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Crisis Orientation

The physician says I have a "Nervous Prostration"

Possibly I have - I do not know the names of sickness. The crisis

of the sorrow of so many years is all that tires me.

-Emily Dickinson

Physicians have invented many erudite and confounding names for women who work themselves into a complete frazzle. We spend our lives moving from one crisis to another....
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theyerg:
if there was a problem, yo, you'll solve it...
fietsbel:
There is no problem, just the solution to one. The problem always already exists you can't influence that. No is also an answer, but sometimes hard to say.
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Fixers and Fixees

Once again I was brought to my knees as I learned that each of us must access inner wisdome for herself. I can point out the road map, perhaps, but I must completely let go of the outcome.

-Christine Northrup

We live in a society of 'experts' and people looking for experts. Unfortunately, the two groups fit together quite nicely. Also, unfortunately,...
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fietsbel:
Life is all about learning, nobody knows where and when that ends. I'm glad I don't have all the answers because I love to learn ( that also means reading your blogs).
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Guilt

Who I am is what I have to give. Quite simply, I must remember that's enough.

-Anne Wilson Schaef

Often, when we look in our inner recesses, we feel that we are lacking. We have been a disappointment to others. We couldn't "be there"when we should have been, and we didn't have all the information we should have had. Somehow, though it may be...
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fietsbel:
@oliviablack I might be wrong, but isn't it just human. Thinking that one could have done more or better!
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

-Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Ideas can be so seductive, and we are so easily seduced. We forget that ideas are just that, abstractions that have been thought up.

We often lose ourselves in ideas and become so caught up in them we cannot distinguish between ourselves and the idea. When we reach this level of enmeshment...
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fietsbel:
Beautifully said. Not always easy to do, but very true!
oliviablack:
@sweetie it was so nice meeting you love!!!
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I have spent the last few years of my life rebuilding. I have rebuilt due to many a situation, and it seems I am still rebuilding.

I am quite the candid person about my past...even the idea of my future; but, if you need me to be open about my present...we are both going to be in pain.

I have made many a goal to...
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cyclmn:
Wow... Almost sounds like what I do.. I think I need to do some research.. Thanks for the share...
soopknertzi:
A very close friend of mine phrased it thus when I ran down my to-do list. "What are you running from?" 
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I am behind on my homework!!

I need to get to that!

moregraffiti:
Detention! Haha
fietsbel:
Having to write a lot of lines. I see Bart Simpson in front of me ;)
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phoenix383:
Hi ya
kkramone:
do you wanna married me?
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fietsbel:
@oliviablack How is Minnie doing?
oliviablack:
@fietsbel she is perfect!!! and it's almost her 10th birthday!!
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I am so super excited to announce we are just a few hours away from my newest set shot by the ever wonderful and lovely @waikiki!

It will be in member review in 2 hours!!!

Are you as excited as i????

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marinna:
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hor:
Yes.