Copyright by Lorna Tedder on February 8th, 2010

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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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Copyright by Lorna Tedder on November 25th, 2008

 
 
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When I was a little girl in a Southern Baptist church, the preachers often talked about how we’d all recognize each other when we got to heaven.  Even as a child, I had a few problems with the way this scenario was presented to me.  Sometimes we were told that [...]

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Copyright by Lorna Tedder on July 7th, 2008

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A spontaneous moment of genuine happiness.

I am suddenly living my life “in the open.” But that’s not quite the right analogy.
Queen of Metaphors that I am,  I am still searching for the best way to describe this new shift in my life toward even more brutal authenticity of emotion.  For [...]

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Copyright by Lorna Tedder on June 22nd, 2008

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With rain on the horizon, a lot of local Solstice rituals were cancelled because they were weather dependent. Or because it was just way too hot outside.  Neither was a problem for us.  The weather cooled down the moment the circle was cast, the mosquitoes we’d been slapping [...]

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Copyright by Lorna Tedder on May 24th, 2008

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The first thing people notice about me–the people who read just about everything I write–is that, in person, I’m actually not very talkative and when I do speak, I have a soft voice and a quiet manner.  Most people are surprised because they know I have a lot going on in my [...]

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Copyright by Lorna Tedder on May 22nd, 2008

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I am still working through the revelations of this Scorpio Moon, especially in regard to Trust and Truth. I am trying to figure out for myself why I have had such difficulty in trusting connections when communications fail (see previous post), trying to take it back to its earliest form to understand how [...]

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