Category: Positive Thinking
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Why I Chose Not to Attend my High School Reunion (Hint: Blame Abraham-Hicks)
Lorna, in high school and out. For 9 years and 11 months, I looked forward to this high school reunion. On the last night to turn in my paperwork, I decided not to go. It was a surprise, mostly to me. There are lots of tales of people who go back to high school reunions…
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Mean People and Their Motives
Photo credit by Digital Explorer; creative commons license The quickest way to shut down or shut out trash talk is to know precisely who you are and have confidence in your own vision. If your confidence is the least bit shaky, someone else’s negativity or just plain mean behavior can send you scrambling for solid…
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Conspiracy Theory, Natural Disasters, and Fulfilling our own Prophecies
The crescent path into the “fairy garden”– my special place to hide from all the talk of oil spills, methane gas, and the apocalypse du jour. Photo copyright by Lorna Tedder; all rights reserved. Today, I read with confusion that the rain that fell here on the Gulf Coast yesterday was black with oil and…
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Remember to Milk
An ambitious little bluebird at the lake near my home. Photo copyright by Lorna Tedder; all rights reserved. One of the hardest things for me to do, up until recently, was to relax and enjoy the moment–something that greatly hindered my happiness quotient. Sure, I would see all the beauty around me, but instead of…
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All Alone with My Empty Nest (and Too Busy to Notice!)
I’m all alone for a few weeks. You’d think something terrible has happened. Honestly, the worst of it is trying to figure out how to make both a movie date and a yoga workout in the same evening.
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Can You Be Spiritual if You Have Material “Stuff”?
Hydrangeas, impatiens, and a water plant in my tiny fish pool on the back patio. Someone gave me the water plant, the pots are old terra cotta from a garage sale, and the stone walls were ones I laid myself with my own sweat. It’s my little piece of paradise. Photo copyright by Lorna Tedder;…
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And Not a Day Goes By….
Photo copyright by Antonio MartÃnez; creative commons license. One of my friends worries that her version of God isn’t taking care of me, but my version of God is. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t recognize that I am taken care of. Nowhere is that more obvious than after a near-miss…
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What Are You Working On?
A small, dense object only twelve miles in diameter is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years. At the center of this image made by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is a very young and powerful pulsar, known as PSR B1509-58, or B1509 for short….. Photo copyright and more info at http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/b1509/.…
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The iPod Mood-Lifter Experiment
What an inspired picture! Photo credit by Janesdead; creative commons license One of the quickest ways to lift a bad or negative mood is with music, but what happens if we expand on a mood-lifting song? What happens if your music is uplifting for, say, 2 weeks or a month? By uplifting, I don’t mean…