tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87053239875365535602024-03-14T03:27:26.229-07:00Ang.Mag.♥Unity Stamp Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720856784613428243noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705323987536553560.post-38850990054750667212017-11-05T13:59:00.002-08:002017-11-05T17:51:30.960-08:00Just being honest......<div style="text-align: center;">
If you find yourself saying </div>
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"....but I'm just being honest" </div>
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chances are you've just been unkind. </div>
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Honesty doesn't heal. </div>
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Empathy does.</div>
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-Dan Waldschmidt</div>
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We do this. </div>
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Speak unkind words. Unkindly.</div>
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and justify it with....</div>
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"Just being honest."</div>
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SUPER DUPER. Thanks. </div>
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{insert sarcasm}</div>
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Here is what we need to remember....</div>
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"....just being "honest" - sometimes isn't all that honest at all.</div>
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Our "honesty" certainly isn't an excuse to be viciously outspoken about another person's situation.</div>
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What we say for the sake of "honesty" defines our character. </div>
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Our "honesty" is OUR feelings.</div>
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Our "honesty" is OUR perspective</div>
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Our "honesty" is OUR viewpoint. </div>
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It's ours and OURS alone. <br />
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<b>Our honesty is not an expression of TRUTH, it is an expression of OPINION.</b></div>
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It's as simple as this.</div>
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When we feel the need to tell people our "honest" thoughts about a situation....</div>
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We can't then simply shut down and walk away thinking we did some valiant justice to the world, by having the nerve to speak up. </div>
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All we've done is expressed our thoughts based on ONLY OUR experiences in life. </div>
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The person we are being "honest" with should not have to accept our honesty - as their truth - simply because we "honestly" expressed it.</div>
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Telling someone our "honest" thoughts on THEIR decisions, with expectation of them then accepting our truth as theirs.</div>
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That isn't honesty at all, is it? </div>
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It's more ignorance and self-loathing in my humble opinion. </div>
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Expecting some ridiculous change in another persons life should occur because of our "honest" expression is so dang selfish.<br />
It's not our journey - it is theirs. </div>
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Talking about someone in their absence abrasively and following it up with - "Just being honest...." - doesn't justify us. </div>
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Don't get me wrong. I love an "honest" conversation, with "honest" opinions....</div>
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WHEN THE INTENT IS TO HELP. TO HEAL. TO CONNECT. TO UNDERSTAND.</div>
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{not simply "be right"}</div>
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Empathy combined with honesty. </div>
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That is where it's at. </div>
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Such a beautiful concept, yes?</div>
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People with empathy listen, understand, love.</div>
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They embrace each person's story.</div>
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They are not offended when someones truth doesn't match theirs. </div>
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They accept things for what they are. They see all sides of things.</div>
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They are concerned with healing. That's it and that's all. </div>
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With my divorce, my new relationship and the life changing decisions I am making - </div>
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I now have a new understanding of what "honesty" can do when applied poorly, and selfishly.</div>
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Relationships break. </div>
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Rumors spread.</div>
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Friendships are lost.<br />
The most heartbreaking thing about this ----ALL issues arise because people use their so- called honesty to decide to choose sides, make assumptions, close minds, close hearts, stop listening, stop understanding - start assuming and veer off in a direction of animosity and disdain toward people who, quite simply, make different choices than they would.<br />
Un-necessary.<br />
We have NEVER walked in the shoes of another human being on this planet. No one deserves to be mistreated because of my truth, your truth, anyone's truth.<br />
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Honesty should be used to open our hearts to one another. </div>
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Listen to one another's truth.</div>
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Embrace, Empathize, and Love.</div>
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My son Luke recently opened a difficult "honest" conversation with me.</div>
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It was the most beautiful thing in the whole wide world. </div>
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We now have a new awareness and understanding of not only the situation at hand but also of one another.<br />
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He's 22. </div>
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He has mastered honest, loving, expression.</div>
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It is time full grown adults get their shit together. </div>
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Honestly.</div>
Unity Stamp Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720856784613428243noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705323987536553560.post-5941682699774944632016-08-20T08:19:00.001-07:002016-08-20T08:19:28.744-07:00Numb.when your heart goes numb.<div>
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when you feel nothing. zero.</div>
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just existence.</div>
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it's annoying. </div>
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i will say that. </div>
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'cause i am a feeler. </div>
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i am addicted to it in a sense.</div>
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i am led by my heart.</div>
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instincts.</div>
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feelings.</div>
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something has happened.</div>
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i think my heart is broken. </div>
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it's not working normally. </div>
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numb.</div>
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i want the rush of joy that makes my heart flip flop.</div>
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the comfort of love that warms my soul</div>
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the feeling of anticipation that inspires hope. </div>
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i want the sorrow that invokes a prolonged session of tears.</div>
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i want the anger that spurs me to make changes.</div>
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i want to feel. something. anything.</div>
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maybe. </div>
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numb is the way this universe protects us. </div>
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knowing when we have endured far too much....</div>
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it puts our soul under general anesthesia </div>
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so we DO NOT feel. </div>
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for once.</div>
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maybe. </div>
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or perhaps we have felt so much for so long.</div>
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we simply kinda have run out of feelings.</div>
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temporarily.</div>
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perhaps we have felt what OTHERS feel so intensely </div>
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we now are taking a moment to lose the empath in us....</div>
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and surround our hearts with armor. </div>
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so we don't lose it completely.</div>
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be numb. </div>
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protect your sanity. let it be ok. for now.</div>
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but don't accept it as normal.</div>
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being numb....requires a diligent return to life.</div>
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we can't let this demon stick around long.</div>
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life is meant to be felt. </div>
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deeply. passionately. wildly.</div>
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to be moved in one direction or another through our feelings. </div>
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our instincts. the nudging of our hearts. </div>
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listen to music till your heart stirs.</div>
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watch a favorite movie. </div>
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meet with a friend.</div>
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love up someone you love.</div>
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do what it takes. </div>
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life requires you.</div>
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Unity Stamp Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720856784613428243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705323987536553560.post-55434822859587546152015-11-09T22:20:00.001-08:002015-11-09T22:34:36.033-08:00it is....but it isn't.<div style="text-align: center;">
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on one level everything is good.</div>
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beautiful. stellar. amazing.</div>
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you hold true. </div>
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you maintain.</div>
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you do what you can.</div>
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you just make it all lovely. like always.</div>
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stellar.</div>
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it's good, right?</div>
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but....</div>
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like an off beat country song.....</div>
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that everyone loves.</div>
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cause they just GET IT.</div>
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it's not all that OK.</div>
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it's off. </div>
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beautifully off.</div>
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perfection is an illusion.</div>
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it does not exist. </div>
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ever.</div>
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but you can MAKE it work.</div>
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cause you LOVE the people you want it to work for. </div>
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it's a no matter what situation...</div>
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however...</div>
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at SOME point.</div>
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your heart.</div>
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gives up.</div>
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is pushed.</div>
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doesen't fit.</div>
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so....</div>
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you go. let go.</div>
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it's a must situation.</div>
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everyone can BEG you to stay. </div>
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it works out for them.</div>
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perfectly.</div>
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you staying.</div>
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in the same place.</div>
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over. and over and over. </div>
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it's a pretty comfortable scenario.</div>
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FOR EVERYONE.</div>
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....else.</div>
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so....</div>
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here is the simple truth.</div>
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YOU </div>
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love me?</div>
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ok.</div>
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then.</div>
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i matter.</div>
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my efforts.</div>
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my faults.</div>
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my love.</div>
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my stupid sixth sense.</div>
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my in-ability to let go</div>
