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Entries from August 30th, 2007

If You Want to Read Some Really Good Writing . . .

August 30th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Blogging, Katrina, Perspective, Reflections

. . . go back and read the posts I did all through and following Hurricane Katrina.  You can find them in my archives to the right by reading the posts in August 2005 (Aug. 28 through the end of the month – the 31st) and September 2005 (from the beginning through at least the [...]

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I Am A Confidant & Visionary

August 29th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Reflections, Uncategorized

Well, I broke down and did something I haven’t done in quite a while.  I took a couple of online personality tests.  They showed what just about every other personality test I’ve ever taken showed .  That I’m introverted (which a lot of people who know me casually or maybe even here on my blog [...]

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Thunderstorm Porch Sittin’

August 28th, 2007 · 13 Comments · Creating A Home, Katrina, Reflections, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

Thunderstorms have been crackling and booming in the past several afternoons.  Very loudly and ferociously.    Tom says that when storms move from east to west, against the flow in the U. S., which is normally west to east, at least generally, the thunder and lightening are much worse.  I don’t know about that, but [...]

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Facing Obstacles . . .

August 27th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Blogging, Humor, Photos, Videos, Uncategorized

Whatever obstacles you face today, I hope they can be solved this easily!    And I’m a cat lover, too!  But, for today I’m thinking Michael Vick and the  great cartoon I saw this morning over at "The Rev’s Ramblings" posted by the illustrious and industrious Greg England.  (The adjectives are because it’s Monday morning [...]

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Godly Extreme Makeovers

August 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Finding Direction Contests

 My business is not to remake myself, but make the absolute best of what God made.  Robert Browning Some people are caught up in the "extreme makeover" idea and mindset where they want to totally re-do many body parts and change them all up to make their physical bodies something totally different in the end. I [...]

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Dog Day Afternoons of Late Summer

August 22nd, 2007 · 11 Comments · Uncategorized

It’s been really hot and humid here lately.  Heat index has been way above 100 degrees.  I’m sure glad our house is finished and we are in it and not still in the building or moving process.   I had a pleasant surprise yesterday when I received our first month’s electric bill.  It was $135, [...]

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Controlling the Things That Depend on Us

August 20th, 2007 · 10 Comments · Finding Direction Contests, Inspirational, Perspective, Reflections, Uncategorized

  You can’t control the length of your life, but you can control its width and depth.  You can’t control the contour of your face, but you can control its expression.  You can’t control the weather, but you can control the atmosphere of your mind.  Why worry about things you can’t control when you can [...]

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