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Slow Down
We live in a fast-paced world. It seems that we have little patience for most things these days. I think that we need to take time for ourselves. We need to slow down sometimes. If we get sick, we need to take the time to make ourselves better. We owe this to ourselves and to…
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Commonplace Book # 10
“Much of our satisfaction in life depends on our skills in connecting with other people – skills of dialogue we might call them.” – Bonnycastle, Stephen. In Search of Authority pg 23 Connecting with people is a skill? Does that mean that we can learn how to do it better? I think it does. This…
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Negative Rights
I saw this program on television this weekend that mentioned negative rights – the right to be without something. Right away I thought about cell phones. In this day and age, is it even possible to be free of this communication device? I personally don’t care for cell phones. I have an answering machine at…
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Music Space Issues
Like I said yesterday, I have issues when it comes to organizing my music. I have vinyl records, cassette tapes, and CDs. Each format of music that I own is organized in its own way. My records are in old milk crates or recycling bins. These containers are great for storing records and make it…
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How to Organize My Music
I love music! I started my collection when I was a child with vinyl records (you know those big black shiny things called LPs that spun around on a turntable at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute.) The records soon got replaced by cassette tapes. I bought hundred of tapes. Then CDs came into the mix.…
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I’m Searchable Now!
Have you ever typed your name into Google’s search engine just to see what happens? It’s an interesting thing to search for yourself in cyberspace. I know that I have tried it before and got absolutely nothing. Typing in “chase march” in Google usually gets you a storm chasers website and a photo of a…
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Whatever Happened to Commitment?
There is a great commercial on television right now. It starts with a man driving a car while a voice over narrator speaks. The narrator comments on how we live in an age of instant gratification. He says, “Don’t like your nose? Get a new one,” and it shows an image of the driver with…
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Commonplace Book # 9
“No Authority can impose a ‘truth’ on you in a dogmatic way – and if some authority tries to, you can challenge that truth in a powerful way, by asking what ideology it is based on.” – Bonnycastle, Stephen. In Search of Authority pg 9
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Author Mail
Sharon Creech wrote my all-time favourite book, Heartbeat. Early this year I wrote her a letter to tell her how much I enjoy her work and how successful the novel study went in my class last year. Last week I finally got a response. It was a large letter-sized envelope with HarperCollins Publishers listed as…
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I Love Running
I love running. It is such an amazing feeling to run down a trail and through the woods. I don’t like flat and boring courses. I like runs that give me a bit of a challenge. I like to go to places where there are plenty of trails and hills. I can’t understand why anyone…