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Old 08-30-2008, 02:13 AM   #251 (permalink)
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Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.
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Old 08-30-2008, 03:46 AM   #252 (permalink)
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I am grateful for all the detours God has put on my paths of life. I may mumble and complain because I was getting comfortable on the path I had chosen, but HP has never failed to find me a better path and in hindsight show me why.

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Old 08-30-2008, 04:20 AM   #253 (permalink)
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"bridge out"

happy i bulit a new one!
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Old 08-30-2008, 03:00 PM   #254 (permalink)
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Some detours open new vistas
Others may bring us full circle back to where we veered off
no matter..God allows U turns
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Old 08-30-2008, 04:18 PM   #255 (permalink)
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we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road
Grateful I stepped off and out...you all helped me.
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Old 08-31-2008, 04:01 AM   #256 (permalink)
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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Old 08-31-2008, 05:52 AM   #257 (permalink)
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Wow, Annie, another Godincidence....we`re both posting on dancing today.

So dance in beauty, enjoy each step, even if you dance like Elaine on Seinfield, which I do...ha ha.

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Old 08-31-2008, 01:33 PM   #258 (permalink)
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Talking

What? You gals don't lambada?
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Old 08-31-2008, 06:48 PM   #259 (permalink)
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Old 09-02-2008, 05:25 AM   #260 (permalink)
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I used to be able to do an Irish Jig but not with these legs anymore lol. I love flamenco tho my all time passion.

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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Old 09-02-2008, 05:13 PM   #261 (permalink)
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*Lol* Indie...pics requested!!!

My prob is....simplifying to the degree of slothfulness...

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Old 09-02-2008, 06:55 PM   #262 (permalink)
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Old 09-03-2008, 11:07 AM   #263 (permalink)
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Indie and Bro'.....Hugs.
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Old 09-04-2008, 12:55 PM   #264 (permalink)
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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rising out of the dark...

This is so true Indie.

Those times I have felt that "rise in me" have been the most precious.

The reason I am here today.

Thank you!
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Old 09-04-2008, 03:50 PM   #266 (permalink)
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Rising out of the dark made the light even more beautiful...thanks for the reminder Annie.
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Old 09-05-2008, 10:50 AM   #268 (permalink)
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
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Old 09-06-2008, 03:47 AM   #269 (permalink)
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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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I love what our friend Lbad says on her sig line..

"Say what you mean, mean what you say but don't say it mean".

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Old 09-07-2008, 01:19 AM   #271 (permalink)
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If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come.
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Got my green bough Indie....

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Old 09-08-2008, 11:42 AM   #273 (permalink)
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There's a Moon Inside My Body
The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it:
The moon is within me, and so is the sun.
The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it.

So long as man clamours for the I and the Mine, his works are as naught:
When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.
For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge:
When that comes, then work is put away.

The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers.
The musk is in the deer, but it seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass.


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Old 09-08-2008, 07:17 PM   #274 (permalink)
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The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it:
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The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it.
I love those words, Annie, how beautiful.

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