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Joy in Motion

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Enter your email address: The joy of the moment just swinging with a six year old. When is the last time you were on a swing? Delivered by FeedBurner

As the World Turned

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Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner As the World Turned During the course of this last year Guiding Light and As the World Turns are now part of history gone by. Two iconic soaps, on afternoon TV becoming a mainstay of daily life for generations of housewives . Given birth in a time when largely women did not work outside of the home and after a morning of routine and cleaning, lunch fixed and a quiet time spaced out, women sat down on the couch and became part of world far away from the life they knew. At the time seeing afternoons as a rather virtual leap into another life, they took on the characters of the soap operas as part of their own life, having favorites and vocalizing to the screen through possibly their empty living rooms either joy or disgust for the screen on the TV and what they chose to identify with yet maybe secretly wondering if life beyond the routine was or could be a reality. Commercials geared to women of the world in the early years fr

Expansion of Thought

Expansion of Thought "The Grand Design" by Stephen Hawking http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/02/god-didnt-create-universe-stephen-hawking-argues/   Stephen Hawking in an excerpt of his new book being released September 7 th , which I intend on buying, reading the blogging in the future at this time has religious orders around the world publishing their thoughts before reading the material. Stephen Hawking has long been one who captured my attention through his findings on physics, quantum and the universe as we know or perceive it to be. A mind who will long be remembered into future millenniums possibly as taking the torch Einstein lit and seeing the flame growing more intense. Attempting to open theories for the future rather than accepting past theories as the only truth and expanding on the thoughts of those past, rather than debunking or eliminating the thought processes we have known. In clearly stating he is not debunking the presence of a higher divi

Remembering walking home from school

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Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner Remembering walking home from school! Remember those walks home too/from school? Kindergarten through sixth twice a day – seventh to ninth, maybe once a day and high school through my own stubbornness whenever possible I walked the four + miles home each day in a time when it just was my transportation on two feet. Over the last couple of years I found my walking feet again and enjoy the strolls. Would not anyone, especially a six year old boy whose fantasy for over a year has been walking home from school! Today, the fantasy shattered into what he termed his “most horrible start of a Labor Day weekend ever”! The long walk home consisted of six blocks. During the day EVERYONE in the building knew today would be his day to walk home! His principal came out of the school at dismissal, looking at me in a loud voice stating “Aidan is at the front of the line and we all know he is walking home today!” Mr. Harris’ voice had the