Sometimes in life, we have to learn to say our goodbyes.  It's inevitable.  Life happens, situations change, circumstances occur and those we love leave.  It's not ever easy . . if it were, there wouldn't be a whole industry dealing with grieving and therapy wrapped up in helping people to cope with losses.  The simple fact of the matter is that we are always going to have to learn to face the inevitable thief who comes to steal our steady contentment and joy, replacing it with fear, anger, p...
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I haven't posted anything for a while, I usually regret the time when I have "dry spells" of either motivation or insight, or perhaps I have distractions which cause my blight.  I don't know all the reasons this time to explain away a few months of silence in my thoughts, but I do know what, or rather whom, has inspired this latest entry.  I have a very special reason for wanting to share something from my heart, and the avid desire to write now is only explained by the unbearable ache of his...
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Happy Any Day of Love . . . today, tomorrow, the day after . . the next!! Each day should be a day we freely give of our love, not just one day earmarked for it. You don't have to proclaim it one day for it to be "heard", nor felt by somebody's heart on any given day! There are cards, songs, balloons, candies, gifts, all wrapped up for giving tomorrow, but the greater gift is your love given every day hereafter!

It's not just one day of the year we should choose to share our love or make someo...
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Are you always left to wonder, hopeless or hopeful romantic?  We live in a world, where, by the nature of our lifestyles - the busy way we proceed through our days, we are often hitting and missing the mark with one another . . . love is left stranded and abandoned on the rocky shore, battered by the waves, we are beaten down.  We search, we seek, we hope, we wait. We give and expect, until we think, surely there is nothing worth giving and waiting for.  Just when we think we will find love, ...
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A classic to me, that movie, "You've Got Mail".  I enjoy the interaction of the characters played by Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks.  It's romantic, simple and lovely.  Two people defy the odds of life, they fall in love despite themselves, with all their animous, they are "meant to be".  Are two people really meant to be?

Well, I guess that depends who you ask.  If you ask a romantic, positive-thinking person such as myself, then the answer is an unequivocable YES!  People aren't limited by love's ra...
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You know, no other organ retains a sense of your emotion like your heart!  It is not just functional, providing the life-giving beats which drive the oxygenated blood through your body, in rhythmic fashion to keep you alive.  It does this without even one action on your part, it is part of a "subliminal" system, an unconscious system which keeps your body going.  The heart also monitors your emotions though, as it most assuredly senses the changes of love's breezes blowing over it's bows.  Th...
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As long as we have evil revealed through infertile thoughts, words and deeds of men, we will need to find our comfort and our rest in God's abundant, verdant pastures. - Cheryl Ries, September 9, 2010


We are fast approaching an another anniversary of September 11th, a most notorious day for realizing in modern terms the extent of man's hatred, based on a centuries-old tradition of religious intolerance.  We've seen it played out all too often throughout the history of civilization, as long as ...
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