Category: Thoughts
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Be Different
It is better to be different than to be like everyone else. Seems to me the new trend is to be differently the same. All over social media people suffer the same aliments and post about it repeatedly. When did having anxiety become a social norm? Wait….Before you go all crazy, look, I know that…
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A Word to Use
My only regret for this past year is not telling more people “No”. There is nothing wrong with telling people No. If you are tired, if you just don’t want to or if the thing they ask of you makes you feel even just a little bit off course, say no. Compromising to be liked…
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Where Are You Headed?
There is only one way to live your life and that is your way. No one can tell you what to feel, what to think or what to believe. You have to decide that for yourself. No one can motivate you or teach you initiative. You have to motivate yourself to be better, to be…
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New Year, New Words
Starting Jan 1, 2020 Lori will write a short post right here everyday. It will be published at tea time, around three (CST) in the afternoon. Many of her readers have asked her to resume the “Thought of the Day” posts on social media. This will be similar. Regular blog posts will be published on…
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Who are You?
How do you see yourself? Do you see yourself as a writer, artist, worker, manager, 9 to 5-er, housewife? How you perceive yourself has a great influence in your daily success. For the longest time I didn’t call myself an author or even a writer. I was just a wife and mom who liked to…
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You Do Not Have to Suffer
Life is a struggle. Will you have pain? Yes, that is true. However, there is so much more to life. We, humans, share joy as well as pain. There are happiness and sadness that happens. We learn from all of it. I saw a quote that made me shake my head and ask, “What the…
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Some People…
The other day I was accused of theft and was attacked by a person I have never met. What happened was this, I purchased a book cover for all the Necromancer’s Song books from cover designers recommended to be by other writers* I trusted. The recommended cover creator who made the cover for The Serpent…
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The Power of Stopping
I kept thinking I had forgotten something. You know that nagging feeling that something important is not getting done. Check the oven. No, it’s off. Pick up my phone. Nothing on the calendar. No waiting messages. Self-doubt and anxiety were disrupting my normal existence and interfered with my quality of life. I decided that I…
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Kids These Days
Every generation has its version of this complaint. For my grandparents, it was, “Kids these days don’t know what love is” when my parents were part of the free love hippie sixties. For my mom and dad, it was, “Fashion? We had to wear homemade clothes. Music? We had to listen to one radio station.…
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We are All Homesick for Something
What are you missing? There is a feeling that comes and goes in the human heart. It is called hiraeth. Hiraeth is a Welsh concept of longing for home. Many Welsh people claim ‘hiraeth’ is a word which cannot be translated, meaning more than solely “missing something” or “missing home.” It is an unexplained longing.…
Brendan & Lori O'Gara 