oliviablack

April comes like an idiot, babbling, and stewing flowers.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

One of the gifts of life is the changing of the weather and the seasons. As we relinquish some of our illusions of control, we realize that each change of the weather and each season of the year have many gifts in store for us, if we participate in them and...
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I was going through @missy, @charmaine, @rambo, @lyxzen's homework....and I came across one for "Write about a disastrous trip or vacation."

That....I do have a story for....and boy is it silly.

I had a very dear friend that I met in Vegas, but actually grew up not too far from where I did in Maryland. We didn't meet until she moved to Vegas, but she
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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

- Madeline L'Engle

Life is a process. We are a process. Everthing that has happened in our lives has happened for a reason and is an integral part of our becoming.

One of the challenges of our lives is to imtegrate the pieces of our lives as we...
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I have been told that crying makes me soft and therefore of little consequence. As if softness has to be the price you pay to out power, rather than simply the one that's paid most easily and most often.

- Audre Lorde

Our tears and our softness are not valued much in this society. especially in the workplace. In the past, Women have been led...
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Today's entry could not be anymore perfect. This is exactly how I intend to spend my day. Getting things done, spending time with my beloved fur children.....and just getting to think with out distraction.

When we, as individuals, first rediscover our spirit, we are usually drawnto nature and cultivate this awareness.

- Shakti Gawain

Alone time is absolutely essential to the human organism. Many of
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I am suddenly filled with that sense of peace and meaning which is, I suppose, what the pious have in mind when they talk about the practice of the presence of God.

-Valarie Taylor

The word serenity is something that we understand in abstract and often not in practice. As we begin to take care of ourselves aand recover from our compulsive doing, we begin...
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XOXO

Miss Olivia Black Suicide

I found God in myself

& I love her/I fiercely

-Ntozake Shange

What better place to find God than within ourselves! It is only when we really know ourselves and affirm ourselves for who we are that we become aware of the devinity that we share with all things. We are part of the hologram....we ARE the hologram. When we estrange ourselves from ourselves, we...
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Harness and use negative emotions instead of them controlling you.

Thank you @joey for coming to Vinyl in the Hard Rock Las Vegas and volunteering for the St. Baldrick's foundation! We helped to raise money to fight against children's cancer!! This is the 4th year I have been able to be a part of this, and I am so thankful to have more people reach
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If, as someone has said, "...to be truly civilized, it is to embrace disease..."

-Robyn Davidson

One of the by-products of living and working in crazy situations is that our tolerance for insanity increase exponentially. Our ability to discern what makes sense and what doesn't becomes impaired. When those around us continuously exhibit bizarre behavior, we begin to question our sanity. Often we are not
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