tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20206122873139213062024-03-06T00:32:33.323-05:00Lore RaymondLore Raymondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16319547394150421504noreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2020612287313921306.post-70037156318426250102020-12-30T07:00:00.016-05:002020-12-30T09:00:16.078-05:004 Ways to Celebrate 2021 with Your Soul Spa Day<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFQkA4DfPx0UcmT2jbZf1ZoP9W7ty_V0Fh3kfurYSNm_rHWoajOsAlkWlwdcUbsQso1qUuyET5QY5BWF2x1w-1vVexRXRtqlS1Pq6dZRJpZvJjAqRFaXtGdTic5qjgB9Vuiy9PRpiUCzfQ/s1024/Moonlight-Magic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="1024" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFQkA4DfPx0UcmT2jbZf1ZoP9W7ty_V0Fh3kfurYSNm_rHWoajOsAlkWlwdcUbsQso1qUuyET5QY5BWF2x1w-1vVexRXRtqlS1Pq6dZRJpZvJjAqRFaXtGdTic5qjgB9Vuiy9PRpiUCzfQ/w640-h444/Moonlight-Magic.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Q: HOW CAN YOU CELEBRATE 2021
IN NEW WAYS? </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">A: CREATE YOUR <i>SOUL-SPA </i>DAY!</span></b><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Are you counting down
the hours to the New Year of 2021? </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">If "yes," then it's time to
create sacred space </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">for</span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> you</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">You do this by engaging with these four simple,
powerful steps and ritu</span>als:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">STEP ONE
<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">On December 30 and 31, start
shifting your energy by: </span></span></b><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">* Gathering </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">or<i> buying </i>supplies for
tomorrow's writing e.g. a new pen and journal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMgGYS6Bz1jmh5fhr3T2U00_yoeooxowp83jXgJ4TxwvmJeG2apjEAa_PYqQ4tcVR5p22knS5EaiWhlCUpCIZdkDE_J1lYImmbgCGPOfMutmF6WuB1zX5xTOsd_rDbuBJjY1_CSfEiKQPH/s794/Blog_moon+journal.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="794" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMgGYS6Bz1jmh5fhr3T2U00_yoeooxowp83jXgJ4TxwvmJeG2apjEAa_PYqQ4tcVR5p22knS5EaiWhlCUpCIZdkDE_J1lYImmbgCGPOfMutmF6WuB1zX5xTOsd_rDbuBJjY1_CSfEiKQPH/w640-h640/Blog_moon+journal.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>*</b> <i>Cooking<b> </b></i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">different meals today and tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">* </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Dining</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> adventurously by</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> ordering takeout from the restaurant section of your paper's "best pics" and choose one to pick
up or have delivered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">* </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Dreaming</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> in new (or freshly
washed) sheets to remember that miracles are coming!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">* </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Wearing</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> new jammies. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">* </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Setting</span></i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"> the alarm for 4:30
am on January 1 to connect with the archangel's energies at 4:44 am.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
* <i>Prepping </i>and <i>cleaning</i> your writing (or
angel) altar with a new candle, incense, and flowers.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA9zY_GyKhijqmpTZmdS0i2NKszuQIKbHOJG5PyP5iYoZ2xRyLXRXUhluiNLf-00wp-Oi6iACkFs4uNJy-KdZizZCgkaTMQwr2haSQVpOSAYQI00ONIXvnVl0QsD3PQQP8YG9lcI0m9irO/s1920/blog_444+numbermeaning.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1920" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA9zY_GyKhijqmpTZmdS0i2NKszuQIKbHOJG5PyP5iYoZ2xRyLXRXUhluiNLf-00wp-Oi6iACkFs4uNJy-KdZizZCgkaTMQwr2haSQVpOSAYQI00ONIXvnVl0QsD3PQQP8YG9lcI0m9irO/w640-h426/blog_444+numbermeaning.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">STEP TWO</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">On New Year’s Eve Day/ Night, make room for
the wonders, miracles, and opportunities of 2021 by:</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">* <i>Releasing</i><b> </b>everything
from<b> </b>2020 with a <a href="https://www.unity.org/resources/articles/how-burning-bowl-ritual" target="_blank">Burning Bowl Ceremony</a>. I'm grateful to a dear friend who introduced me to this ritual in 1983 at the spiritual center of First Unity, St. Petersburg, FL. I have plans to do this New Year's Eve with my mom.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-yIlbOmvechXmS4UgStlHSmpJIcNHi4JxM8O-Fa2J1KGV2UK-uwFWgJl9TyXy7InsqecuW6uGVqoZ2aEUnzacAkmPn4CscwFBC_wzTehSGrZWbIYFx_8v__B4CLkBNMc__LwZs5pZhz5j/s700/BurningBowl-SQ-e1581677641728.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="700" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-yIlbOmvechXmS4UgStlHSmpJIcNHi4JxM8O-Fa2J1KGV2UK-uwFWgJl9TyXy7InsqecuW6uGVqoZ2aEUnzacAkmPn4CscwFBC_wzTehSGrZWbIYFx_8v__B4CLkBNMc__LwZs5pZhz5j/w640-h446/BurningBowl-SQ-e1581677641728.jpg" width="640" /></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">STEP THREE</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Start 2021 with Your Soul Spa Day by:</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">* <i>Lighting</i> a new soy candle and
