There is a Mystic Borderland There is a mystic borderland that lies Just past the limits of our workday world, And it is peopled with the friends we met And loved a year, a month, a week or day, And parted from with aching hearts, yet knew That through the distance we must loose the …Read More
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Keep Going ~ by Edgar A. Guest
Keep Going When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must—but don’t you quit. Life …Read More
Video: Funny News Lady
Laughter is medicine, but this might be an overdose. Watch this video responsibly. Please remember to breathe. The snorting noise is normal. The wet feeling in your pants is not. Watch Video: Funny News Lady – Who’s Seen My Tits? – Original Report and Autotune Remix
Look to this Day, for it is Life ~ by Kalidasa
Look to this Day,for it is Life – the very Life of Life.In its brief course lie all the veritiesand realities of your existence:the Bliss of Growth,the Glory of Action,the Splendor of Beauty.For yesterday is already a dreamand tomorrow is only a vision;but today, well-lived,makes every yesterday a dream of happinessand every tomorrow a vision …Read More
#25: Biodynamic Farming (KT Alaimo)
Harvest Bee Farms KT Alaimo, owner and manager of Harvest Bee Farms, is passionate about farming. Devoted to biodynamic farming, he grows “good soil” and good produce is the byproduct. As farmers are aging and wisdom is being lost, he is of the new generation of farmers working to preserve sustainable and healthy farming techniques …Read More
Thanksgiving Song by Mary Chapin Carpenter
Thanksgiving Song Grateful for each hand we hold Gathered round this table. From far and near we travel home, Blessed that we are able. Grateful for this sheltered place With light in every window, Saying welcome, welcome, share this feast Come in away from sorrow. Father, mother, daughter, son, Neighbor, friend and friendless; All together …Read More
Florida Storytelling Festival moves to January 2019
“I didn’t learn stories, I just absorbed them.” ~Donald Davis Florida Storytelling Festival Come absorb stories in the Historic Mount Dora, the highest place in Florida. Don’t worry, it’s not that high, only 184 feet! The annual Florida Storytelling Festival celebrates the 35th year! Thursday, January 24 – Sunday, January 27, 2019 Nestled up against …Read More
The Pendulum by Dwight Lyman Moody
The Pendulum There was once a pendulum waiting to be fixed on a new clock. It began to calculate how long it would be before the big wheels were worn out and its work was done. It would be expected to tick night and day, so many times a minute, sixty times that every hour, …Read More
Storytelling as Healing – A New Course at FGCU
It’s official. I’m teaching “Storytelling as Healing” at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) in Ft Myers, Florida, for the Spring Semester that starts in January 2019. (Yes, I still have trouble calling January Spring, even in Florida, but that’s Academic Life.) As part of the Integrated Studies Department, the class will meet every Wednesday 4:30pm …Read More
Remembrance Day – “In Flanders Fields”
November 11 is Remembrance Day in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. (While November 11 in the United States is Veteran’s Day, the British Remembrance Day is more similar to Memorial Day in the United States.) Remembrance Day honors the end of World War I and honors those that died in the war. Wearing a …Read More