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Nov 4, 2009, 9:40 pm
Three Word Wednesday
Karma
Obey
Wither
Karma is the belief that the effects of a person's actions can determine his/her destiny. Yesterday I wrote about living a life of intention. Rather than... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2009, 11:01 am
Yes my dear comment friends, we are going to have another grandchild at the end of February. A little boy will grace our family. On this day I wish that every child that were born into this world co... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2009, 11:47 am
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Listen for my message on the evening breeze
Whispering to this heaven on earth.
I am living for now on the wings of a wind
Waiting for the beauty of birth.
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Nov 1, 2009, 8:38 pm
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Reading is doorway for me. I have traveled to every corner of the earth and man's mind while reading what I consider to be some of the best authors in modern times. I am guil... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2009, 10:37 pm
Saturday, October 31, 2009 #187 - Adventure Setting out on an adventure is one thing...planning on climbing a very high mountain? Pack your gear, plot yo... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2009, 10:59 am
Note: This is a post I wrote for IIIWW. The mobile home is real and we do have it for sale.
Vintage Mobile home looks like
this inside only less furniture. 1964
Today my husband and I went to s... Comment - Like
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Oct 25, 2009, 1:55 pm
From my comments:
Renaming my blogI've been thinking about renaming my blog. One day this last week I posted a poem about words and where they come from. I want the new name for this blog becaus... Comment - Like
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Oct 24, 2009, 3:03 pm
Eleanor H. Porter
Author of Pollyanna
1913
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Remember Pollyanna? She was a character in a book, childish, happy, always finding the best in people and situations. I have been accus... Comment - Like
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Oct 23, 2009, 3:04 pm
I am seeking a new name (not address) for my blog. Barbara's Travels just does not fit anymore. "Mine" seems too little so "Wind Blown Mind" keeps creeping up on me. The name may be simply "Words... Comment - Like
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Oct 22, 2009, 10:54 am
The side walk shown with
the glistening of rain falling
for the first time in the autumn changing.
That it happened a million times before
was of no consequence.
Golden leaves hung clean from trees
th... Comment - Like
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Oct 21, 2009, 3:52 pm
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Heartache
Jangle
Reckless
He had grown up with the conviction it was beneath his dignity to explain himself.... On the farm you said you would or you wouldn't, that Roosev... Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2009, 12:54 pm
I have, on many occasions, written making reference to Malcolm Gladwell's book, The Tipping Point. The book is a mind bender I think. If you have not read it, you should. Through out the book h... Comment - Like
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Oct 19, 2009, 7:29 pm
I have known for always that youth is a gift.
In children, ideas run free as the wind.
When the mind of a child keeps living on,
An artful innocence will flow from the canvas or page.
Only the purest... Comment - Like
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Oct 18, 2009, 2:18 pm
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
from Stewart Little "There would be a lot fewer wars if more people would just give up."
FAMILY
Our grandson, Brayden was born at the end of March... Comment - Like
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Oct 17, 2009, 10:10 pm
Please check out this link to TED. I think you will all find it most interesting. It is a new way of looking at how we provide drinking water for third world countries. When we talk about JUNK filth... Comment - Like
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Oct 16, 2009, 9:20 pm
I was there. You know, I saw what was happening. A car came from around the corner...one of those big cars. Red. Yes I'm sure it was red. We were playing baseball in the street and we had to ... Comment - Like
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Oct 13, 2009, 9:44 pm
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M-m-m-m.....thoughts flashed here and there.
What was in that hole in the dirt just by the front door...m-m-m-m-m-m! I suppose a rock will be enough to keep who ev... Comment - Like
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Oct 11, 2009, 6:08 pm
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I spend the majority of each year in a place I love to call "The Waiting Room for Heaven". We all are 'of an age' and each year is a gift. To say that we a... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2009, 10:09 pm
Bump in the night...the baby heard the sound and cried. Unknown to it's ears, the sound woke it from a dreamless sleep. As the parent rushed to it's side, a guardian angel brushed the babies... Comment - Like
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Oct 8, 2009, 7:52 pm
Fallow
Limit
Vocal
Very Old But Still True
Dreams lay fallow in the field
waiting for decisions to be made.
In that field their possibilities were endless...
they floated through the air without... Comment - Like
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Oct 3, 2009, 8:24 pm
Image by Always at Home via Flickr The Graduation Kiss
If her mother had ever kissed her she could not remember. It just wasn't the thing to do. Even her friends today would say that all that ... Comment - Like
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Sep 30, 2009, 11:41 am
The shovel came as a complete surprise. Of course she had always asked. Generally a recent trip to the store prompted the answer but this one just was not a gift off the toy aisle shelf.
"So", she ... Comment - Like
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Sep 29, 2009, 8:25 pm
Of all the stories I have ever written I think I have always loved the Tooth Fairy and God the best. The story captures the memories of my children growing up in a one simple short story. I think t... Comment - Like
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Sep 27, 2009, 9:20 pm
NO, NO, NO
Two souls with a single thought
Two hearts that
Beat as one
Caught in the embrace of an other's world.
