Category: Relationships
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Thoughts on The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife
In an effort to anticipate the next phase of my life and make the most of the current one, I have been listening to inspirational and spiritual audiobooks targeted at people–especially women–who are 10 to 15 years my senior. Many of them are writing now because they’ve come through a difficult period, gone deep within…
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Maybe this Opportunity Isn’t Meant for You
Photo by DeathWing I’m working on several projects and events that will offer some profound opportunities for others, yet it’s interesting to see how people turn down those opportunities at every chance. These are not people I’ve gone after with an offer of something grand, but rather, they’ve heard about my projects and have come…
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Here’s to Perfect Birthdays!
***Photo by Lorna Tedder — I am amazed that my camera phone came even this close to capturing the colors on the lake at Grayton Beach. There was more reddish-rust color in the middle than shows in the pic, but this picture was taken looking from the wet sand at our feet, into the lake,…
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Thematic (vs Traumatic) Years
Are you on the right track? Photo by amanky Have you ever noticed that certain themes emerge in your life each year? For me personally, these themes work themselves out in a 2-year cycle with a new primary year starting around my birthday every year. The first year is usually a reordering of a…
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A Meditation First for Me
Photo by Deeble For quite some time now, I’ve started my meditations in my Enchanted Forest. I’ve met lovers there and friends, had men drink from my hands and lips and hug me for dear life from on their knees. I’ve pulled them out of dark prisons, drifted on quiet lakes, let them sleep in…
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Attracting a Relationship with a Specific Person
Photo copyright by mikeleary83‘s; Creative common license Is it unethical to ask for a particular relationship with a particular person? Some say yes, but when the heart is involved and you love the person whom you want a particular type of relationship with, you don’t want to settle for less. You may be willing to…
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Compassion Is Not Weakness
Photo by drp Something startling happened in a couple of new relationships that were shaping up to be quite beautiful. I didn’t understand and for several days, I’ve asked for understanding. There were echoes of similiar relationships that ended suddenly, without an explanation at the time or an explanation that came later that I didn’t…
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Why I'm Not Looking for My "Other Half"
Photo by Dave Parker It’s been at least a dozen years since I was first introduced to Stephen Covey’s THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE but I had forgotten his theories on dependence to independence to interdependence until someone read them to me recently in context of our work environment. I was still…
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7 Tips to Stop Getting Advice You Don't Want
Bowl of Smoke photo by Melanie Cook. A few years back, imperfect strangers would stop me in the grocery store and give me advice. On everything. My looks, my clothes, my love life, my purchases. Everything. If one more person had told me what I should do with my life, I would have exploded. I…
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Can You Attract Old Lovers Back into Your Life?
[LADY IN WAITING, inside a 1000-year-old temple, c 2008 by Lorna Tedder] Can you attract important people from your past–particularly old friends and lovers–BACK into your life? Of the Law of Attraction followers I’ve met and worked with, fully a third are looking for easy money and a second third just want that special person…