I didn’t put up Halloween decorations this year, contrary to what you might think. I mean, I’m the neighborhood witch so certainly you’d think I’d have all sorts of styrofoam displays, ghosts hanging in trees, plastic skulls cackling on the front porch. Nope, not this year. In fact, I’m not even putting out my usual [...]
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A great feast with friends! Photos by Lorna Tedder, copyrighted
If I can learn a lesson spiritually, why can’t I apply it to the mundane?
If there’s one thing that will upset me to no end–that I’m trying to end–it’s a no-show in my “mundane” life. If I have long-awaited plans with one of my daughters and [...]
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Every year around this time, I do a little life coaching exercise that’s featured in Give Your Life Direction. The idea is to make a list of things I wish I could say but, for whatever reason, can’t. Maybe because the other person is dead. Maybe because it would be too dangerous to confront them. [...]
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Continued from Losing 20 Pounds in 30 Days: Part 5 — Are Your Parents to Blame for Weight Gain?
So why did I fire my doctor? First, my apologies for taking so long to come back to this blog to continue this series, but between the new job, tons of overtime, and bestest friend, my time’s been very [...]
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This photo is a great example of #9 below. Copyright by Lorna Tedder.
1. The Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 Color Mobile Scanner: The smallest ScanSnap document scanner—multi-page, double-sided scanning, all sized of documents from receipts to legal paper, fast, up to 10 sheets at a time, up to 600 dpi. It’s a teensy tiny scanner that takes [...]
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Peacock feathers. One of my favorite things. Photo copyright by Lorna Tedder; all rights reserved.
Whether it’s a conversation or a confrontation, you can learn a lot about yourself through your interaction with others. This became very clear to me during a polite but futile conversation with a local grocery store manager.
I’ve bought almost all my [...]
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When Maggie Shayne asked in her weekly blog, “What will you be when you grow up?” I laughed at her answers, partly because we have a lot of similarities. Maybe that’s why we’ve always gotten along so well, though. Many people who know me only as a [...]
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I cannot stand gossip. No, wait. It’s more than that. It’s discussion of other people at a level that I never even considered gossip before but now, it irritates me to the point of wanting to throw people out restaurant windows.
I think this is what that Bible verse means about noticing the speck of dust [...]
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Left: Shannon in a joyous moment in Grandma’s pear tree; photo copyright by Aislinn Bailey; Below: Aislinn happily cutting a chocolate fudge birthday cake with Mom serenely arranging roses in the background; photo copyright by Shannon Bailey.
In Esther and Jerry Hicks’ The Teachings of Abraham DVD IX of the Law of Attraction in Action [...]
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This photo reminds me of the 5 of Wands Tarot card, the sense of desolation. Of course, 5’s in the Tarot are all about choices….. Photo copyright by Aislinn Bailey, all rights reserved.
When you’re in the midst of a heartbreak or trauma, it’s very easy feel stuck in the muck. I have come to see [...]
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For much of my life, I have felt guilty.
Whether I’d done anything or not.
Whether I’d done something–like stop harm to someone else–or not.
I carried the weight of my actions and everyone else’s. I would be responsible for other’s actions if they didn’t take responsibility. That was me–Miss [...]
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It’s my birthday and what am I thinking about? Bella. Bella from Stephenie Meyer’s vampire series that began with Twilight, a title which is still bizarre to me since Maggie Shayne wrote a few dozen vampire novels with twilight in the title and with a very strong following for her books well in advance of [...]
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As I write this, it is a Sunday afternoon and I have a few friends coming over for dinner and an in-depth spiritual discussion. Did I say a few? I meant fifteen. Or maybe ten because several just called and said they might not make it because of [...]
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Balancing work with play at Grayton Beach State Park. Photo credit: Aislinn Bailey
Have you ever discovered that your intentions came true, just not in the way you planned? Happens to me all the time.
A little over a year ago, I put the intention out there in a Law of Attraction exercise to take [...]
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Intuition is a funny thing. Most people never trust theirs. Sure, later–after they’ve been mugged–they talk about the icky feeling they ignored because they didn’t want anyone to think they were silly or illogical. I’ve heard the same sooooooo many times from women who were [...]
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Every year around this time, I do a little life coaching exercise that’s featured in Give Your Life Direction. The idea is to make a list of things I wish I could say but, for whatever reason, can’t. Maybe because the other person is dead. Maybe because it [...]
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Sitting in the cemetery at sunset, 8 months into a year with Solar Return Sun in the dreaded Eighth House; Photo copyright by Aislinn Bailey, AisPortraits, Niceville, Florida
My birthday’s coming up in just a few weeks, and you know what that means? I’m finishing up a year when my Solar Return Sun was in my [...]
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Healing old wounds of childhood trauma and self-esteem doesn’t come easily, but when it does come, it’s unexpected.
Thinking back on my childhood, I might just as easily have been a child suicide. I remember thinking about it when I was nine years old, right after being humiliated in front [...]
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Not caring can be a powerful thing. I don’t necessarily mean apathy—more of a conscious sense of not caring and simply allowing rather than stepping in to participate or force a change.
The first time I got a real sense of how empowering it could be to not care [...]
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Is the Element of Water a symbol of emotional problems or a lack of flow in your life?
What’s with all these water problems? I mean by that, problems I’m have with the water element.
For several months, I’ve had every imaginable water problem. That includes roof leaks, leaky toilets, ice dispensers overflowing out the door [...]
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Today is a milestone day for me. It’s a milestone because it was 5 years ago today that I sued my 20+year mate for divorce and started a new life. It’s a milestone because that was a time of great uncertainty and wondering where I’d be in 5 years and if I’d “make it.” I [...]
One of the basic tenets of the Law of Attraction is that we attract to us that which is similar in “vibration.” The problem is, how do you figure out what your vibration is so you can clean it up and attract something better.
Actually, this is one of the easier Law of Attraction questions [...]
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***Pic: My home office’s annex. That’s my desk.***
A day to remember. Not for what I accomplished but for what I didn’t. It was my day off, my day to catch up on things around the house, including laundry and dishes and correspondence. I had a billion things on my [...]
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