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easily. </div>
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every single day.</div>
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life is so LIFE.</div>
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and i embrace it.</div>
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feel it.</div>
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don't expect anything different of me ever.</div>
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till you come up with something stupidly funny.</div>
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then i got ya. </div>
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xoxo,</div>
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ang.</div>
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Unity Stamp Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720856784613428243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705323987536553560.post-38026389438062371822015-02-12T22:37:00.001-08:002015-02-13T05:47:24.402-08:00LOVE is what matters.<div style="text-align: center;">
so. </div>
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23 years ago.</div>
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this boy came into my life.</div>
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i knew at that VERY moment. </div>
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i would not ever in a million years be the same.</div>
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insta-love.</div>
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my heart.</div>
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expanded. </div>
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in an instant. </div>
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life became.....well.....LIFE.</div>
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don't you love it when that happens?</div>
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altering existence. </div>
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becoming a mama.</div>
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but not the only way....to feel altered in this beautiful life.</div>
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good gracious - there are SO MANY ways to expand this heart of ours.</div>
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i think...</div>
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we wake up every morning.</div>
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the same - yet different.</div>
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because every little experience, conversation, interaction</div>
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changes us.</div>
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slightly.</div>
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or significantly.</div>
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sometimes poor decisions of our past.<br />
come sneaking up.</div>
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right there, we face the reality of decisions we have made made...that hurt.</div>
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we are human...and love, life, and crazy...happen.</div>
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but at the same time.</div>
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it all comes around and there is a time and a place you have to stop hiding.</div>
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time to admit your insecurities, bad decisions, poor judgement </div>
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...and just say you are sorry.</div>
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life altered.</div>
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heart expanding.</div>
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freedom.</div>
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what was. is now simply a story.</div>
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an experience. </div>
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never repeated.</div>
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life. </div>
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don't ever say "never"</div>
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<b>NEVER happens far more often then forever.</b></div>
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however.....<br />
after all is said and done.</div>
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LOVE</div>
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is what matters.</div>
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Unity Stamp Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720856784613428243noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705323987536553560.post-42157156222163570762015-01-29T22:55:00.001-08:002015-02-04T11:43:48.100-08:007 months later.....<div style="text-align: center;">
someday i will be consistent. </div>
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but for now. </div>
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i am not.</div>
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for now i am all over the place.</div>
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why?<br />
because consistency is boring to me. </div>
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always has been...most likely always will be.</div>
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{my poor kids} </div>
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one minute they have bins full of matched socks, and underwear and clean clothes.</div>
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...the next minute. </div>
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nada.</div>
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NOTHING.<br />
but.....</div>
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they deal.</div>
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why? </div>
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because they ALL know.</div>
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i am consistent with ONE THING.</div>
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LOVE.</div>
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it never leaves.... ever.<br />
not for a second,</div>
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not when it comes to them.<br />
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i might flounder in my personal life.</div>
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i may not be the best wife, or friend, or business owner.</div>
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but....</div>
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my babies. </div>
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pure consistency.<br />
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with LIFE.</div>
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i am ALL over the place. </div>
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regressing. then progressing.</div>
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figuring things out.<br />
but.....<br />
with LOVE.<br />
nope.<br />
consistent.<br />
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i guess when it all comes down to it.<br />
i hope my un-conditional love is evident.</div>
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no strings.<br />
no expectations.<br />
just here.<br />
always.<br />
no. matter. what..<br />
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life. </div>
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good gracious. </div>
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i had no clue.<br />
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THIS life....</div>
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i love.</div>
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SO GRATEFUL.<br />
good God. i am blessed.</div>
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at the end of the day.</div>
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LOVE.</div>
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love.</div>
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LoVe.</div>
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it forgives, it forgets, it accepts, it understands.<br />
it holds zero expectations.<br />
it lifts up.<br />
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judgement is a joke.</div>
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ACCEPTANCE is everything.<br />
taking what is good and bad and understanding.<br />
SO VERY BEAUTIFUL.<br />
because not ONE SOUL has taken our journey.<br />
not one.<br />
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everything in me wants to be perfect.</div>
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nothing in me is.</div>
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but i LOVE.</div>
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deep. and i hope in the end.</div>
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that means EVERYTHING.</div>
Unity Stamp Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720856784613428243noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705323987536553560.post-67060671151785520702014-02-27T06:07:00.004-08:002014-02-27T07:19:42.296-08:00THAT girl.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">....once upon a time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">THAT girl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">had it all figured out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">that girl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">woke up every day with clear direction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">sure thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">and everything simply “fell into place”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">'cause that girl MADE it seem that way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">regardless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">she was the "sure" thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">the constant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">the strength.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">that girl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">right? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">you have known her.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">been her?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">sure strength.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">sure love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">sure beauty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">sure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">of anything. and everything. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">100%.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">convinced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">100%.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">{of her illusion} <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">SHE pushed through what needed pushing through.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">with a smile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">...and the sweetness of the sweetest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">that girl always did what needed to be done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">no. matter. what.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">{self compromising by the minute.}<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">... all was well and right in her world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">that girl knew exactly what it took.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">and she did it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">what else is she to do? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">she is THAT girl, after all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">THAT. girl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">is a mama.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">a friend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">a wife. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">a employee/employer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">a woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">everything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">to everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">AND ALL THE SAME <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">she is simply a girl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">just keepin' on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">keepin' on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">not to be underestimated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">{not for a second} <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">THAT girl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">{perfection at its least – and best – go figure.} <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">so what if...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">suddenly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">SHE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">isn't exactly THAT girl anymore?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">what if.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">perfection. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">fades to imperfection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">and clear direction becomes swayed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">what if.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">everything that used to fall gracefully into place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">simply crashes?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">HARD.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">what if.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">everything changes?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">SHE changes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">a little here. a little there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">and VOILA.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">suddenly - who's THAT GIRL!?!?!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">:)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">SHE is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">she IS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">THAT girl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">still.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">but different. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">love her if you want to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">or don't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">she isn't all that concerned. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">'cause now...she has <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">flaws and imperfections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">that make her real.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">wants and needs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">that are evident and straight forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">passion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">that doesn't apologize.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> crazy and lack of crazy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">simply because she knows her boundaries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">you should explore her mind and her heart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">'cause you can. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">'cause she MIGHT just let you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> she is not sure about one damn thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">and won't pretend to be.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> honor her strength, adore her weakness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">whatever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">she cares ABOUT you not WHAT you think. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">SHE simply IS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">she has NOTHING figured out with certainty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">but EVERYTHING resides in hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">and she prefers it that way..... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">she is beautifully confused.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">gorgeous chaos.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">reckless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">living. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">loving.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">IN it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">TO FEEL IT.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">it's a THAT girl thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">get it. or don't. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">been there<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- or
