Day: May 12, 2010
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Changing the Negative to Positive with Visual Aids
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. I’m a visual kind of girl. Always have been. I need to be able to see what things look like, to take what’s in my mind’s eye and see it in front of me. It’s part of moving my desire from mental to…
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Why All the Drama?
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. “Why does this keep happening to you?” a friend asks. “I’m glad to live a boring life!” Shannon gets the same question. Why all the drama in our lives? I can look back to a long series of drama going back over several…
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Unconditional Love and Sneaking through the Woods with a Toilet Lid
Featured Book: How to Attract Someone Back into Your Life Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. Everyone talks about unconditional love. Practicing it is something that comes naturally to certain types of people, and those types get really tired of lectures from people who don’t seem to believe that…
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Protecting the Young: Exercise in Futility
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. My daughter and her friends just keep getting pummeled. Shannon and I have a joke. When we go for walks, I walk on the side closer to the traffic. We joke about respecting her elder versus protecting my young. From the Bookshelf Rite…
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Just Something I Picked Up in the Grocery Store
Aislinn was unexpectedly with me this afternoon and tonight while her dad went to an out-of-town party and Shannon went to prom, so we ended up gardening together, having dinner, and then a little grocery shopping for fresh fruit and organic milk. The nearly deserted grocery store had one of those annoying motion-detecting-sing-a-long-thingies near the…
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Kilter, Back On
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. I’m back on kilter. All it took was a conversation with my daughters over lunch and suddenly I understood. We compared dreams from last night and while they weren’t the same dreams exactly, the off-kilter feeling behind them was exact and there was…
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Kilter, Off and On
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. Something is off kilter and I can’t quite place it. It’s a gorgeous spring weekend and I have tons of stuff to accomplish, with every intention of planting a few flowers and cutting back some old bushes, too, both in the literal and…
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Fully Engaged
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. I love it when things start to fall into place, especially when it had once seemed impossible. There’s something to be said for keeping your eye on the agenda, though the people who originally scolded me with those words did so for their…
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Growth of the Intuitive …and Difficult Lessons
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. When you’re intuitive and you work with other people who are intuitive, sometimes one senses things in the other person as if they’ve already happened. They haven’t. Yet. At least not on a level they recognize at that time. But those things are…
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Birthday Wishes from Daddy, and Lack Thereof
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. It’s weird. Sometimes I forget that Daddy’s dead. I woke up yesterday from a half-dream and was mad and disappointed because he hadn’t acknowledged my birthday. Not that it was something he ever really did when he was alive. He left that to…
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Breakthrough Moments: Loving Without Attachment
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. This has been the week for interesting lunches. I’d said, after all, that I wanted to get out of the office for lunch more often and spend it in more interesting ways and with good conversation. Attracting it to me, yes. So once…
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Gratitude with Attitude
Figures. Mercury’s in retrograde, Mars is squaring pretty much everything in my chart, and the Sun is opposing my natal Pluto yesterday and today. And we all know what that means: I’m just looking for someone to skewer. That doesn’t mean the results will be bad and if I know it’s coming, I might as…