The perfect love while others
Wondered at the unlikelihood
Of it all....Love with... Comment - Like
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Sep 26, 2009, 11:06 am
Sunday Scribblings
Cheese
The Phone Call...Agnes and Leona
The cheese was free...can you believe that? You just drive to the Senior Citizen Center and they are giving cheese away. I got 5 pounds. ... Comment - Like
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Sep 24, 2009, 3:47 pm
That was "Don't' Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" with Slim Wilkins. Now for the news: Negotiations for a peaceful settlement to end the Korean war are moving very slowly. While UN negotiato... Comment - Like
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Sep 20, 2009, 5:05 pm
Growing older as a couple had not been easy for them. Anna had matured into a the role that was cast for her all those years ago. She was a little broader at the hips but still erect and proud. She... Comment - Like
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Sep 19, 2009, 9:11 pm
Sunday Scribblings
Hungry
(The following is a paid(?) advertisement.)
Writing in a vacuum? Not inspired to write anything worth while? Needing some inspiration? Here is the solution you have been... Comment - Like
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Sep 16, 2009, 8:58 pm
Hanky
Thick
Drift
Should the office call will you tell them that I am ill? There are a few things that I need to take care of this morning.
Are you ill?
Well, kind of...I mean I don't feel rig... Comment - Like
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Sep 15, 2009, 3:39 pm
Chris Dunphy from Tales from Technomadia had this to say about the Burning Man event in Nevada at the end of last month. Since I was writing only from what I could read (and comprehend?) I did not ge... Comment - Like
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Sep 13, 2009, 1:28 pm
Sunday Scribblings
Tattoo
It said "Burning Man" in the news item at the side of my home page. I am fascinated by the fact that people actually might burst into flames for no reason at all...I think i... Comment - Like
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Sep 10, 2009, 12:14 pm
I need to tell you all that I made a few spelling mistakes in my post yesterday...the blogger spell check didn't see it and neither did I. I am a teacher...flawed but still proud. I did laugh wh... Comment - Like
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Sep 9, 2009, 9:51 am
IIIWW
Disarm
Engage
Mayhem
it was the day for seeking a dream.the mayhem of frustration left behindwas it possible to leave that only to think on sweetness and light?could it be that such a feminine... Comment - Like
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Sep 6, 2009, 11:59 am
Picture by
Barbara Torris
2009
Sunday Scribblings
The Key
The house was empty, waiting for just the right person to return with the key to the front door. It had stood that way for 25 years. On the ... Comment - Like
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Sep 4, 2009, 10:35 pm
I need to post on a perfect Friday...I want you to all know that I find happiness in the smallest things. I have not read the news or blogged or even gone near the computer until just now, 8:30 p.m. ... Comment - Like
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Sep 4, 2009, 1:43 am
IIIWW
Glare
Luster
Threat
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night. That cat had gone out, the dog had come in and the husband was asleep snoring... Comment - Like
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Aug 29, 2009, 1:29 pm
Sunday Scribblings...Poetry
The Lyrics of Her Song...
We all turned our heads as she walked down the beach
Poetry in motion...birds sang her song,
The long folding skirt clung to her body
Her grayin... Comment - Like
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Aug 28, 2009, 10:40 am
Fiction Friday
August 28, 2009
Decommissioned Prison Use Information Clouded
Morningside, Oregon August 28, 1953
by Anna Erickson, editor
A new Government research and development facility is to b... Comment - Like
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Aug 26, 2009, 9:45 am
Fracture
Noise
Vanish
I only lived there for seventeen years. The place I called home from the beginning of my life was not what I imagined as my future. But you need to understand that I have a wa... Comment - Like
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Aug 25, 2009, 1:11 pm
(We) loved with a love that was more than love....
for Carry on Tuesday
If all the words that were spoken in love
Were to fill the book of time
If all the others were left to rot
Would happiness alwa... Comment - Like
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Aug 24, 2009, 4:18 pm
Sunday came and went with no post on Sunday Scribblings...adult was the word the girls chose this week. I guess it must not have lit a fire of creativity in me because I passed and posted a blog on t... Comment - Like
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Aug 23, 2009, 12:07 pm
I recieved an email the other day from a person with very good intentions. It was a letter written with another persons interpretation of H.R. 3200, the health care initiative. It is being circulat... Comment - Like
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Aug 19, 2009, 9:57 am
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I found a journal yesterday. It was one I wrote back in the days before my computer was a permanent part of my travel baggage. Reading a few of the pages brought back a time when... Comment - Like
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Aug 17, 2009, 2:16 pm
ARIZONA VS FLORIDA (not a football game)
If you are looking for a retirement locations, here is some information you may find interesting.
Florida it seems has fallen under the cloud of pessimism. ... Comment - Like
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Aug 16, 2009, 4:06 pm
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I see things that are so interesting on the net. So, of course, I need to share. Today the article was on Tree Hugger. Did you know that there is a giant rat eating plant out there ... Comment - Like
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Aug 16, 2009, 12:53 pm
Moonrise over the RV resort
2008
iphone
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How to Sell a Motor Home
in the know information
(from a RANK amateur)
We have sold our motor home, a golf cart, given away a refrigerator... Comment - Like
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Aug 15, 2009, 4:52 pm
For Sunday Scribblings
The invitation said dinner would be served at eight. They had been printed for almost a month and she knew that they needed to be sent before the day was out. A birthday was... Comment - Like
My three blogs....one for the retirement life I enjoy (A Senior's Life Style), one for writing of fiction and personal thoughts (Barbara's Travels) and one for political comments and information (Just Give Me the Facts). A split personality...maybe!!!
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