haven’t. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">admit it or not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">THIS girl is good either way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unity Stamp Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720856784613428243noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705323987536553560.post-37721669102717581142014-01-02T19:31:00.002-08:002014-01-02T19:31:55.897-08:00sometimes....we love. without loving.life has this way of throwing us off.<br />
a little bit.<br />
ya know?<br />
<br />
suddenly everything that made sense...<br />
makes no sense.<br />
<br />
our souls are so strong.<br />
yet maybe a little lost. <br />
they are SOULS for goodness sake.<br />
NOTHING is going to break them, yet EVERYTHING is going to challenge them.<br />
that is the purpose, right.<br />
<br />
they are persevere-ant.<br />
but at the same time.<br />
still searching.<br />
always -<br />
for what exactly it is....<br />
that makes them stir.<br />
<br />
it takes a lifetime to understand.<br />
<br />
i think.<br />
we are MEANT to feel.<br />
in this moment.<br />
in order to get to where we are going.<br />
<br />
so every time someone or something....<br />
whispers.<br />
pay attention.<br />
everything matters.<br />
on some level or another.<br />
<br />
soak it in - or let it go.<br />
your choice.<br />
<br />
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<a href=""><img src="http://sites.google.com/site/thismomentimages/images/AngelaSignature.png" /></a>Unity Stamp Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720856784613428243noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705323987536553560.post-70707398664167285832013-12-23T13:22:00.001-08:002013-12-23T13:31:39.364-08:00GET out of your HEAD. i dare ya. funny thing.<br />
someone just gave me a piece of advice i have needed for a VERY LONG time.<br />
<br />
"YOU need to get out of YOUR OWN HEAD"<br />
<br />
truth. so MUCH TRUTH.<br />
<br />
GET out of MY OWN HEAD.<br />
it is EXACTLY my problem.<br />
i am so relieved!!!!!<br />
someone finally had the guts to shoot it to me straight!<br />
<br />
it's what i have done always.<br />
<br />
i take a thought to entertain - create a monster - and beat the shit out of it.<br />
...and then just when i think i have won.<br />
sucker comes alive again.<br />
and i just sit and stare like, REALLY?!<br />
then we go around and around again.<br />
<br />
most of the time...eventually - i win, but why the stinkin' battle in the first place?<br />
what is the point?<br />
why even go around and around about it.<br />
JUST. let it GO! - crazy.<br />
<br />
time spent battling your thoughts is time wasted.<br />
completely wasted.<br />
an internal battle that just puts little stab marks into your heart.<br />
that aren't even necessary.<br />
dumb.<br />
<br />
what was, WAS.<br />
what is, IS.<br />
what will be, WILL BE.<br />
so live.<br />
love.<br />
enjoy the moment.<br />
...and take it as it comes.<br />
<br />
GET out of your head.<br />
best advice ever.<br />
taking it to heart.<br />
deep breath.<br />
now.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8705323987536553560"><img src="http://sites.google.com/site/thismomentimages/images/AngelaSignature.png" /></a>Unity Stamp Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720856784613428243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705323987536553560.post-34820658136382005692012-10-24T22:43:00.002-07:002012-10-24T22:43:24.134-07:00full circle moment.<div style="text-align: center;">
sometimes. </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">we just want to </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">SCREAM </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">at the </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">TOP OF OUR LUNGS...</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">everything about ANYTHING</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> that we have ever endured.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
every thought we have entertained. </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
every <b><i>emotion </i></b>we have felt.</div>
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{and still feel} </div>
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every wrong we have experienced - and right we have decided...</div>
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not to mention every. single. moment. <b><i>our little souls have endured -</i></b> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">regardless of <b><i>right or wrong</i></b></span>.</div>
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'cause it was<i> necessary</i> at the moment.</div>
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we "stuff" it all away.</div>
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like it never happened. </div>
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we look away.</div>
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'cause ignoring is the only thing that saves us, temporarily.</div>
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we move forward, and try to forget....</div>
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however. that moment of truth comes around.<br />
every. single. time.</div>
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eventually, as much as you fight it - feelings just start to emerge.</div>
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...and even maybe START TO make sense.</div>
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THE BIG PICTURE becomes just a little more clear.</div>
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ALL the stories connect. </div>
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and MUCH TO YOUR SURPRISE - they are more in depth and entwined - than you could have EVER imagined.</div>
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'cause you had a tiny "whisper" to open up.</div>
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your story no longer is JUST YOURS.</div>
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kinda scary.</div>
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till you realize,</div>
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we are connected. </div>
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fully.</div>
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by love. </div>
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by similarities. </div>
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by admiration. and understanding.</div>
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by what is to come, and by what has been.</div>
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so what is my point?</div>
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here you go.</div>
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let your <span style="font-size: x-large;">love </span>be driven by <span style="font-size: x-large;">whispers</span>.</div>
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let your <span style="font-size: x-large;">similarities</span> be <span style="font-size: x-large;">vulnerable.</span></div>
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<b><i>let your admiration run free...and your understanding be limitless....</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and let what is to come be THAT MUCH SWEETER because of what HAS been.</span><br />
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do you really think you have come this far by chance?<br />
nope.<br />
YOU have come this far by PURPOSE.<br />
own it.<br />
embrace it.<br />
use it.<br />
'cause it is all yours for the taking.<br />
there is NOTHING SWEETER in life than a full circle moment...<br />
and the realization that it has arrived.<br />
ENJOY.</div>
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Unity Stamp Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720856784613428243noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705323987536553560.post-85971151710405119192012-10-01T19:26:00.000-07:002012-10-02T06:08:35.325-07:00how big are your BOOTS?! <div style="text-align: center;">
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Sometimes.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">life wears BIG BOOTS.</span></div>
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i swear they are potentially<span style="font-size: x-large;"> size 26</span>.</div>
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<b><i>{that is big}</i></b></div>
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they fit snug and secure and know EXACTLY how to STOMP.</div>
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hard.</div>
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RIGHT on top of your head....</div>
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or maybe even </div>
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RIGHT IN FRONT of you so you fall into this abyss of a "boot print".</div>
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random.</div>
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but I KNOW </div>
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but you can relate.</div>
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right?</div>
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you are just flawlessly meandering along.</div>
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and then WHAM.</div>
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without warning....everything FALLS APART.</div>
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case and point. </div>
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<b>BOOT PRINT #1.</b></div>
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so....</div>
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you dig or climb your way out of the "HOLE" you had NO IDEA was coming....</div>
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it seems so completely foreign...</div>
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impossible to overcome. <b><i>and just plain unfair. </i></b></div>
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what you need to know is that WHILE you are being stomped on....</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">when things come at you from NO-WHERE - and take you DOWN</span><br />
....hard.... </div>
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YOU are also leaving <b>YOUR MARK</b>.</div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">YOU have BOOTS of your own, baby.</span></i></b></div>
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your integrity.</div>
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your persistence.</div>
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your endurance.</div>
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your love.</div>
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your wit.</div>
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your EVERYTHING....</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">BIG HUGE BOOTS.</span></div>
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BIGGER than LIFE.</div>
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i promise.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">lace em' up.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">pull them on.</span></b><br />
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and don't let life get you down.</div>
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you are here to...</div>
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shine.</div>
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climb.<br />
higher and higher...</div>
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and emerge.<br />
consistently and persistently.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">BIGGER than you have EVER BEEN.</span></div>
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YOU choose your "BOOTS"</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">so..</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">CHOOSE BIG.</span><br />
&</div>
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fill em' up.<br />
with style.<br />
all your own.<br />
make YOUR mark.<br />
life belongs to YOU.<br />
bigger than ever.<br />
emerge.<br />
forget the prints others <b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">think</span></i></b> they can leave.<br />
make your own.<br />
THOSE are the ones that matter.<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8705323987536553560"><img src="http://sites.google.com/site/thismomentimages/images/AngelaSignature.png" /></a>Unity Stamp Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720856784613428243noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705323987536553560.post-53782485004787772322012-05-24T07:47:00.003-07:002012-05-24T07:47:40.498-07:00<br />
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- it is one of my favorites. ♥<br /><br />there are no accidents....<br /><br />IIF it's appeared on your life radar, this is why: to teach you that DREAMS come true; to reveal that you have the power to FIX what's BROKEN and HEAL what HURTS; to catapult you beyond seeing with just your physical senses; and to lift the veils that have kept you from seeing that you're already the person you dreamed you'd become. ♥<br /><br />...and believe me, that was one heck of a dream.<br /><br />{my goodness i love this.}</div>
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<br /></div>Unity Stamp Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720856784613428243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705323987536553560.post-44589971267217312312012-04-25T16:06:00.001-07:002012-04-25T16:06:26.538-07:00nothing wonderful in particular.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><i><b>exactly....</b></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><i><b>i could not have said it better myself {thanks, andy}</b></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you’re not going to be very happy. </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.</span></blockquote>
