Category: Truth
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What Are You Afraid of?
I am not afraid of much, not really. There is my fear of being alone. Not just alone for an afternoon if my husband is busy and all my kids are at school. I mean, alone, alone. Like A.L.O.N.E. alone. No family, no friends. Pure stillness and silence. Just me and a ticking clock. No…
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Family is What You Make it
Family. I have one, we all do. Human families are multi-generational and consist of multi-species. My dog is my fur baby and certainly family. We have two families. The one we are born in to and the one we choose. Blood makes one and trust makes the other. There can be love in both. Families…
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Patience
I have none. I do not like to wait. I have heard that most people like me hate waiting, but there are a choice few humans who can wait with no ill effects at all. I am not one of those people. I get agitated, grumpy and whiny. Today is one of those days. My…
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Ignore Him, That Works
Why is it that so many women, I guess men too, think that ignoring their spouse or partner is the way to fix a problem or win an argument? Last I checked most humans can’t read minds. Love doesn’t work that way. People need to know what the problem is to correct it. It’s pretty…
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What Color is your Hope?
I see hope as yellow. Like the sunshine. Others see hope blue like calm water or white like purity easily lost. Hope is a dream a wish for something to come. It isn’t faith. Faith is something you have that says you trust someone else or yourself to do a thing or keep a promise.…
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What’s Your Story
“Do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on.” ~ unknown I have always loved the quote above. It is more than a quip about not judging others. It reminds us that everyone has a story. What you see when you interact with a person is one page in the story of…
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Weird is Relative
How many times have you done something that you knew other people would consider weird? How many times have you actually been called weird? Why be like everyone else? Be unique. Be brave. Be different. Be fabulous. In my family we have a motto, “Embrace the weird!” Don’t worry about what others think. Just be…
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On Loss and Sadness
This is my last post for awhile about death. Another teenager, yes that is correct, another teenager, in one of my daughters’ schools committed suicide, my friend is in hospice and my heart hurts from memories of personal loss. What is wrong with the world? Can’t you see, humans, that there is enough sadness on…
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Death in Threes
I am not a superstitious person. I believe that God is in control of fate with the exception of our free will. I have noticed lately there seems to be a quiet mass harvest of souls happening. In my small circle of acquaintances and even smaller circle of friends, there have been nine deaths recently.…
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When are you Happy?
Are you happy right now at this very second? Take a breath and think deeply about it. Is your life what you want? Are you safe? Do you have food and a place to lay your head at night? Do you have love? If you really think about it, life takes very little to be…
Brendan & Lori O'Gara 