Day: May 11, 2010
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Powerful Intentions for a New Year
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast. It hit me on my way home from work. I already know what my intentions (not resolutions) will be for 2007, and I’m going to get a head start on them. As of tonight. Last year, the phrase I lived by was: risk everything!…
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Playing the Devil Card
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast. I remember the first time my Personal Obi-Wan used the term “Devil’s Play” in a conversation with me. She’s tried to tell me since then that it’s not always as with the motivations I’d thought, but I never understood that until the latest batch…
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The Middle Age, at Last, and How I Knew
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast. When I took a look at Aislinn’s 14th birthday pictures, taken at my mom’s kitchen table, I understood at last that I am now in the Middle Age. It’s not a year or span of years or any way society or a medical record…
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I’m a Casualty of the “War on Christmas”
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast. You know what? I don’t really care if you wish me a “Merry Christmas,” a “Blessed Solstice,” or “Happy Holidays.” I don’t. But just wish it for me and don’t demand it of me. Such a wish, in my opinion, should be meant as…
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Winter Solstice: Doing the Unstuck
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast. It’s the Winter Solstice, which literally translates “sun stoppage.” For most people, they think of this time in relation to birth—the birth of God, of the Year King, of a new year—but for me, it’s often been about the death of something, too. There…
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Treats from The Treat
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast. Ye Gods, but that man is hot! He just wanted to remind me of that amid a very difficult week when raw sexuality has been the last thing on my mind. I guess he knew it would make me smile. Last night, in a…
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Invitation: Where Delight Takes Flight
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast. In a deep meditation, I ask for a glimpse of the future and what it can be, should I choose to invite it in. What I see is a world where my delight takes flight, a sense of lifting up and loving deeply. I…
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Strippers: How Bizarre, How Bizarre!
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast. I heard a song today that made me realize I’ve known quite a few strippers over the past couple of years, and hey, ones I wasn’t even related to! No, not currently “working” strippers and “exotic dancers” but rather, both men and women who …
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Conversation Starter? Or Ender?
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast. In the What’s-with-People-these-Days department, I’ve noted a lot of my online friends enduring some rather invasive comments and actions from friends, coworkers, and rank strangers recently, leading many to wonder just how much of our current population was born in the proverbial…
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Wands and Pentacles, Business and Money
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast. My guides weren’t kidding about this month being all about business and money! In my monthly reading, I had wands and pentacles all over the place. I’m used to the past six months being about business and spirituality (a bazillion wands) but…