On June 19, 2012 I was 79 years old, and starting to live my 80th year. I decided to write down Things I Have Learned So Far: 3. Let Go of What’s Not Mine For a number of years I participated in a program called “Best Year Yet.”...
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June 21, 2012 Ann
Things I've Learned
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2. Just Work It When I was co-pastor at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Nyack, I asked my daughter Debbie to come and teach some of the children in the Sunday School how to make some greeting cards with stamps. At the time Debbie was doing “Stampin’...
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June 20, 2012 Ann
Things I've Learned
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Things I’ve Learned Today, June 19th, I am 79 years old and that means that I am starting my 80th year. I’ve been mulling over for a few weeks what I’ve learned—so far. And I decided to add this category to my blog and to write something every...
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June 20, 2012 Ann
Things I've Learned
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Immortal Bird by Doron Weber This was simply an amazing book. I have no quotes from it. But on the back of the book there is a recommendation from Dava Sobel, author of Longitude. This person writes: I found it almost impossible to read this book, or even...
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March 1, 2012 Ann
Books
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Winter Garden It’s a snowy day here (Saturday, January 21) and I laid in bed this morning finishing reading Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah. It is lasting into the day with me. First of all, I recommend it and will try to not say too much about it...
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January 21, 2012 Ann
Books
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God of brightness— Help me to be bright and in the brilliance to do good things… Forgive us on this day August 6 the deaths we wrought in Japan We celebrate those who survived and now work for peace help me join them. Amen.
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August 6, 2011 Business Success Coach, Donna Price
Prayers
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Hope and Courage in Times Such as These—A Concrete Example of Hope and Courage by Richard Deats For decades after the end of World War II, the Cold War reigned in a highly dangerous nuclear showdown between the Communist world and the West. Many people came to think...
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June 25, 2011 Ann
Ramblings
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This was the week of Amy DeLong’s United Methodist Church Trial. She was charged by the church with being a “self-avowed practicing homosexual” and with having performed a union service for two women. I spent the week thinking of her, praying for her and the entire process, helping...
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June 25, 2011 Ann
Ramblings
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In May I read eleven books and these are the ones I would especially point out. — Healing—A Woman’s Journey from Doctor to Nun by Sister Dang Nghiem. Sister Nghiem was born in the midst of the Vietnam War and this book tells of her journey from her...
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June 16, 2011 Ann
Books
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The Girls — he called them “the girls” this group of deer who still make their way across his lawn to the small space of woods on the other side of his street — “the girls” keep coming despite the Saturn dealer who cleared some trees to make...
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May 18, 2011 Ann
Poems
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