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Don't be afraid your life will end: be afraid that it will never begin.

- Grace Hansen

So often our focus upon death and the possibility of dying is an escape from our real fear....that of living our lives. We have become comfortable with a way of life that is actually a slow death. Our constant working, busyness, taking care of others, and rushing around
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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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