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<a href=""><img src="http://sites.google.com/site/thismomentimages/images/AngelaSignature.png" /></a></div>Unity Stamp Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720856784613428243noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705323987536553560.post-41121922928524928302012-04-16T20:34:00.007-07:002012-04-17T05:51:30.118-07:00heart to heart kind of love.<div style="text-align: center;">today i watched my friend say farewell to her mama.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">with love.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">i watched her brave little self walk right up to the front of the church...</div><div style="text-align: center;">{after she sweetly removed her heels to maintain position}</div><div style="text-align: center;">and express out loud the love that existed for her mother.</div><div style="text-align: center;">she focused on the places</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">l</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">ove IS. and where love WAS. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">she encouraged us all to love.</div><div style="text-align: center;">heart to heart.</div><div style="text-align: center;">just love.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">today.</div><div style="text-align: center;">the love.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">it is all that mattered.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">she said it. </div><div style="text-align: center;">she meant it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">she felt it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">it was so obvious.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">so beautiful.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">my heart over-flowed. </div><div style="text-align: center;">with LOVE.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">as she spoke. and others spoke. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">it clearly was out of love.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">not one person in that church would disagree.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> her mama is heaven bound - and through all the challenges and stumbles that existed....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">love existed and will forever exist.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">regardless.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">today was influential to my soul...and made me think deep. </div><div style="text-align: center;">{surprise, surprise, right? }</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">love. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">have i ever mentioned how much i LOVE love? </div><div style="text-align: center;">i do.</div><div style="text-align: center;">today served as a HUGE reminder of that.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">i reference....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">that deep down, non-"convenient", KIND OF LOVE.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">the love you feel so intense and pure that it penetrates into the abyss of the SOUL.</div><div style="text-align: center;">it persists.</div><div style="text-align: center;">through every single obstruction and challenge.</div><div style="text-align: center;">it is SO inconvenient, yet convenient.<br />
it can be so fulfilling, yet so hurtful.<br />
it can be so challenging, yet so easy.<br />
LOVE is SO WORTH IT.</div><div style="text-align: center;">'cause TYPICALLY it runs so VERY deep.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">deep.</div><div style="text-align: center;">deep.</div><div style="text-align: center;">deep.</div><div style="text-align: center;">down.</div><div style="text-align: center;">sometimes SO DEEP it hides, and then emerges at JUST the right time.</div><div style="text-align: center;">'cause it was always there to begin with.<br />
kinda just meant to be.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">THAT kind of LOVE makes you feel as though <b><i>you know like you know</i></b>.....</div><div style="text-align: center;">you have been connected FOREVER and EVER.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>and always will be.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">doesn't matter WHO you feel this love for...</div><div style="text-align: center;">your parents.</div><div style="text-align: center;">your babies.</div><div style="text-align: center;">your friends.</div><div style="text-align: center;">the people you choose to have life altering experiences with.<br />
your family.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">love is love.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">that is what i think.</div><div style="text-align: center;">simple as that.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">each SOUL that makes a mark on your life.</div><div style="text-align: center;">LOVE them.</div><div style="text-align: center;">LOVE them outloud. LOVE them silently.</div><div style="text-align: center;">LOVE them with gratitude.<br />
just send it out there with every FIBER of your being.<br />
no fear.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">no matter how that LOVE ends up.<br />
it is worth it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">because any source of LOVE at all is something to treasure.</div><div style="text-align: center;">it all stems in a place of pureness.<br />
it has purpose.<br />
heaven sent.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">remember.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> the WAY you love someone can change.</div><div style="text-align: center;">as you drift <b>away </b>from one another or <b>closer </b>to one another.</div><div style="text-align: center;">it can change daily...sometimes HOURLY.</div><div style="text-align: center;">HA!</div><div style="text-align: center;">but if is was ever LOVE to begin with.</div><div style="text-align: center;">it will <b>last for always - on some level.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">love can fade.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> or even become a little lost.<br />
it can SEEM as though you may NEVER find your way back to certain people you love....</div><div style="text-align: center;">but....</div><div style="text-align: center;">regardless of distance.</div><div style="text-align: center;">regardless of status.</div><div style="text-align: center;">regardless of circumstance.</div><div style="text-align: center;">regardless of ANYTHING.</div><div style="text-align: center;">on some level.</div><div style="text-align: center;">however faint.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">true deep down simple love remains.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">heart to heart.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">{as sara reminded us} </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">non-"convenient".</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">no expectation.</span><br />
The kind of love that just resigns to </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">accept you as you are...regardless.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>the best kind ever.</i></b><br />
<b><i>Completely God - GIVEN. </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">that kind of love. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">it sticks.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">i love THAT - so very much.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">xoxo,</div><div style="text-align: center;">ang.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8705323987536553560&postID=4112192292852492830"><img src="http://sites.google.com/site/thismomentimages/images/AngelaSignature.png" /></a>Unity Stamp Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720856784613428243noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705323987536553560.post-40286927217450656152012-04-12T22:19:00.006-07:002012-04-12T23:25:25.511-07:00another "moment" - and then another. and maybe one more.<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">sometimes i get stuck on things.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>my favorites...such as....</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
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butterflies. </div><div style="text-align: center;">angels.</div><div style="text-align: center;">magic.</div><div style="text-align: center;">love.</div><div style="text-align: center;">peace.</div><div style="text-align: center;">energy.</div><div style="text-align: center;">spirituality.</div><div style="text-align: center;">following my heart.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">sappy stuff, right?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">however - the most intriguing thing in my life...are my "moments".</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">CREATE THIS MOMENT.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">{my self proclaimed blog title}</div><div style="text-align: center;">where did that come from?</div><div style="text-align: center;">i have no idea.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i don't know.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">but it was MEANT to mean something to me, cause i just CAN'T move beyond the wonder of each moment. </div><div style="text-align: center;"> each one. </div><div style="text-align: center;">and the IMPACT they make. </div><div style="text-align: center;"> the way they come full circle.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> the essence they hold to carry us through and TO the next NECESSARY MOMENT.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> THIS i know for SURE.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">MOMENTS are ALL we really have.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">and i have FINALLY started to treasure them.</div><div style="text-align: center;">good. bad. pain. joy.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">all of it. </div><div style="text-align: center;">embraced.<br />
endured.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i have started pressing the "PAUSE" button.</div><div style="text-align: center;">live that. </div><div style="text-align: center;">love that.</div><div style="text-align: center;">hear that.</div><div style="text-align: center;">know that.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">FEEL that.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">it <b><i>IS POSSIBLE</i></b> you know.</div><div style="text-align: center;">to pause. </div><div style="text-align: center;">to let it ALL SINK IN.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">i remember the MOMENT my oldest son was born.</div><div style="text-align: center;">the VERY MOMENT i first laid eyes on him.</div><div style="text-align: center;">single little mama.</div><div style="text-align: center;">just 19.</div><div style="text-align: center;">lost.</div><div style="text-align: center;">yet secure.<br />
hurt & alone.<br />
yet SO VERY STRONG.</div><div style="text-align: center;">all over the place.<br />
yet FOCUSED.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i can CLOSE MY EYES and take myself RIGHT THERE.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">that moment.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>and it is ALL MINE.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">recorded in my heart.</div><div style="text-align: center;">forever.</div><div style="text-align: center;">every detail.<br />
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in ONE MOMENT life came FULL CIRCLE.<br />
LOVE took on a NEW MEANING.<br />
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i became part of him.<br />
he part of me.</div><div style="text-align: center;">MY moment.<br />
OUR moment.<br />
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moments significant.<br />
or not so significant.<br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">change us.</span></b><br />
without warning.<br />
THAT is a beautiful thing.<br />
THAT is a tragic thing.<br />
THAT is life.<br />
moment by moment.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">confusing, life altering, frustrating, endured.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">moments. </div><div style="text-align: center;">they can ruin you. </div><div style="text-align: center;">they can MAKE you.</div><div style="text-align: center;">they can take your heart and set it in a holding place.</div><div style="text-align: center;">or</div><div style="text-align: center;">they can set your heart FREE to bigger and better things.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">it is all up to you. always.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">tonight.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i had several "moments"</div><div style="text-align: center;">all BEAUTIFUL.</div><div style="text-align: center;">and i STOPPED.</div><div style="text-align: center;">smiled.</div><div style="text-align: center;">and let myself "have" them.<br />
for the FIRST time ever.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>'cause here is a TRUE STORY.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">no matter WHERE i have been in my life.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i have never felt "arrived" - NOT EVER.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i am constantly trying to live down all the mistakes i have made.</div><div style="text-align: center;">making up for my inconsistency.</div><div style="text-align: center;">my lack of detail.</div><div style="text-align: center;">my simple nature.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">for lack of better words - in essence - i have never stopped the urgency to "prove myself".</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">i don't know WHERE that comes from - it is just me, i guess.</div><div style="text-align: center;">me against me.</div><div style="text-align: center;">so dumb.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">i am kinda tired of being against me.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">so TONIGHT...my moments...</div><div style="text-align: center;">they elevated me.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i ALLOWED myself to feel happy.</div><div style="text-align: center;">to feel the joy of others and let that take me to a place of contentment.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">you should do that, too.</div><div style="text-align: center;">take a moment to "arrive" in simple non-arrogance.</div><div style="text-align: center;">just arrival.</div><div style="text-align: center;">'cause you have and all it takes is a moment of appreciation.</div><div style="text-align: center;">for where you have been, where you ARE and where you are GOING.</div><div style="text-align: center;">it's alright.</div><div style="text-align: center;">you CAN FEEL GOOD.</div><div style="text-align: center;">it is allowed.</div><div style="text-align: center;">and better yet - it is EXPECTED.</div><div style="text-align: center;">and it is ALL YOURS.</div><div style="text-align: center;">be proud. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">we all have moments we want to remember.</div><div style="text-align: center;">we chose to forget.</div><div style="text-align: center;">we can't let go of.</div><div style="text-align: center;">and we hope will NEVER HAPPEN.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">it is the art of being human.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">my hope for YOU.</div><div style="text-align: center;">is that in THIS MOMENT...you are at peace. </div><div style="text-align: center;">you have love in your life.</div><div style="text-align: center;">...and you LOOK FORWARD to embracing each and every experience that will follow.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">when can you tell a story. your story.</div><div style="text-align: center;">in full....WITHOUT affecting {effecting?} whichever....another person?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">there is YOU. and there are "characters"</div><div style="text-align: center;">in EVERYONES novel.</div><div style="text-align: center;">THEY are what makes the story interesting.</div><div style="text-align: center;">the dynamics more intense<br />
