi…
A funny thing happened on the way to the salon. While on a recent trip, I had set aside some money to treat myself to a much-needed mani-pedi. I never made it that far. A member of our travel group shared her experience of visiting the biggest slum in Kenya called Kibera. She stepped beyond…
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Beyond My Reach…
Fun fact: the span of your outstretched arms is approximately equal to your height. It’s a beautiful fact of Devine design, as illustrated by DaVinci in his Vitruvian Man. Your reach far exceeds your span. “We think in secret and it comes to pass – Our world is but our looking glass.” James Allen, 1864 –…
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Quote of the Week…
“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” Napoleon Hill, 1883 – 1970
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Quote of the Week…
“Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.” Arnold J. Toynbee, 1889-1975
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Welcome, Stranger…
It is easy to dismiss or avoid contact with strangers; those who express their culture, love, gender, nationality and religious beliefs differently. I believe all people are deserving of equal treatment and acceptance, but living that truth is a different matter. While I work to fill social gaps created by a recent move, I encounter…
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Quote of the Week…
“Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.” B.C. Forbes, 1880 – 1955
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Delight in the Light…
Yesterday was Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year, and yet, it falls during the season of light; candles in various faith traditions flicker amidst strings of bulbs adorning houses and trees. While my family celebrates the birth of the Christ Child (in faith-based as well as commercial traditions), I appreciate and respect other…
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