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Flaming Hot, Flaming Out or Flaming Over the Long Term - Christofer French
We have all been bemused by those initial feelings, those in between states, and the longer term inner bewildering biochemical stages. And “Lust” has beguiled us all in various ways at various times in our lives. Using ourselves as neuroscientific experiments, we can all look back at... Submitted 18 days 9 hours ago.

Make Peace with It - - Jeanna Gabellini
I was right in the middle of watching American Idol and my stomach began cramping. I thought it must be a gassy tummy and assumed it’d go away shortly. I was wrong. I barely slept a wink that night because of the intense pain. I had a very important list of tasks for the business that... Submitted 3 days 10 hours ago.

Did You Forget Your Magic Wand? - - Jeanna Gabellini
People often poke fun at the thought of having a magic wand. I don’t think there’s anything funny about making your life hard. We each have a magic wand called intention . You have to clarify your request and then make the decision that it will be so. I’m one of millions... Submitted 10 days 16 hours ago.

Wacky Races - - Isaac Sarayiah
...I am sure those of us at (and beyond) a certain age :-) , will remember the sheer carnage depicted in the Hanna Barbera classic cartoon, “Wacky Races” and the devious antics of Dick Dastardly and Muttley. The villainy duo tried to overthrow the likes of the Ant Hill Mob and... Submitted 10 days 18 hours ago.

Judgment & Alignment: Business Lessons from the Court Room - - Jeanna Gabellini
I’ve always heard that jury duty in the U.S. is an interesting experience. Interesting in a good way. I thought I’d enjoy it, but I never wanted to do it since I’ve owned my own business. I have a very delicately balanced schedule between work and kids. If I unexpectedly had to... Submitted 17 days 6 hours ago.

Surrrendering My Soul To the Lender... - - Alessandro Monte
I always been unsure of how to go about this thing we call Faith, and felt totally inadequate to become a speaker about what I could not explain or show in my own walk what it is all about, but regardless of all the nays about it from others and even myself, my heart had a loud yes and Amen as an... Submitted 14 days 17 hours ago.

Accessing the Energy of Angels - Seeing Yourself in the Miraculous Drama - Christofer French
Sagittarius has just begun. To help us understand what is in store for us this month let us consider how Sagittarius energy manifests itself in the personality traits of someone born under its influence. When people begin to contemplate how energies from above influence we little stars on this... Submitted 71 days 20 hours ago.

Size Doesn’t Matter - Carol Hess
My birthday was perfect except for one thing. The lobster roll sucked. Now that may not seem like a big deal to you, but I can tell you it was a very big deal to me. Here’s why. I had been thinking about that lobster roll all week. Every time I thought about how old I was turning, I... Submitted 327 days 12 hours ago.

The Wrong Bus Syndrome - Wrong Driver, Wrong Direction, Wrong Mindset - Yangki Christine Akiteng
The "Wrong Bus Syndrome" is commonly associated with Wangari Maathai Wangari, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner. She used this analogy to draw attention to how too often we head in the wrong direction or travel on the wrong path, allow others (often people we perceive to have authority on a subject)... Submitted 2 years 194 days ago.

Why I Write - Ken McCreless
Greetings Fellow Travelers... To the dismay of just about every teacher that instructed me from elementary school through college, I have an insatiable need to know why. To me, why a person does something is as important, and sometimes more important, than what they are doing. So the quest began.... Submitted 3 years 286 days ago.

Fast Action - Strike While the Iron is Hot - Seize the Day - Christofer French
In an uncertain world, in which people observe the calamities of inaction, we have developed over the centuries common universal advisories: We will discuss these aphorisms and then make a dual observation that we should act more quickly and profoundly, and at the same time we should not be... Submitted 25 days 17 hours ago.

A Correction, A Reversal of Thought, an Apology, and a New Path - - Ken McCreless
Greetings Fellow Travelers … The Correction ... No, I don't think I'm always right- never have. I'm just not real big on being wrong! Still, there are many times—on a daily basis, actually-- when I find myself being roughed up by God's sandpaper working to polish me for His... Submitted 220 days 21 hours ago.

The Genie Gains his Genes, and then he Dons his Jeans! - Christofer French
The Genie Gains his Genes, and then he Dons His Jeans Deep in a strangely vast cave in the northern Canadian Rockies, three Mountaineers are returning with a local guide, a Canadian with Native American blood. One year ago, they had happened into the Cave and surprised a sleeping Creature... Submitted 226 days 18 hours ago.

