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Feeding My Soul
We have many types of hunger. Only physical hunger needs to be fed food, but we tend to feed all our hungers that way, don't we? Emotional hunger? Food. Craving tastes hunger? Food. Soul hunger? FOOD!
Your soul or spirit or self or mind or whatever you want to call it is the 'you' that is not your body. It gets hungry, too. Food doesn't satisfy ( Read more... ) -
Debunking the White House Talking Points
1. "There was no quid pro quo." It doesn't appear from the memcon that T said, "Do this for me and I'll do that for you." He didn't have to. Before the call, he froze aid to Ukraine that Ukraine needed desperately. The Russians had annexed part of Ukraine (Crimea) and was fighting Ukraine in the eastern part of the country. Z said he'd like to ( Read more... ) -
A most excellent dream
Last night, I enjoyed my dream very much.
I received a call that I had been cast in the next action film based on a Dan Brown book and I would be the female lead. Overjoyed was not the half of it, and then, when I learned that the star would be Benedict Cumberbatch, I could hardly contain myself.
Some of my friends were also cast and suddenly we ( Read more... ) -
The Circle of Life
My daughter arrived in Amman, Jordan yesterday. She is spending the academic term abroad and will be improving her Arabic along with studying at the university. I am so proud of her I could plotz ( Read more... ) -
For the record
For the record: I will not vote for a woman to be President just so that we can have a woman as President. I voted against Sarah Palin as Vice President, for example, with no twinge of guilt. I voted against Hillary Clinton in primaries twice -- eight years ago and this year. Will I be glad that there is a woman in the White House? Yes, I will ( Read more... ) -
On Being Furniture
In spring of 2002, our family adopted two cats. My daughter chose Beck, a tuxedo cat, and my son chose Angel, a black cat. This is the story of Beck ( Read more... ) -
Reinventing Myself
Now that I no longer hold the fabulous, wonderful exciting career I had, what am I do do with myself ( Read more... ) -
This is how they don't see it.
I am going someplace with this. Bear with me a moment ( Read more... ) -
The Piano Guys!
I went to the Piano Guys concert in Santa Rosa tonight. What a treat ( Read more... ) -
"She has a Great Personality"
One of today's daily Spark videos is this:
www.sparkpeople.com/resource/dailyspark-videos-detail.asp?video=54(This is a gender normative post because I'm straight and these are my experiences. I understand that people in other situations have other or similar experiences, but I'm using 'men' and 'women' to reflect my own experiences only. ) I ( Read more... )