Tag: life
member name: Judy G.
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December 28, 2007 12:47 AM EST --
Mom died this past January. The grieving was back with a vengeance for me as Christmas drew closer. The sadness was a huge weight and there was a darkness shrouding my days. Occasional . . .
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March 16, 2007 02:03 AM EDT --
Fill in the blank:
Life is more FUN with _________ !
Have some fun, keep it CLEAN, and share with Gather what brings a smile to your life!
Post some photos, too.
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May 11, 2007 02:43 PM EDT --
I was tagged by Kyra D.
A Positive Tag Game
RULES:
Very simple
List 5 Positive things about you then "tag" 5 other people to do the same then pass it on. Email your tags to let them . . .
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December 08, 2006 03:04 AM EST --
Some years back I travelled to Tiffin, Ohio, to visit my sister. Her home was a very old, modest two-story place in an attractive neighborhood. High ceilings, plank floors, and back stairs . . .
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December 31, 2006 11:53 PM EST --
For two long years now, my aging parents have lived in an assisted living facility, requiring more and more care with each passing month. Quality of life has not improved since they moved from their . . .
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December 15, 2006 04:47 PM EST --
Cooler temperatures welcomed us as we stopped for gasoline one last time before arriving at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. It's a wonderfully remote part of the Canyon, and very scenic and . . .
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December 15, 2006 01:56 AM EST --
The year before my 30th birthday, in between marriages, and feeling quite the "liberated woman" in the early 1980's, I set off on a three-week rail journey across the country. All . . .
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December 15, 2006 04:12 PM EST --
With the Pine Motor Lodge in our rearview mirror, we headed up the road to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Now it's getting romantic, I thought - with visions of standing at the edge of nature's . . .
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July 02, 2007 12:13 AM EDT --
I was tagged by ♥Krazy Kyra ....something about "5 things about me" - and you fine folks get to figure out the one that is a bunch of hooey! Okay....here goes:
1. For two . . .
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May 07, 2007 12:52 AM EDT --
I learned a new word today
It answered an old question
This short collection of letters
Brought the ‘aha!' sigh from my lips
My nodding head confirmed it
Rolling around in my mouth . . .
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July 07, 2007 11:48 PM EDT --
As a lonesome little girl, living way out in the woods, I found even deeper solitude under the umbrella trees and thick oaks that filled the forests behind our house. My excursions would take me farther . . .
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May 27, 2007 01:34 AM EDT --
Holy act of sacred conspiracy
Of one breath with God
Drawn in one with another
One within another
One of the other, one and the same
Creation moment
Creating and moving and living . . .
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August 20, 2007 12:17 AM EDT --
Maybe it was a perfect storm about to fall all around me. Maybe it was just a bunch of life transitions happening all at once. There were a few moments that hurt like hell, but those moments . . .
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December 15, 2006 03:48 PM EST --
Weddings are supposed to be picture-perfect events with everyone in their finest clothes, surrounded by flowers and music and closest friends and family. Right...?
Honeymoons are supposed . . .
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December 13, 2006 09:35 AM EST --
barricades of barbed wire
my fingers bleed
from carefully constructing
this damned fence
sitting back in wonder
at the seeming lack of scars
yet nursing the wounds in anticipation
of their infliction . . .
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December 13, 2006 09:46 AM EST --
grace and gratitude
from heart to heart
the former without the latter
diminishes the gift
shuns the giver
ah, but the rightful response of the soul
to the soul's lover
causes both to sing
ah, . . .
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January 01, 2007 09:51 PM EST --
"greetings from home",
the letter began
the unfamiliar postmark
a town I've not heard of
a hand I've not read.
"we miss you, we love you...
please join us, come home." . . .
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July 15, 2007 10:11 PM EDT --
cranberries and orange with subtle notes of cardamon
scents meander down the hallway and call through my drowsing sleep
scones hot from the oven await me, coffee dark and oily rich
this early morning . . .
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December 22, 2006 11:17 PM EST --
Many endings are ahead as the year comes to a close. They are endings that just seem to hover out there - almost a threat, almost a promise - nothing final. Not just yet.
Ending the year with . . .
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February 16, 2007 11:09 PM EST --
conversation on monday
tumor on wednesday
last breath drawn six days later
literally here today - gone tomorrow
married 64 years. . .to her only love and best friend
my mom for 52 . . .
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