our stories evolve around the individuals involved in our lives.<br />
those just passing through.<br />
those that remain by your side for a lifetime.<br />
and everyone in between.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">realistically.</div><div style="text-align: center;">our "people" MAKE our story.</div><div style="text-align: center;">they INTERTWINE.<br />
nestle deep into our hearts.<br />
become part of our souls.<br />
hold the pen and paper.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">so my question is this....</div><div style="text-align: center;">WHEN can you REALLY share this brilliant novel - and all the chapters within it<br />
WHOLE-HEARTEDLY<br />
without involving our soul dwellers? :)<br />
{for lack of a better word}<br />
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never.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">we all have a million stories....</div><div style="text-align: center;">{make that a million and ONE..}<br />
and they involve others,<br />
always.<br />
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personally....</div><div style="text-align: center;">EVERY. SINGLE. TIME....i wanna share - i stop.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i ponder.</div><div style="text-align: center;">and most often, i decide to stay silent. safe. "appropriate". & accepted. protective.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">why?</div><div style="text-align: center;">'cause "THE STORY"<br />
the EXPERIENCE.<br />
MY LIFE - it is not really ALL MINE.</div><div style="text-align: center;">it involves OTHERS - and their experience, their weakness, their strength, their conviction, beliefs, stories.</div><div style="text-align: center;">NOT JUST MINE</div><div style="text-align: center;">OUR STORIES - are not COMPLETELY our OWN.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">our lives...<br />
brilliant, un-edited, real.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">one experience after the other. </div><div style="text-align: center;">that make or break us.</div><div style="text-align: center;">and either way - we move on.</div><div style="text-align: center;">stronger, wiser...and raw.</div><div style="text-align: center;">ready.</div><div style="text-align: center;">just WAITING for the next moment - next CHAPTER - that is willing and able to change us even more into the people that we are meant to be.</div><div style="text-align: center;">YET.</div><div style="text-align: center;">every. single time - we share our chapters - we pull SOMEBODY out on the carpet.</div><div style="text-align: center;">if i have a "chapter" with my marriage.</div><div style="text-align: center;">CHRIS is a sitting duck.</div><div style="text-align: center;">so i hesitate.</div><div style="text-align: center;">if i have a "chapter" with an employee.</div><div style="text-align: center;">SITTING DUCK #2.</div><div style="text-align: center;">if i have a "chapter" with a child....</div><div style="text-align: center;">yet another decoy - sits still in the water....</div><div style="text-align: center;">friends - NEVER would i tarnish THAT sanctity, either.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">so.....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">we ponder.</div><div style="text-align: center;">and STOP.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">silence.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">no story telling, today.<br />
saving that chapter for a later date....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">'cause it is...</div><div style="text-align: center;">NOT just our STORY we are sharing...<br />
always - it involves others.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">ya know?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">so often times we just don't tell.</div><div style="text-align: center;">we don't talk.</div><div style="text-align: center;">we look down. </div><div style="text-align: center;">and</div><div style="text-align: center;">our stories stay locked up inside of us.</div><div style="text-align: center;">SCREAMING.</div><div style="text-align: center;">yet so VERY silent.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">when do we get to OWN our stories? </div><div style="text-align: center;">maybe now...maybe never.</div><div style="text-align: center;">so potentially - in the end - our stories OWN US.</div><div style="text-align: center;">un-told.</div><div style="text-align: center;">still lying dormant in our hearts.</div><div style="text-align: center;">filled with passion.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">we need to tell it somehow.</div><div style="text-align: center;">in some way.</div><div style="text-align: center;">art? </div><div style="text-align: center;">abstract, cryptic - writing?</div><div style="text-align: center;">a close friend with mutual experiences?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
reality is...<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">YOU have a right to YOUR part in YOUR STORY.</div><div style="text-align: center;">that IS yours - so carefully tell it the best you can....the way you know best.</div><div style="text-align: center;">with grace.<br />
with heart.<br />
with compassion.<br />
with soul. </div><div style="text-align: center;">....and most importantly - with a hint of protection - for those you LOVE.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> because...</div><div style="text-align: center;">after all - the "love" chapters</div><div style="text-align: center;">of any sort - </div><div style="text-align: center;">THOSE are the best.</div><div style="text-align: center;">hands down.</div><div style="text-align: center;">on every level. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">one day.</div><div style="text-align: center;">my line of laundry will hang.<br />
my part will be told.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">with colors that shine....off set by the "darks" that soaked up all the warmth.<br />
it is a must.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">one of my beautiful friends repeatedly reminded me this evening how DULL the JOY would be without the heartache.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">how BORING our stories are without our precious "characters"?<br />
friends, family, people....angels of sorts....<br />
to challenge us.<br />
to offer us insight.<br />
to tear our hearts apart....or better yet - MEND THEM back together.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">so....we should celebrate - each and every CHARACTER in our lives.<br />
each and every chapter.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">those that have sparkled and helped US sparkle - and ALSO those that are a little on the dingy side....<br />
clearly a thank you is in order to each and every person<br />
<br />
no matter what happened.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">brace yourselves...</div><div style="text-align: center;">for one day.</div><div style="text-align: center;">chapters will reveal themselves, one by one.<br />
stories will be told.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">'cause in the end - it IS OURS.<br />
every part of it.<br />
fall in love with it.<br />
a novel unwinding.<br />
consistently.<br />
perfectly.<br />
life.<br />
my life, my story....<br />
what is yours?<br />
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a "moment."<br />
we have all had them.<br />
you know the ones....<br />
they change you - EVERYTHING about you.<br />
forever and ever.<br />
without warning.<br />
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i can think of several "moments" - that altered my very being.<br />
i am grateful for them.<br />
i resent them.<br />
i love them.<br />
i hate them.<br />
i cry. i laugh. i learn.<br />
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once upon a time - i read...<br />
somewhere, one of my "loo, loo" books...<br />
that our very souls rest in heaven....<br />
just wanting, yearning, needing....more than anything to experience the "moment"....<br />
this life.<br />
again.<br />
and the DEPTH of the emotion that goes with it<br />
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i LOVE to believe this....<br />
'cause i love the idea that...perhaps...<br />
at some point over and over again.<br />
our souls...<br />
sit in perfection. paradise. just so much WANTING....<br />
to be HERE.<br />
life.<br />
yearning.<br />
for the laughter.<br />
for the pain.<br />
for the joy.<br />
the LOVE.<br />
for the sadness.<br />
for the "moment"<br />
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IF it is true....<br />
i guess. - i GET it, with all my heart.<br />
my soul would want this.<br />
what i have. what YOU have.<br />
over and over again....<br />
oddly enough.<br />
wouldn't YOURS?<br />
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i LOVE my "...moments".<br />
all of them.<br />
good, horrible and otherwise.<br />
{and i assure you - we have all had our even share}<br />
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so next time.<br />
that shocking, life altering...tragic...exhilarating...heart breaking...crazy...never before<br />
"moment"<br />
comes around.<br />
stop.<br />
feel.<br />
learn.<br />
endure.<br />
accept.<br />
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'cause it is YOURS.<br />
wholeheartedly.<br />
100%.<br />
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embrace it.<br />
with ALL that you are, all that you have been, and all that you WILL be.<br />
'cause THOSE moments define you.<br />
they alter you.<br />
they put you in the moment of "becoming"<br />
YOU.<br />
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and once again i will say....<br />
THAT is a beautiful thing.<br />
so. VERY. beautiful.<br />
no matter what.<br />
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xoxo,<br />
ang.<br />
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</h2><div class="postBody" style="color: #777777; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div style="text-align: center;">so. at times i feel this...<b>stir</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">way down deep</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">inside my soul.<br />
God given? Sent by my Angels, perhaps?<br />
- or maybe it is a whisper from those that i LOVE far beyond this world.<br />
all of the above, maybe? <br />
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i like to think so. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">typically, i let myself FEEL it and then just SAY it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>{i hesitate, but put it out there just the same}</b><br />
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</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">it has been set upon my heart, for a reason.right?</div><div style="text-align: center;">tonight, that happened....... i really kind of love it when that happens.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">so this is "the result"</div><div style="text-align: center;">------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"....the moment you feel someone should THINK like you THINK, BELIEVE what you BELIEVE, hold TRUE what you hold TRUE, is the moment you have lost your way....your path is for YOU to follow - and at the end is a great big gathering of HEARTS with their OWN story to tell." ♥ ♥ </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">♥</span></b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">our OWN story.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">yours. mine. theirs.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">individually filled with unique minutes of our lives. experiences we each have....</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"> with our OWN clear perspective and understanding.</span><br />
these moments paired with a spiritual presence i like to refer to as:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">our truths - our "faith."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">MY faith doesn't fit into a nice little box.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">personally, i don't think it should.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">it is everywhere & all over the place.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>i never was one to be told what to do or believe.</i><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am consistently filled with beautiful questions, doubt, assurances, truths, security, and insecurity, love, life.</div><div style="text-align: center;">we all need to SEARCH for our OWN truth.</div><div style="text-align: center;">for a lifetime.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">what stirs YOUR soul?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">whatever it is.<br />
let your heart - find hope there.</div><div style="text-align: center;">find love there.</div><div style="text-align: center;">find peace.</div><div style="text-align: center;">isn't that what matters?</div><div style="text-align: center;">....to know like you know that you are led...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">by love.by hope.by trust.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
"faith"<br />
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through this you will find your comfort.<br />
pure and simple peace.<br />
deep down.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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{pause.}</div><div style="text-align: center;">feel it. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">it's yours</span>.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">so next time you are frustrated with the expectations of life, or people, or living.</div><div style="text-align: center;">just remember to hold on to YOUR truth.<br />
your faith.<br />
your peace.<br />
your "you." </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">own it.live it.feel it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">whatever it is.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">no expectations.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">no requirements.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">you have been blessed<br />
from the heavens<br />
with your heart.<br />
individually and unique<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">no mistakes. perfect as is.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">it is so beautiful.</div><div style="text-align: center;">so right.</div><div style="text-align: center;">no matter what anyone else thinks.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">please, just do the very best you can.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">take comfort.<br />
and know like you know that - 100% - </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">you are loved. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">for everything you have been,</span></i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">are </span></i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">and will be.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;">no. matter. what.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">faith, hope, love, my friends.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">defined by your truth.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">hold onto it loosely. cause it will twist and change, and grow....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>but hold on just the same.</i><br />