Mentor and Mentee: Four Simple Analogies of a Mentoring Relationship - Mogama
The dictionary defines the noun "mentor" as "a wise and trusted counselor or teacher." The verb "mentor" means "to serve as a trusted counselor or teacher to (another person)." Due to the popularity of mentoring a relatively new word, "mentee", has entered the English lexicon. (My word... Submitted 234 days 20 hours ago.

God is Talking to Us - - Marijo Phelps
Nope, this isn’t some science fiction fantasy piece. It is about hearing the voice of God, the very God who created the universe and set those stars in place. It still boggles my mind that He would desire a relationship with us as individuals, but He really does. He has expressed this in... Submitted 268 days 18 hours ago.

The Days of Watching the Radio - - Donovan Baldwin
I was talking to a young friend of mine the other day. We had been talking about things from the past, and I'm afraid I began to do the "old guy" thing and tell him about a string of things from way before his time. I talked about the days before cell phones and HDTV. Heck, the days before TV... Submitted 1 year 94 days ago.

Thoughts on The Intrinsic Value of Precious Things - - Donovan Baldwin
I heard a discussion the other day about the value of gold, and it worked its way around to the intrinsic value of things in general. As usual, my mind took some of the info, played with it a while, and the following thoughts emerged. Food has one form of value because it can be "traded" to... Submitted 1 year 103 days ago.

Is It Just Me, or Are We Both Nuts? - - Donovan Baldwin
So, it was another Sunday, and, as usual, I am driving my mother to Mass. A lovely Fall day in Stone Mountain, driving through a pretty residential area. Lots of trees, lots of leaves, and lots of squirrels. A few yards ahead of the car, a squirrel started across the road from the right... Submitted 1 year 115 days ago.

Too Old to Dream New Dreams? - - Donovan Baldwin
I work puzzles. I buy puzzle books, most commonly the Dell Crossword Special, and work my way through them. I work crosswords, Sudoku, logic puzzles, anacrostics, and, when I'm almost through with the book and keep forgetting to buy a new one, I work some puzzles called "figgerits". These are... Submitted 1 year 119 days ago.

Free, An Endless Journey Just For The Asking: Not A Scam, But Filled With Surprises - Fran Larson
I recently took a trip that was so delightful. It was filled with new experiences, new scenery and different weather patterns that I was not accustomed to. Perhaps it was the newness and uniqueness that caused me to think of it as a "journey," instead of a trip. (A journey has an element of the... Submitted 1 year 125 days ago.

It's All About The Journey - Lynnette Vetsch
" The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. " Don Williams Jr. One thing that I hold very close to me is that life is full of lessons. Yes, I know, it isn't anything new and utterly amazing, but when... Submitted 1 year 286 days ago.

Lord, Make Me a Trout! - Ken McCreless
Greetings Fellow Travelers ... Question: Are you a jellyfish or a trout? Picture if you will the cabbage head jellyfish. It's a creature that wants to go places. This gelatinous and see-through animal thrashes itself in motions that give the appearance of determination and direction. ... Submitted 2 years 10 days ago.

How a Self-Healed Psychiatric Patient Optimized His Human Experience to the Benefit of Others - Jeff Brown
OK, I was never in therapy. Well, okay, kind of. But she was a psychologist, and I only saw her three times. What's interesting is that those three short visits, some twenty-two years ago, set me on a path of healing and recovery that has been my life's calling that which has culminated in... Submitted 2 years 68 days ago.

Promises: Made and Kept but No One Said It Would be Easy - Avis Ward
"Live in My sunshine and My Love. Know your lives are full of glad promise." -GOD There are times when I want to feel sorry for myself. I know when that happens it's because I'm filled to the brim and overflowing with "Avis" and not God, the Word made flesh. I sit and dine at the table... Submitted 2 years 117 days ago.

The Golden Rule is for Children - - James Bond
Treat others how you would like to be treated. Sounds simple enough doesn't it, and without serious inspection it would even seem like common sense. When applied to children in grade school it works out nicely, they learn to share and not hit utilizing this principle. However as we mature it is... Submitted 2 years 216 days ago.