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Funny how some of us do hear happiness knocking, but hear it and refuse to open the door! Sometimes those "not-so-happy places" become so familiar, so comfortable, we resist the change...even when it's for the better.
P.S. Mmmmmmmm....Cheetos! :)
Commented Jul 10, 2011 on Where is Your Happy Place? at Spirited Woman Blogger Team
Where is Your Happy Place?
“Go to your happy place!” I encouraged my daughter one recent afternoon while she was making a rather poor attempt to not itch a mosquito bite. In a last desperate effort to quell her uncontrollable need to scratch, she sat on her hands, closed her eyes, and smiled. Curious, I asked her, “Wher...
I know about the dangers of regrets and the what-if's that accompany them. Heck, that could easily define my life...if I let it. But a side effect of one of those "regrets" are my two kids. Had I done it what I saw as the right way at the time, they wouldn't be here. And THAT I would regret!
Commented Feb 12, 2011 on Learning to Live Life Without Regrets at Spirited Woman Blogger Team
Learning to Live Life Without Regrets
It was 1984. As I sat on the floor with my best friend and slowly cut the collars (and more) out of all twelve of my beloved sweatshirts that I had collected for years, I turned to her and innocently asked, “Do you think we’re going to regret hacking up all of our sweatshirts just so we can lo...
Very inspiring. Sometimes TRUE GRIT is the difference between merely surviving and really living.
Commented Jan 15, 2011 on Do You Have True Grit? at Spirited Woman Blogger Team
Do You Have True Grit?
As the movie theater darkened one recent afternoon, I reached into my popcorn bucket and sighed. Earlier, the family had voted and I had lost. During the balloting and what seemed to be an unfair twist of fate, the dog had accidentally raised her paw when it was time to select the movie - inno...
Would you mind if we cloned you...a few billion times? ;)
We've come so far since then and yet, in some ways, have moved so little, as publicly demonstrated just a few days ago in my town's city council meeting. Is it sad or appropriate that bigotry comes in so many colors?
Thank you for sharing your story and a little ray of sunshine for us all, Vicky!
Commented Oct 29, 2010 on Cast a Stone and Change Your World at Spirited Woman Blogger Team
Cast a Stone and Change Your World
It was 1967 and over 400,000 troops were serving in Vietnam, race riots were breaking out in cities all over the United States, and I was in first grade in Omaha, Nebraska. I felt nothing but fury and sadness as I watched the news on television and witnessed police turning fire hoses on the bl...
Very poignant as this touches me on a very personal level. Rejection also gives us the opportunity to reinvent ourselves.
To quote that great philosopher, Tim Allen, in the movie, "Galaxy Quest": Never give up. Never surrender.
So shallow and yet so deep! ;)
- Jenni
Commented Jul 17, 2010 on Reject Rejection at Spirited Woman Blogger Team
Reject Rejection
It was on the playground at Harrison Elementary School where I first felt the sting of rejection. As I stood in a line at the edge of a dusty softball field, I glanced over at the appointed team captain. “Cindy!” he yelled. Cindy turned around, smiled at me, and gave me the thumbs up sign as ...
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