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</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">it sounds superficial, once said over and over again...<br />
however in reality....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">it is the most <b>OFFICIAL</b> thing you have.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">it survives everything, even life itself.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">guaranteed.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">xoxo, in faith.ang.</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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tonight.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i can't sleep. </div><div style="text-align: center;">my brain is racing with so many thoughts.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i keep running though my day, my life, my everything.</div><div style="text-align: center;">do you do that?</div><div style="text-align: center;">life's "expectations" get so overwhelming it seems as though just breathing is a task?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">that is the moment i am in right now. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">i keep thinking about the what if's, the should be's, the could have's</div><div style="text-align: center;">....those thoughts that battle your inner peace.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">specifically a few things are bugging me about ME today.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">one being the fact i yelled at my kids. </div><div style="text-align: center;">i NEVER yell. ever. today i did. </div><div style="text-align: center;">for something SO TRIVIAL.</div><div style="text-align: center;">it was so dumb.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">then....i got in the car - went to my social event - got out of the car and walked RIGHT by someone i knew, and should have had the courtesy to say hello to.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> i didn't.</div><div style="text-align: center;">{i was a snot like that today. ugh}</div><div style="text-align: center;">this chick {being me} - was too caught up in processing the SHOUTING i had just done on the home front...i was all out of whack.</div><div style="text-align: center;">bobble headed. </div><div style="text-align: center;">in a fog. </div><div style="text-align: center;"> then.</div><div style="text-align: center;">as i whispered my confession of my WICKED MAMA MOMENT tale to one of my friends...</div><div style="text-align: center;">i was shot a "LOOK" from someone that surely took the whispering out of context.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i guess when you are in public whispering is taboo. </div><div style="text-align: center;">quickly it is assumed as gossip. </div><div style="text-align: center;">stupid me. </div><div style="text-align: center;">forgot about that.</div><div style="text-align: center;">again.</div><div style="text-align: center;">will i NEVER LEARN?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">so these things linger in my brain.</div><div style="text-align: center;">...and yes...they will keep me up ALL night, as i combine them with every OTHER "mistake"/character flaw that i posses and have made in the last 100 years. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>please tell me you do that.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">i have to beat it to a pulp....and analyze all the ripple effects ONE action makes....on lives....sometimes, thinking about that is so overwhelming.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">why in the world do i care SO MUCH?</div><div style="text-align: center;">i need to just be one of those people that let's it ROLL off her back.</div><div style="text-align: center;">but no MATTER what...i can NEVER do that.</div><div style="text-align: center;">....as i continue to bury my head into the pillow WISHING that i could disappear for perhaps just 24 hours....</div><div style="text-align: center;">i will say this.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">the next time...someone yells, or walks by you, or whispers to her girlfriend...most likely it has nothing to do with you.</div><div style="text-align: center;">take it with a grain of salt.</div><div style="text-align: center;">and love them.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">life is crazy.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">i WISH we all had signs on our heads giving people updated information.</div><div style="text-align: center;">the kind that is REALLY none of their business, but if they KNEW they would see things so much more clearly.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">today mine would have read.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>this woman is not thinking straight. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>....her smile is fake.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>not every day, but for today</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>she is out of character.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>and simply isn't at her best.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>don't be offended.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>just smile back, pretty please.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
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<i><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">some dear, sweet friends said to me today how tired they are of the statement </div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">it is what it is. </span></b></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">they think we should say...</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">it is what it SHALL be.</span></b></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">what WE make it.</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">how we SEE it.</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">and go from there.</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">they are right.</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">and here i am making it more than what it REALLY is.</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">my kids still love me...the person i walked by probably didn't really care, and the misinterpreted whispering is just THAT...misinterpreted. ha!</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">so i shall make it better...by letting go. letting God....</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">and going to sleep.</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">knowing that...<i></i></div><i><div style="display: inline !important; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">tomorrow.</div></i><br />
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">i need to be more<i> legit</i> with this smile of mine.</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">thank GOODNESS for a NEW DAY!</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">goodnight.</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">{well, really good morning...but whatever. :)}</div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="">it is a BEAUTIFUL Saturday and my heart is in a {HAPPY} place. </a></div><div style="text-align: center;">So excited to see what this day brings.</div><div style="text-align: center;">my DEEP DOWN happy has surfaced today!</div><div style="text-align: center;">HOORAY! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">happy. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">ecstatic.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>gleeful.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">joyous.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">blissful.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">chipper.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>merry.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">simple words. right?<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">you would think it would be a simple place to find in our lives. </div><div style="text-align: center;">that place of "happiness".</div><div style="text-align: center;">i guess that depends...on so many different things.</div><div style="text-align: center;">so many.</div><div style="text-align: center;">it depends on our story.</div><div style="text-align: center;">our experiences.</div><div style="text-align: center;">our hurts and our joys.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and the distance between the two.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">personally....just like you - </div><div style="text-align: center;">i want to be happy. </div><div style="text-align: center;">consistently.</div><div style="text-align: center;">constantly.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>and every moment in between.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">if given the choice, i would choose happy.</div><div style="text-align: center;">hands down - every single time. </div><div style="text-align: center;">we all would.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">all your "self help" people will tell you to do just that.</div><div style="text-align: center;">simply to "choose happiness".</div><div style="text-align: center;">your choice. your decision.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i 50% agree with that philosophy.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i know the choice is ours.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i get that.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">i love that.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">typically - </div><div style="text-align: center;">even if a big white stinkin' elephant is stepping right on my little toe - i smile.</div><div style="text-align: center;">why not, right?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">however, i have found in simply CHOOSING happiness, in CHOOSING to paste that smile on your face, <i><b>in CHOOSING to stitch your broken heart with 5 stitches when it requires 30 stitches</b> </i>- you are doing yourself an injustice. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">you can't fake happy</span></b>.</div><div style="text-align: center;">'cause in the end...."happy" will start to ache, tear you apart, simply hurt.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>happy will become just a word.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">ya know?</div><div style="text-align: center;">why would we RUIN a perfectly good thing by being fake?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">why fake happy? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">dumb.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">so...pretty much - </div><div style="text-align: center;">i am over it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">this "JUST BE HAPPY" stuff. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">the truth is never all that easy when it comes to heart ache.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;">facing all the "ouch" - when all you want to do is forget- it hurts.</div><div style="text-align: center;">let's lay it on the line.</div><div style="text-align: center;">it would be easier walking away from all the pain.</div><div style="text-align: center;">it would be easier convincing yourself that you are strong, brave and "happy".<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">but sometimes...your "happy" is worth getting through, feeling and standing up for.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">2 years ago. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">my heart began to shatter.</div><div style="text-align: center;">one "incident" after another.</div><div style="text-align: center;">months and months and MONTHS of "stuff" </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
scenarios. <b><i>one after another</i></b>. </div><div style="text-align: center;">it broke, i am sure of it, i FELT it - this open heart of mine. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>into a million and one pieces.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">i was wide open. trusting. stumbling. reaching out.</div><div style="text-align: center;">...yet - just a little stupid, i guess. </div><div style="text-align: center;">i won't go into detail.<br />
after all the heartache. the smile remained...</div><div style="text-align: center;">...but "happy" simply hurt.</div><div style="text-align: center;">it wasn't real anymore.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">today.</div><div style="text-align: center;">as the hurt continues to heal - </div><div style="text-align: center;">i wrote this to a friend - regarding what i have learned....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">my heart goes out to ANYONE who is struggling with hurt so deep-yet they still put on a smile, because they "have to". i never imagined when i heard the word </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">heartbreak</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> that it would one day become so <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">literal</span></b> in MY OWN life. i FELT my heart break SO MUCH in the last two years for so many different reasons. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">-</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">however i can say this, </span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">when i am HAPPY - i am HAPPY</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> <b>because it has to get</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 28px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> by all the hurt first.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 28px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">i guess my happiness is rooted "deeper" now.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 28px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 28px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">a place way down inside and to</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 40px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> reach that place, means it is simply felt on a much deeper level</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 40px;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 118px;"></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">i wrote that email and i realized it was a blog post in the making. </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>so you have pain....grow with it.</b><br />
your heart has been broken once, or twice, or 3 million times. </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">each time the hurt comes - happiness WILL SINK a little deeper.<br />
<i>you can't prevent that.</i><br />
eventually - happy lies UNDER all the heartache.<br />
buries itself.<br />
<i>becomes a wee bit elusive.</i></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">eventually - it becomes a little harder to just "choose" happy.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">but YOUR happiness is still there just the same. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> ready to take the journey back to your reality.</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">be grateful for that.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">because when "happy" surfaces it comes from within a place in your soul SO DEEP<br />
