Tag: random
group name: makeadifference
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March 27, 2008 02:41 PM EDT --
On our recent trip to Australia and New Zealand, we were unhappy to learn that domestic flights in New Zealand had severe weight restrictions…only one piece of checked luggage is allowed, maximum . . . more
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March 15, 2006 05:17 AM EST --
Does anyone else___
Get so involved in so many threads at once that you lose control entirely and end up with sixteen tabs open..... [where was I?] [give up and get coffeeeeee ] [take the kids to the . . . more
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March 12, 2006 07:37 PM EST --
The Shah of Iran once said of women, "You have never produced a Bach or a Michelangelo...," and that statement deeply bothered me. In point of fact, women did produce both Bach and Michaelangelo, . . . more
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February 28, 2006 02:34 PM EST --
These days, nobody writes letters anymore. With Internet and telecommunication technologies, we have emails, IMs, and better yet, my folks in China are mostly writing SMS on mobile phones.
My dad in China, . . . more
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March 27, 2006 08:16 AM EST --
Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.
-----Edward Steichen (1879-1973) American photographer
Look
Now See
How often do I merely glance? . . . more
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April 17, 2006 02:37 PM EDT --
Macy stood beside the door to blow her nose on the remnants of her tissue. There was no stopping the tears but she could at least save herself a bit of humiliation by not sniffing at her guest. Timing . . . more
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April 18, 2006 07:31 PM EDT --
In addition to the traditional offerings most generous, doting parents lavish on a child, mine infused a lifeline to their unrestricted generosity. They gave me the world, by allowing me to see . . . more
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April 10, 2006 04:38 PM EDT --
I understand the importance of honesty. Intelligent, self-respecting people speak and live the truth. Those negative comments I made about taking things seriously haunted me last night, when I realized . . . more
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March 15, 2006 12:21 AM EST --
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I thought this article might interest the community at Gather.
It was written in response to several disparaging comments made about Australia by . . . more
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December 29, 2005 03:49 PM EST --
It was warm, so I sat outside, to eat my lunch in the sun
I met a man who'd lost his way, and didn't know any one
He swallowed his pride, avoided my eyes,
and in a tiny voice, shared with me his . . . more
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April 07, 2006 09:25 PM EDT --
"I know your heart is breaking and your soul cries. Humor is the only way we stay even remotely sane when faced with life in all its brutality." ----- I wrote in an e-mail to a dear . . . more
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April 15, 2006 10:34 AM EDT --
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." W.B. Yeats
I was reminded of this, one of my old favorite quotes, during a conversation this week with colleagues . . . more
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March 23, 2006 12:36 PM EST --
6 weeks ago my daughter and I started cleaning out our basement. I say started because of course it is not finished yet. We did put a huge dent in it though. I estimate that we removed a half a ton of . . . more
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October 25, 2006 02:05 PM EDT --
This year's graduating seniors at Northwestern University heard three great leadership lessons from their commencement speaker, Illinois Senator Barack Obama. The lessons came from his own extraordinary . . . more
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February 27, 2006 12:35 AM EST --
When I first came to the United States, in a social event, someone asked me:
"What's your name?"
"Helen," I answered.
She looked at me ambiguously???. Her eyes were clearly telling . . . more
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August 15, 2006 08:53 PM EDT --
I have had the same therapist for over fifteen years.
At one point when my marriage was failing and I had
better insurance, I would see her once a week. Now I
consider her my "on-call" . . . more
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December 01, 2006 10:06 PM EST --
I look to the sky and I wonder,
I look to the earth and I think.
What is this all about?
Why does change feel inevitable?
Yet why does it never really come?
I find myself currently . . . more
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April 12, 2006 12:20 PM EDT --
Some people are saying that a certain poem on gather is plagiarized,(I won't say whose) and it got me to thinking...
There is so much in our life to write about, so much wealth, love, pain and . . . more
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May 18, 2006 10:20 AM EDT --
Blessings sometimes thwack you upside the head. That happened to me recently. I have a friend from high school who is a fellow writer and with whom I share a lot of interests...collecting rocks, science . . . more
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July 13, 2006 05:31 AM EDT --
Today is my birthday, and I would have written this musing even if it weren't the beginning of my fifty-seventh year on this planet, but birthdays remind me of something very important.
You see, every . . . more
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