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Memorial Day Weekend
Today is the beginning of the holiday weekend–that official weekend of the BBQ season, that weekend in which the Indy 500 is run and people from all over cheer for their favorite driver/team, that...
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Where Did Our Heritage Go?
We’ve come into the season of holidays; Thanksgiving gives way to Christmas and moves inexorably to New Years. For centuries this season has stood for blessings, fellowship, and unity; if not in...
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Can You Wassail?
There are times when subjects for an article, essay, or blog post collide with one’s mind and derail it from whatever intended destination anticipated. This morning is the perfect example. I’d intended...
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Holiday Enjoyment
Happiness mind-map (Photo credit: EEPaul) This will be a short posting today. It is, after all the day before a large holiday weekend. To that end, I’m going to take most of today off to enjoy nature...
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Poetic Bloomings: Food for Thought
Interior of a modern oven (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As Meena told you yesterday, the Poetic Bloomings Memoir prompt for the week was Food for Thought. For me, the final suggestion of “Last thing Mom...
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Blossoms of Memoir Turn on Events
Today’s Poetic Bloomings Memoir Project Prompt #80: What one event in your lifetime had a profound effect on your life? Rather than a huge public event, a small private one can have such a profound...
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Do You Know What’s Just Beneath?
Holiday HDR (Photo credit: Christopher S. Penn) As Meena Rose informed everyone, today’s PAD prompt has us looking “Just Beneath.” I’ve been in a serious frame of mind today, which always brings out...
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December Is Here!
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. ~ Giotto di Bondone Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. ~ Omar N. Bradley A Little...
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Easter: A Time for Rejoicing
Our friends at Poetic Bloomings assigned us an Easter poem today. It could be Christian or secular, about rebirth, renewal, returning from a set back, or any interpretation of the theme. Resurrection...
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Beads of Gratitude and a Chain of Thanks
Over at Poetic Bloomings, it is all about the Thanksgiving Holiday. When I first arrived to the US, I had little appreciation for the holiday. This was not because I lack some fundamental empathy...
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