We each have something that we channel our creativity and energy in to. The Holocaust Museum of Houston has been collecting handmade butterflies for The Butterfly Project. They are hoping to collect 1.5 Million butterflies, to represent the 1.5 million children who were exterminated during the Holocaust. Right now they have about 900,000. The ( Read more... )

Found this on a friends journal and it made me laugh ( Read more... )

G-d never gives you more than you can handle was wrong.  We just learned that our little girl dog Scarlett’s liver is covered with tumors.  She has weeks, at the most, to live.  Zorro, our older boy dog, is fighting cancer and will not win.  Lastly Arabella, our 19 year old cat will most likely slip away in her sleep sometime soon.  All of this ( Read more... )

Why do I insist on causing myself emotional pain?   Heal, inflict, heal, inflict.   One of these days I'm not going to heal.   As those who read my ramblings know my daughter has been a source of joy, a source of pride but mainly a source of pain.   I think I have it together and then I read something that leads me down a dark path of pain and ( Read more... )

In between Zorro's surgery, recovery & chemo treatments and then dealing with the death of Mark's grandfather I managed to turn in my last paper and finished the "commitment" phase of my Master's program and passed with flying colours.
I am now green lighted to begin the program. Except, I know I will have to finished 2 years of Hebrew to graduate.

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This is the question poised by our Life coach this week.  The following are her words but I think they ring true for many of us.

Written by Robin Dance

I‘m embarrassed to admit it, and its truth pains me, but I’m almost certain the people to whom I’ve spoken most hatefully are my own children and husband. I’ve wondered if I’m the only one who does ( Read more... )

 The SCA Barony I play in is reaching a very important crossroad.  After a 5 year reign our current Baron & Baroness are stepping down.  They are ready for new adventures and hopefully less stress in their lives.  I am so very happy for them.  They have been good leaders, thinking of what would be best for the Barony before themselves.  Giving all ( Read more... )

 
One of my very favourite program on NPR is "This I believe". It is a public dialogue about belief, not religious belief so much, but what lives in your heart. The core values that guide your daily life. The essays are written by people from all walks of life. Famous people and the neighbor next door. The very young with fresh eyes to the world ( Read more... )

Three things that are worse than sorrow:
to want to die, and to die not;
to try to please, and to please not;
to wait for one who comes not.

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These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.

Romeo and Juliet, Act  ( Read more... )