...you KNOW like you KNOW like you KNOW - it is real.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">nothing worth having OR FEELING is easy.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">so embrace the heart ache my lovely friends. </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">heartache = heartFELT happy.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">it doesn't come easy, and you wouldn't WANT it to anyway.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">TRUE "happy" is not for the <b><i>faint </i></b>of heart.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">it is for those that<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> HAVE a heart</span></b> - <i>a heart that is willing to break in order to be stitched up that much stronger.</i></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">elusive as happy may be, know it IS there.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">....and when you feel it...take a deep breath.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">YOU DESERVE happy</span>. </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">YOU have earned it.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">no matter what.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">-------------------------</div></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8705323987536553560"><img src="http://sites.google.com/site/thismomentimages/images/AngelaSignature.png" /></a></div>Unity Stamp Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720856784613428243noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705323987536553560.post-70999870477087199742011-06-19T19:01:00.000-07:002011-06-19T19:01:02.433-07:00....wading out into the deep...WINGS OF HOPE Blog Post...<a href=""></a><br />
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</h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="color: #46330b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.25em; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">...wading out into the deep.</h3><div class="post-header" style="color: #453409; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7935093179904358745" style="color: #453409; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;">first thing on my mind this morning was this blog post. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">the questions at hand: </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">What does WINGS OF HOPE mean to me. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Why does my journey on this earth now include WINGS?</div><div style="text-align: center;">8 hours later, i am still pondering the content of my heart - and how deep i want to go with that answer. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i keep having this visual...</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">me.<i> oceanside</i>. standing alone on the beach.</div><div style="text-align: center;">the breeze on my skin, the smell of the air.....in front of me is a breathtaking sight of blue. </div><div style="text-align: center;">an ocean so beautiful. so vast. so deep. <b><i>and so filled with unknown.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">our souls are like this. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>with this blog post...</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">i can venture in.<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> ankle deep</span></b></i> and stay very comfortable.</div><div style="text-align: center;">or i can decide to journey into the depths of my ocean - taking that risk of becoming vulnerable.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i am weighing the value of both at this very moment. </div><div style="text-align: center;">do i give you the surface stuff - or journey into the abyss of the "unknown"?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">WINGS.</div><div style="text-align: center;">why?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">so many reasons.....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><b>WINGS: Reason #1</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">2011 started with heartbreak. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">on so many different levels.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">there was sweet, surprising, heartfelt moments - bringing in the new year...</div><div style="text-align: center;">friends.laughter.<i><b> love. </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;">happy.</div><div style="text-align: center;">shortly followed by unexplainable heart ache and grief.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> tragic loss.</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> i stood by -feeling the energy of sadness fill the spaces of so many lives.</div><div style="text-align: center;">hearts of friends that i LOVE so very dearly - being ripped apart. </div><div style="text-align: center;">loss. </div><div style="text-align: center;">hearts. broken.</div><div style="text-align: center;">pain everywhere.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i knew there would be an opportunity to help....i just didn't know what to do at that time. </div><div style="text-align: center;">nobody did or ever does know what exactly they can do when they watch people they love go through this kind of pain.</div><div style="text-align: center;">you want to offer them peace. </div><div style="text-align: center;">LOVE does that.</div><div style="text-align: center;">HOPE does that.</div><div style="text-align: center;">the time just has to be right.</div><div style="text-align: center;">so you just be. </div><div style="text-align: center;">like you always have been.</div><div style="text-align: center;">and pray. </div><div style="text-align: center;">hard.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">continued.... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><b>WINGS: Reason #2</b></span><br />
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early 2011...<br />
personal struggle sets in.</div><div style="text-align: center;">to my surprise.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i started falling apart. </div><div style="text-align: center;">BAD TIMING, i know. </div><div style="text-align: center;">but who chooses this kind of thing? </div><div style="text-align: center;">... much of my pain - i had been successfully covering up.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i had guarded my heart for SO LONG.... and it all emerged. </div><div style="text-align: center;"> took me deep inside. </div><div style="text-align: center;">to the base of my being.</div><div style="text-align: center;">there i was.</div><div style="text-align: center;">me facing me.</div><div style="text-align: center;">vulnerable.</div><div style="text-align: center;">feeling SO MUCH SADNESS. </div><div style="text-align: center;">i didn't even know where it was coming from specifically.<br />
a lot of places, i guess.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i won't bore you with the details...</div><div style="text-align: center;">there was...</div><div style="text-align: center;"> unexpected "explosion of emotion" </div><div style="text-align: center;"> <b> it started to become very apparent to me - my heart - needed some serious repair. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;">i felt stuck.</div><div style="text-align: center;">torn. </div><div style="text-align: center;">consumed by lack of direction.</div><div style="text-align: center;">lost.</div><div style="text-align: center;">numb.</div><div style="text-align: center;">YOU know how it is. </div><div style="text-align: center;">that surprising moment when your act is up.</div><div style="text-align: center;">you have set aside one heart ache after the other for so long - and simply entered into survival mode.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">you don't allow yourself FEEL the pain.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> FEEL the loss.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> FEEL the hurt.</div><div style="text-align: center;">FEEL the disappointment.</div><div style="text-align: center;">FEEL the changes.</div><div style="text-align: center;">you don't allow anything negative...cover it up...move on...</div><div style="text-align: center;">put on a smile.</div><div style="text-align: center;">you just don't let them see you sad.</div><div style="text-align: center;">because...if you did....</div><div style="text-align: center;">it could be uncomfortable.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>we don't want any of that, do we? </i><br />
<i>i kept telling myself it would all go away. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;">so </div><div style="text-align: center;">VOILA!</div><div style="text-align: center;">shield of heart armor. </div><div style="text-align: center;">applied to heart.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> out of necessity.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>THEN...</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">one TELLING moment - you look in the mirror and break. </div><div style="text-align: center;">enough of the strength. enough positive. enough trying to forget. enough trying to remember. enough excuses. enough convincing everyone around you that you are alright. enough of the perfect. enough of the "big girl panties". enough blaming yourself. enough of ALL of it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">ouch.</div><div style="text-align: center;">more tears. </div><div style="text-align: center;">more sad.</div><div style="text-align: center;">more depression.</div><div style="text-align: center;">just holding on by a thread.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i wanted to escape.</div><div style="text-align: center;">just.</div><div style="text-align: center;">be.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> done.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i was consumed with feeling sad. </div><div style="text-align: center;">couldn't shake it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><b>Wings: Reason #3</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">i became so consumed with grief. </div><div style="text-align: center;">going through the motions.</div><div style="text-align: center;">life became numb.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">i was traveling in darkness.</div><div style="text-align: center;">day by day.</div><div style="text-align: center;">wondering if i could bring myself out. </div><div style="text-align: center;">thinking that<i><b> this time</b></i> perhaps, i could not.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i KNEW better.<br />
knowing that i SHOULD know better.... made me feel even more distant and elusive and "unreal"<br />
- i was so sad. </div><div style="text-align: center;">then....<br />
two choices.<br />
crumble completely or ask for help {which i REALLY stink at doing}</div><div style="text-align: center;">i opened up.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> reached out for help. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;">and INSTANTLY - without hesitation - i was surrounded with angels.</div><div style="text-align: center;">{aka: friends/family}</div><div style="text-align: center;">i felt hands reach into my <b>self consumed</b> darkness.</div><div style="text-align: center;">these angels reached outside their OWN pain and lifted me up.</div><div style="text-align: center;">giving me their wing of strength.</div><div style="text-align: center;">adding to my own strength that THEY knew i had. </div><div style="text-align: center;">it took time, and work, and persistence ...</div><div style="text-align: center;">slowly...</div><div style="text-align: center;">light emerged.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>my single wilted wing started to spread out in strength.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">HOPE was given back to me.</div><div style="text-align: center;">LIFE was once again becoming a place that i really wanted to be.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>when the light emerges LOVE & HOPE is so apparent.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>JUST those two things make EVERYTHING worthwhile.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>------------------------------</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>HOWEVER...some people don't emerge....</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">....and as my hope returned....others in this lifetime <i>lost</i> their HOPE.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">our community was struck with the loss of one beautiful soul after the other.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">we watched our community loom in shock.</div><div style="text-align: center;">we watched our children cry.</div><div style="text-align: center;">we watched wounds re-open.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">time to do something.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">time to reach into someone else's darkness.</div><div style="text-align: center;">time to use my WING to help another that is struggling - - just as my angels {aka: friends/family} had helped me. </div><div style="text-align: center;">HOPE. HEALING. LOVE.</div><div style="text-align: center;">necessary.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i can help.</div><div style="text-align: center;">i KNOW the darkness.</div><div style="text-align: center;">and</div><div style="text-align: center;">here is the beautiful thing...</div><div style="text-align: center;">i KNOW the light.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">SO......</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Why be part of WINGS OF HOPE?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b> here is "ankle" ocean depth answer......</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">simply. because i can.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">xoxo,</div><div style="text-align: center;">angela</div></div><br />
