Black Oak's Daughter

First, a story.  This was in my e-mail this morning. The title links back to the source if you want to check out the site. I get a couple of e-mails from them every day.
A Real Good Time
Time well spent doesn’t have to include fun activities or laughter. Deep human connection is what brings me [...]

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There’s a site in my blogroll called Create A Connection where so many creative people visit. I haven’t contributed as much as I could there (my bad), but I really enjoy checking out the websites of all of the other contributors. What amazing, creative, in touch people gather there.  They do a weekly “getting to know [...]

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I honor your Gods
I drink from your well
I bring an unprotected heart to our meeting place
I hold no cherished outcomes
I will not negotiate by withholding
I am not subject to disappointment

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Today my mom would have been 84.   A year ago I wrote a long post about how I finally made real peace with the past, mostly with her.  In learning so much about myself, I learned that I am my mother’s daughter, in spite of my every effort to resist that, and in a lot of [...]

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The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.” —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.
Thich Nhat Hanh

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Love yourself—accept yourself—forgive yourself—and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
Leo Buscaglia

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Beauty
1: the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit : LOVELINESS
 
Beauty
the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), [...]

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I have a web-friend. Well, I have quite a few of them actually, but this one is someone that continually surprises me with her depth of understanding. 
DeepSky and I became friends at a time when we were both going through the end of a long term relationship. We’ve kept in touch off and on. She’s someone [...]

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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves ‘who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?’Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your [...]

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