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Add Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell to the list of Saints, in their case, saints of modern technology. I used to disdain the refrigerator and the shower as modern day luxuries unwarranted. Ha ha! They didn’t used to shower in Europe as we do in America and they didn’t always have refrigerators. I am…
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“Trouble Me” a song by Natalie Merchant, Ten Thousand Maniacs, back in the early ’90s. I played music loud in the car and at home because it seemed to quell Ian, an infant in trouble. Alex used to yell when I was pregnant and I feared for my baby. I tried to write a poem:…
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I wrote in my last post aboabout being “controlled by Christ.” It’s also about the fruit of the Spirit. One of them is a New Years Resolution this year: patience. And, I have added, gentleness. I still see my father when I see the bright white light of the sun at times. His mind used…
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I have been trying to profile myself morally. I mean, what kind of person am I? a long time ago in my MH and Christian walk, after listening to a spot on Catholic Christian radio in Florida, i identified that I wished to be a helper rather than the helped. I tried that out a…
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after I first started taking antipsychotic meds in the 1980s, I had a weird new way of making decisions, for instance picking a movie to watch. I just pictured the choices in my mind and saw the one I wanted to watch without a lot of grief. my favorite movie from this time period was…
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I am deemed a failure for adhering to my beliefs and experiences starting with an encounter with an alien at Springstone Hollow after my mothers death in 2020. (Or was it?) I am told that Sister Marie at St. Mary’s Kutztown deemed that such talk of aliens makes you unclean. I do not deem myself…
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I thought I heard a prompt in the news about a resurge of the pandemic. Well, anyway I have something to say about it. we all had time to sit back and think as friends and loved ones got sick and died; about some underlying issues it’s okay to breathe again. we were needy and…
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This just in. After all this time, I have heard that, just as I thought at the time, my mother really did fake her death and go into hiding. I saw her in my mind at a pub in Manhattan speaking vociferously about me with her sidekick, a woman somewhat younger. I have been hearing…
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I was so nervous about this new years and came up with a presumptuous resolution as I have had a bunch of good ones over the past 4 or 5 years. so the one I was going to do was really more a plan or a goal and I will certainly pursue it as such,…
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a stitch in time saves nine. those adages can be hard to understand. “A watch pot never boils” I finally realized that that is properly rendered “A watched pot never boils” lol. And the meaning is obvious. One quick stitch sewn in time saves a major rip you would have to sew up a month…
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Smoking is a naturally disestablishmentarian act. A smoker flouts the rules and buries the establishments. Jesus was disestablishmentarian. The Holy Spirit is a fire. antidisestablishmentarians are boring and dull, they hide their lights under a bushel and take down what is bold. Native Americans used smoking to make peace, and decisions and strategies. St. Therese…
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