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    #MondayMusings - Personal Development

    To Be A Wildflower #MondayMusings

    June 20, 2016

    In the last few days, I’ve been thinking about many things and as always I have my sounding board (a.k.a. my husband, José) to talk things over with. Discussing how I haven’t been able to learn to drive, he said something that hit home. To paraphrase, I want to do things and take risks, but don’t go the whole hog or give it my all. I realize that is absolutely true and it is a pattern. I have lots of ideas, creative ones at that, but don’t commit to them in a way that can see the idea completely true.…

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    #MondayMusings - Grieving and Grief Resources - Life and Inspiration

    Should Grief Make You Self Absorbed #MondayMusings

    June 6, 2016

    I’ve been wondering about this for a while now. Should grief make you self absorbed? Let me tell you of someone I knew. A young woman, a mother of two boys, one quite severely challenged, and with another child on the way, she suddenly found herself a widow. Still grieving with a baby on the way, she did have the support of her family and her husband’s but she was alone. A few years after her third son was born, came the devastating news that she had cancer. I met her when the cancer was in remission – graceful, smiling…

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    #MondayMusings - Life and Inspiration

    Lessons From The Day #MondayMusings

    May 30, 2016

    Last night I was chatting with a friend who was sharing her take on relationships and unconditional love . She was not really saying anything new, but what she said flowed from her experiences an deep personal conviction. Her painful experience had taught her a beautiful lesson. Once more, I realised how life is constantly seeking to teach us lessons. Sometimes, we don’t learn the lessons the first time so life keeps giving us more chances to learn.We were both talking about a mutual acquaintance, a basically a nice person (isn’t everyone?) who loses out on relationships because she tries…