Tag: spirituality
member name: Julie L.
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February 17, 2008 06:18 AM EST --
Six swans flew overhead as I stood basking in the uncharacteristically warm February morning sunshine just outside the side door to my island cottage. They flew so low over my head that it seemed . . .
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September 15, 2007 03:24 AM EDT --
Just at present my thoughts are focusing intensely on the subject of change. Whether it is change which we see or change that simply happens, the subject of how we deal with change is one of great . . .
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April 15, 2008 07:17 AM EDT --
The snow drops dangle their weary heads over the softening ground which is already giving way to crocus, daffodil and even tulip shoots. For those of you who aren't into bulbs, this means in translation . . .
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October 29, 2007 08:42 AM EDT --
I have just received an invitation to visit Europe's first expo. for divorced people. I am divorced and happily remarried. A question that the invitation raised for me was whether it is useful to . . .
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December 18, 2007 04:36 AM EST --
Whether you are religious are not, it is that time of year that feels sacred. What I mean by this is that the things around us and the events that take place seem to be loaded with greater meaning - a . . .
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October 12, 2007 11:34 AM EDT --
For many people today food is stress. Stress related to time, stress related to not knowing what to do in the kitchen, stress related to bad food habits and overweight, stress related . . .
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October 21, 2007 06:42 AM EDT --
Belonging to a family is something that most of us take for granted in our lives. That is, we are born into one and then, more often than not, expect to create one ourselves. Families can take so many . . .
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December 02, 2007 05:55 AM EST --
Hello everyone. I am back after some time of being away from Gather as my father just passed away. It has been a heart-wrenching and yet unifying time.
During my father's dying process I sent him . . .
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December 21, 2007 05:39 AM EST --
An Angel has Flown
An angel has flown,
the dust is settled,
the people are free.
A footprint at sunrise
is all that is left
in the . . .
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October 16, 2007 03:22 AM EDT --
I’ve been out picking mushrooms again; and, yes, once again with my mushroom-disinterested golden retriever, Lucy and without a hand-held GPS (satellite-based Global Positioning System for figuring . . .
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October 21, 2008 11:10 AM EDT --
The Canada geese on the horizon ruffle their wings in preparation for flight. Suddenly the leader of the flock lets out an unmistakable cry and in a miracle of natural engineering, unfolds his . . .
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July 26, 2008 03:49 AM EDT --
The waves lap gently up onto the shore and lightly kiss my wooden kayak which rests on the stony beach. A single hanging birch branch sways lightly in the wind like a dancer waking up to a new day. The . . .
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August 06, 2008 06:08 AM EDT --
It is still summer holiday time, but nature has already turned its sights toward the autumn. Yesterday as the wind spattered rain against the window panes, and we watched our warm summer lake water being . . .
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June 17, 2007 04:17 AM EDT --
Two weeks before I learned that my father, now 75, was unwell I had many dreams, snapshots of different times in life together. We hadn't spoken for some time. Disagreements about life choices created . . .
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July 17, 2008 06:12 AM EDT --
The forested small islands of Lake Mälaren, my home in Sweden, have turned a deep, dark green as though to call my attention to them. "Your frivolity on the water will end and . . .
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September 16, 2008 03:39 AM EDT --
It was barely seven in the evening and night was already falling. A chill wind blew over the surface of the water and made it shiver in small ripples. I sat at the window of my island cottage . . .
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