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<a href=""><img src="http://sites.google.com/site/thismomentimages/images/AngelaSignature.png" /></a>Unity Stamp Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720856784613428243noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705323987536553560.post-92150433570922210412011-01-15T10:58:00.000-08:002011-01-15T11:50:57.403-08:00it was my birthday....i've been thinking....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">shallow post....of random thoughts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">been thinking a lot lately about age.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">can't help it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">just am.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">being honest.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">age is so <b>stupid</b>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{i know my literary skills are stellar today}</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">why do we have to be "assigned" an age.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>who was the guy with the bright idea?</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>:)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">i think we should get to DECIDE what age we want to be and stay there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">don't you?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>time can keep going - it's a beautiful thing...</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>but "age" should stop.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">hey...anythings possible right?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">i would have never thought i would be a Sagittarius instead of a Capricorn either!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> what age would you be?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">honestly.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">i think....i am pretty sure - i would pick MY age.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">38.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">right here, right now.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{well ok, honestly, <b><i>maybe</i></b> i would pick 36 - i was much thinner. hee, hee}</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">here's my thoughts</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">i have just enough lines on my face to know i have had a million laughs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">i have just enough curve on my body to know i have given life.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">i have just enough emotion in my heart to know i have lived deep.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and it has all meant so very much.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">i have just enough.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">i really feel that way.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><b>so i think i will stay this age.</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">i officially have a story.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">things worth sharing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">i love that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the girl on the right - 20 years ago - is gone.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">i seriously look at that picture and wonder who she was.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it is as if she was an illusion.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">i wonder if i will feel that same way about "me" when i am 58 - 20 years from now?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">most likely - i will.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">which makes me very young right now.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{positive self talk}</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">seems like yesterday...yet it seems like an eternity ago.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">like one minute you are 17 - and the next you are turning 38?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">random thought - </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i>that means it has been 20 years since i had eyebrows <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">ONE INCH thick</span>, check those babies out! </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">ha!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">life </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">stands.</span></b> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">still.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">it is a mysterious thing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">all i know...</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">is if the next 20 years bless me the same way the first 20 have.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">....i am one lucky chick.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">conclusion:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">time is beautiful.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">i'll take it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">100%</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"age."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it's stupid.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and i will not be turning one year older ever again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8705323987536553560&postID=9215043357092221041"><img src="http://sites.google.com/site/thismomentimages/images/AngelaSignature.png" /></a>Unity Stamp Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720856784613428243noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705323987536553560.post-11281382842477406582010-12-20T20:28:00.000-08:002010-12-21T07:20:40.296-08:00heart. on. sleeve.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8705323987536553560&postID=1128138284247740658"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">heart. on. sleeve.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">no matter what. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">do you know people who wear pretty clothes like this?</div><div style="text-align: center;">i do.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">it is a rare beauty.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">women who ARE who they ARE.</div><div style="text-align: center;">and "heart. on. sleeve." CONFIDENT about it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">they share, confide and trust</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">not only for the growth of <i><b>themselves</b></i> but in an effort to learn from one another.<br />
help each other.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">i have consistent women in my life, just like this - who amaze me.<br />
lovely, stunning, amazing and loyal.<br />
...from head to SOUL.....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>with sweet little hearts on their sleeves....</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> together we can be..</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">confused. </div><div style="text-align: center;"> determined.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> irritated. </div><div style="text-align: center;">joyous.<br />
mixed up.</div><div style="text-align: center;">sad. </div><div style="text-align: center;">loving. </div><div style="text-align: center;">overwhelmed. </div><div style="text-align: center;">desperate.</div><div style="text-align: center;">sassy.<br />
imperfect. </div><div style="text-align: center;">silly.</div><div style="text-align: center;">secure.<br />
messy.</div><div style="text-align: center;">vulnerable.</div><div style="text-align: center;">intrigued.</div><div style="text-align: center;">lost.</div><div style="text-align: center;">found.</div><div style="text-align: center;">... AND SHOW ALL OF IT, and more ...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">anytime. all the time.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;">THAT is true beauty in "heart. on. sleeve." friendship.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">women who know EVERYTHING about you and love you just the same.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>women that never need to forgive...</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">because they never hold on to<i><u> anything</u></i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">long enough</span> to <i>even matter</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;">women who know for certain that life gets messy for EVERYONE, and JUDGEMENT is not an <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">option</span>.<br />
ever. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>no matter what.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> ...don't you EVER mistake "heart. on. sleeve" as weakness, or insecurity, or fake.</div><div style="text-align: center;">it just is what it is...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">out there</span>. </div><div style="text-align: center;">period. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>no apologies.</i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">but remember</span><br />
just because you are who you are...</div><div style="text-align: center;">rest assured. <br />
you will need to be tough, sweet girl.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">i have learned...from time to time... </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">you will be judged</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">people will assume you weak</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">fake</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">insecure</span><br />
they will go away<br />
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wondering why you were SO "heart.on.sleeve" with them.<br />
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they will think you are permanently confused, and lost<br />
they are mistaken.<br />
...because really YOU are brilliantly transparent and clear.</div><div style="text-align: center;">just open.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">it will hurt. a lot.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;">{try to get over it, quickly}</div><div style="text-align: center;"> please - please remember.</div><div style="text-align: center;">they are wrong.<br />
it is COMPLETELY</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">100% their loss. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">cause "heart. on. sleeve." - is as real as it gets... just sayin'. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">so...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">just keep putting that pretty heart upon your sleeve and KNOW without a doubt.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">you are you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">and THAT is all that matters.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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sometimes....<br />
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i wish i could be everything that everyone expects me to be.<br />
i wish i could be what I EXPECT me to be.<br />
i wish i could run away.<br />
i wish i could stay right where i am.<br />
i wish i had made different choices.<br />
i wish i knew exactly who i am.<br />
i wish i hadn't said what i said.<br />
i wish i was prettier.<br />
i wish i was younger. {not really, ok - i take that one back...HA!}<br />
i wish i was smarter.<br />
i wish i could give more.<br />
i wish i could love more.<br />
i wish i could think more deeply.<br />
i wish i could be light hearted.<br />
i wish i was skinnier.<br />
i wish i was more spiritual.<br />
i wish i was older.<br />
i wish i had what she has.<br />
i wish i hadn't opened my heart.<br />
i wish i could start over.<br />
i wish i was stronger.<br />
i wish i could escape.<br />
i wish i didn't feel those feelings.<br />
i wish i didn't wish for a thing more than i actually have.<br />
i wish.......so many things.<br />
...and often so opposite of one another.<br />
it's so complicated - when i know it COULD be so simple.<br />
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but guess what.<br />
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all the time....i know.....way deep down....that we are growing.....always have been....always will be.<br />
our wishes...make that happen.<br />
all the time....we know.....way deep down....we do our best....even if it doesn't seem so at the time.<br />
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i know. like i know. like i know - everything will be perfect. no matter what. no. matter. what.<br />
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it is just how it is.<br />
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faith.<br />
hope.<br />
love.<br />
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live by it.<br />
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always.<br />
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every stumble. every tear. every fear. every moment. perfection......in its own perfect way.<br />
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so my wish for YOU.....faith. hope. love. so that all YOUR wishes come true....just like mine will.<br />
AND a not so perfect life that is JUST PERFECT.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"the heart wants what it wants" </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">lisa hetrick one of my brilliant artists turned this sentiment in to me. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">thank.you. lisa.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">the heart wants what it wants.</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">think about it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">i wish i would have used this in a conversation i had this weekend with a friend.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">but. nope.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">instead of just summing it up in a short sweet sentence, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">i went on and on and on about a million things.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">trying to <b><i>explain</i></b>. trying to <b><i>express</i></b>....trying to <i><b>understand</b></i>...and tearing the situation apart with "reasoning"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">when really - there is no "reason" ...just<b><i> feeling</i></b>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">sometimes it is just in your heart. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">hearts feel. they don't reason.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">the heart wants what it wants.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">right, wrong or otherwise. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it happens. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">your heart is where your passion starts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">with a feeling. listen to it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">right away - cause no matter what...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">your heart wins.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">you can fight it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">shut it down.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">shut it out,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">ignore.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> but if it is deep inside your heart.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it will remain.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">no. matter. what.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">so next time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">as you you try to explain your feelings, your situation, your <b><i>dreams</i></b>, your actions....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">remember this sentiment.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">the heart wants what it wants.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and for that you don't have to make any excuses.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">no regrets.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it is what it is.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and there is a purpose for it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and really....in the end....after all is said and done....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">you can't change it anyway.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">you wouldn't want to.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">so go with it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">live it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">feel it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and know that....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">following your heart will always bring you to exactly where you are meant to be.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and again i can say...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">THAT is a beautiful thing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">don't you think?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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