risk

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My sentiments exactly!!!

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"All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps

of one world seeping through the cracks of another.

Do you know the feeling when you start reading

a new book

before the membrane of the last one

has had time to close behind you?

You leave the previous book with ideas and themes

— characters even — caught in the fibers of your clothes,

and when you open the new book,

they are still with you."

~ Diane Setterfield

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Q: Hey, what are your plans today?

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Answer:

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Friday...

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Just a little weekend getaway...

to engage good breathing and good thoughts...

Namaste

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Curiosity

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"Can I count on you to be there, no matter what? she said 

and I said no 

and she said what kind of friend are you? 

and I said the kind who won't lie to you 

any time you want 

and I think she kept me around as a curiosity after that."

 crazy over Brian Andreas and Story People

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...and start over...

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"This was when I learned that you have to 

give up your life as you know it 

to get a new one: 

that sometimes you need to let go 

of everything you’re clinging to and start over, 

whether because you’ve outgrown it 

or because it’s not working anymore, 

or because it was wrong for you 

in the first place."

~Kelly Cutrone 

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Courage

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Find what inspires you.

What do you need to hear?

Does music help?

Find your Courage right here!!!!

thanks to Leo the Lionhearted!

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...love made new...

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 Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone; 

it has to be made, like bread, 

remade all the time, 

made new...

via H & H Art

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And Another Thing...

  

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OUR LIVES BEGIN TO END THE DAY WE BECOME SILENT 

ABOUT THINGS THAT MATTER

Please consider forwarding, if you agree.

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months and 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.

I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.

In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.

Congressional Reform Act of 2011

1. Term Limits. 12 years only, one of the possible options below.

A. Two Six-year Senate terms

B. Six Two-year House terms

C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms

2. No Tenure / No Pension.

3. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

4. Congress (past, present and future) participates in Social Security.

5. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.

6. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

7. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

8. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

9. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

10. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/2012.

11. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.

12. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.

13.  If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message. Maybe it is time.

LET'S FIX CONGRESS!!!!! If you agree, pass it on.

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Flight

Flight

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YOU aRe

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All an ant dreams is to be useful, to have a purpose in life, 

and a drop of water.

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Thank God It's Friday

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We're gonna go find a shoreline.  You?

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newer - hipper

 

Funny - Clipped and made By mayrocks please use.   (clipped to polyvore.com)

Then

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...be still, my heart...

oh, so many memories

the image makes me smile

a smile that only Downriverans can relate.

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