Month: November 2008
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How to Escape a Repeating Time Loop
Shannon and Lorna get silly at a mother-daughter reunion. c 2008 My younger daughter, Aislinn, asked me an interesting question that changed the course I took in a personal situation. “Mommy,” she said, “what if this thing that’s happening is really another chance to do it right? What if you’ve already done this once–or a…
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Why You Can’t Read your Future for Yourself (and Sometimes for Others)
When I first began meeting “intuitives,” I heard several of them say that they could not read their own futures. I thought it was odd at the time, given that some of them had told me amazing things about my own life–right down to names, ages, locations, specific projects I was working on that I’d…
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The Policy of Truth
Shannon and Lorna, Thanksgiving 2006 in Destin– where will we be this year for Thanksgiving?! “You had something to hide; Should have hidden it, shouldn’t you? Now you’re not satisfied With what you’re being put through.” — Depeche Mode’s “Policy of Truth” Many years ago, I had a friend who had based most of his…
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5 “Effing Brilliant” People Who Spout Gems
About a decade ago, my friend Vicki Hinze had a literary agent, Helen Breitweiser, who was a blast to be around. Helen was young, hip, intelligent–and had a mouth on her. That was part of her charm. (In my opinion, at least.) One of her favorite phrases was to refer to someone’s literary masterpiece as…
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You Really Can’t Trust Anyone, Can You?
For months, I’ve noticed how many people around me have trust issues, and I’ve also noticed that these trust issues didn’t just pop up overnight. They’ve been there for years, through series of relationships, maybe all the way back to childhood. They’re still there because they’ve never been healed–only torn open and deeper by subsequent…
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A Breakthrough: “For the Highest Good of All” and Other Caveats
What I learned from my conversation with Dorothy was that I’ve become too enmeshed with the philosophies of some of my spiritual friends. That’s not uncommon for me, being a Double Pisces, because I do tend to mesh with others, and while that’s a lovely thing to happen in a romance, it’s not always the…
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The Metaphysics of Cheating
(Yes, S.B., this is for you…because we’re tired of your cell phone going off 30 times every morning!) Oh, the subjects that come up over lunch with a friend! Her live-in boyfriend has accused her of cheating and, honestly, she’s fed up. This time, it’s all because she didn’t respond immediately to his fifth control-freaking…
