Driving too fast to slow thru a lens hazard

(Don’t Try This at Home, Kids)

A contact lens done me in. I tried to insert one in each eye while driving behind schedule to get to a meeting Saturday morning.

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Highly Sensitive People get Highest Grade

     I feel I have just awakened from a dream. I see a mother, a father, as well as a brother and sister smiling at me.  Each one is new to me. Each is the member of a family I have wanted to belong to all my life.

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God Wins in Showdown with the Buddha

     God won in the religious showdown I created between Him and the Buddha.

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Can’t A Guy Get A Break Around Here?

       What am I doing with this wet rag in my hand? The woman at the meeting hall gave it to me, told me to “wipe down” some wooden box up on a stage with others cleaning and organizing for this Buddhist “event.”

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My ‘Right Speech’ May Have Wronged You

You Did it Again, Michael J.

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Veterans’ PTSD Helped at Omega Lands

     Pictures, statues and other works of art often capture the beauty of the soul as people seek peace and love through different spiritual paths.

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Hereafter or not, why risk taking a chance?

     I face “High Noon” this Sunday. And nobody from town will help me deal with whether I’ll live or die in the outcome. None can, because the confrontation is something I knew for some time that I would have to face alone.

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Women Know the Help Boys Need in War

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Macho Man Marvels at Mistaken Miss

I’ve been shooting the bull the past several weeks with JhanaJian, of whom I thought was this “Asian guy” from Vietnam. Turns out I was wrong. Dead wrong about everything I thought I knew about JhanaJian.

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Flowers still Brighten Up my New ‘Home’

     A spectacular combination of yellow and purple graced my eyes as I traveled yesterday to America’s first home, the City of Brotherly Love, in Philadelphia.

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Gratitude Given Freely Can Grow on You

     Want to feel good? Pick out five things each day to show your gratitude. Write ’em down. But, don’t try to fake it. You really gotta look for some thing in your life, some person, some reason that, deep down inside, you can say “makes me grateful.”

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Life’s daily details creates a colorful you

     Here I am, walking on the high wire. No net below. My big mouth got me up here, and here I’ll stay for 30 days.

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Spirit World may Speak Within Each of Us

Continued from Voices of a Past Life arise from meditation

     Don’t like this “hearing voices” phenomenon. I am uncomfortable with it. Instead of “voices” maybe it’s more like “spirits.” Yeah, that sounds less strange. A little “spirit” spoke to him. His “spirits” are high today.

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Voices of a Past Life Arise from Meditation

     Am I hearing voices? Am I becoming a person you gotta be a little worried about? Kept an eye on? You know, one of “those” people?

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How You can Smile in the Face of Death

     I looked Death in the Face and did not blink yesterday.

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Second Opinions Sought for My Salvation

     Psst! Hey you. Yeah, the good-lookin’ one with that Spiritual Glow about ’em.

     Ever seek a second opinion on how to get into heaven? No, I’m not talking about waiting until you’re dead. I mean, right “now.”

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Warmth Flows to Where Heart’s Needed

     My heart opens more with a warm cup of coffee in my left hand than my right.

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Bartlows’ Dinner Drives Away All the Blues

     “I remember once when mom made a delicious snack dish,” Amy said at a Christmas dinner I attended with my in-laws last night.

     “Only Once?” someone cried out

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Police nab attention whenever One roams

     Saw a police force van and immediately slowed down while driving.

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Coming home grows out of Inner Wisdom

Part III of Bunny Series, see Run-Away Bunny

     Two days is all it took for a pet rabbit to realize an animal hutch made of wood and wire ain’t such a bad place to call “home.”

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Home Visit will Provide Internal Answers

        So many choices. So many books to read, words to digest. How do you know where to begin?

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Love’s ‘First Kiss’ Lasts . . . For Ever More

First Kiss?

     I can’t remember it. It must have been a real “forgettable“ one.

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Thanks for a Path that Preserved my Life

     Ever wonder what life would have been like if you made different choices years earlier?

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— Why Must This Path Purt So Much? —

Pain: What Good Is It?

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“Don’t like this love…(crap)” she told me!

     “I don’t like this love shit,” a woman I was about to meditate with whispered to me while in the circle of our six-person meditation “community.”

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Veterans find joy in their own backyards

     You can’t know how much pleasure there is in feeding a squirrel until you open yourself to the wonders of nature . . . and of course . . .  feed a squirrel . . . daily. 

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Serving others helps to serve you as well

The purpose of Life is to Know, Love, and Serve the Creator.

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