Tag: change
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Change Is Good
Dear readers: I’ll be making some changes at THE SPIRITUAL ECLECTIC over the next couple of weeks. I’m in the mood for a new look and, as new developments occur in my life and what I enjoy doing, I’ll be adding those things to the site. Plus, funny enough, I couldn’t possibly be busier, so…
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Speak of the Dead
When a loved one dies, we are often crushed by the realization that life goes on without them. It’s no different when someone is “dead” to us, whatever the reason may be. It’s just not as obvious because we assume they still live on elsewhere, not just in our memory. We tend to remember the…
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Jump or Be Pushed
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising. In another of my own personal version of “Groundhog Day: The Movie,” I woke yet again to Hinder’s “Lips of an Angel.” Different time, different station, same song…every day this week, including weekends. I hated the song the first zillion times I heard it,…
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Stuck in the Past
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. It’s funny how people you haven’t spoken with in months or even years can communicate out of the blue and assume they know what’s going on in your life. Sometimes the messages are ambiguous at best and insane at worst. They just don’t…
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Transition
Lance, one of the captains I work with who’s just returned from months in the desert, dropped by my office to say hello and Happy Thanksgiving, and we ended up in a riotous conversation about his feelings about his wife, his kids, and childbirth. We both relived a few moments of our children’s entrance into …
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The Joy of Hurricanes and Tropical Storms
See that light blue dot in the panhandle? That’s me. My relatives are all pink and purple. I have to be careful about admitting this because people will throw rocks at me. There’s something about hurricanes that I just love. Two somethings. First of all, there’s the raw power of Mother Nature. For all the…
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When Self-Improvement Fails to Improve
Self-portrait exercise–looking at myself in different ways. Sometimes, people do not improve. That’s a hard thing for me to recognize because I’m an idealist, and I’d really love to think that people who embark on self-improvement–and most people at least say they’re trying to better themselves–actually make a little bit of headway. I guess the…
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So DO Something about It!
Some people make big changes in their lives. They never say a word about what they’re doing…they just quietly redefine themselves. Others talk all the time about how much they want to change and what they’re doing to make it happen…and never take the second step toward improving their lives. I hear from many people…