incense to lift up your thoughts and prayers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">* <i>Meditating</i><b> </b>in silence
or enjoying a moving meditation (walking) to greet the sunrise.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">* </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Praying</span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">through words, song, or dance;
go within, <i>"Spinning Your Gold," </i>despite what’s
happening on the outside.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">* </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Reading<b> </b></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">inspirational books; new ones might include the 25th Anniversary
Edition of <i>Simple Abundance</i> by Sarah Ban Breathnach (my
all-time favorite book) and last year’s <i>365 Soulful Messages: The Right
Guidance at the Right Time, </i>a #1 Amazon International Bestseller and
my </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2020612287313921306/2640161437967473132"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ninth collaborative book</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">* </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Writing</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> in a new journal
with a new pen. (Why write in something old or with an old pen?)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">* </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Creating</span></i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"> a 2020 Gratitude
Lis</span>t. For fun, use the alphabet as a template and go through it a couple of times. Grab a dictionary or your favorite book, open to a page, and with eyes closed, point to a word. Write a gratitude statement with the word.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV2yaG2syB55xNMc-zRg4kN3IJHIhyphenhyphenHhDIZdydEdQiGssXl7UzEbZRdjFOb4G7EDbxM4otLf1dJs4x195ttufFisM-XmRal7vZYpisfx19Q1D29O7mggW-H5PN1GaYFf9ja2wc9VcaHkW0/s688/blog_gratitude+list.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="688" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV2yaG2syB55xNMc-zRg4kN3IJHIhyphenhyphenHhDIZdydEdQiGssXl7UzEbZRdjFOb4G7EDbxM4otLf1dJs4x195ttufFisM-XmRal7vZYpisfx19Q1D29O7mggW-H5PN1GaYFf9ja2wc9VcaHkW0/w640-h422/blog_gratitude+list.jpg" width="640" /></a></b></div><b><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">STEP FOUR<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Begin attracting what you seek by:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Crafting</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> a 2021 AAA List: Always Appreciating in Advance List. For example, start writing with the general statement of <i>I am always
appreciating in advance, I am for:</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> * E</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">xpanding health,
wealth, and happiness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> * </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">All my freedoms and free
will.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> * </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Being COVID-19, disease,
and dis-ease free for myself and all sentient beings!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> * </span></span><!--[endif]--></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">The healing of our world
and nation through wise, compassionate leadership, and active citizenry.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="color: #444444;"> * </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">H.U.G.S. - Happy
Unexpected God Surprises.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWhghgW-gtsisPS_VzOMcrOeDuECdNn7eeETWpwRjnRmTzw1TREfCoXliuoj7PTejTX1sPRpQWvIK_B6-I7h1PGhLb8ecMoOM2_P_rW-fLQi69Tzgmy7Gkd1VUxJPelAYeYyrMt-1si9pj/s2048/blog_asian-american-voters-georgia-blue-1b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWhghgW-gtsisPS_VzOMcrOeDuECdNn7eeETWpwRjnRmTzw1TREfCoXliuoj7PTejTX1sPRpQWvIK_B6-I7h1PGhLb8ecMoOM2_P_rW-fLQi69Tzgmy7Gkd1VUxJPelAYeYyrMt-1si9pj/w640-h426/blog_asian-american-voters-georgia-blue-1b.jpg" title="The Highest and best good in the two Georgia Senate run-offs in now assured. Amen" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ucci48y6yTT908ak3cZzngqbLzMIaTVmN_b5xQrVVukOfmv3LrOBComWdz6pAJOpsQ-OJQaXPaLrZ6T11o3nxLKLaINXBeIFFI8qvIS0S9_AejSMpK0ihdbZvn8m4H4brxOYqH57xq8v/s862/blog_Biden_Harris_victory.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="862" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ucci48y6yTT908ak3cZzngqbLzMIaTVmN_b5xQrVVukOfmv3LrOBComWdz6pAJOpsQ-OJQaXPaLrZ6T11o3nxLKLaINXBeIFFI8qvIS0S9_AejSMpK0ihdbZvn8m4H4brxOYqH57xq8v/w640-h360/blog_Biden_Harris_victory.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;">For me, I am always appreciating in advance the ease and grace to finish writing my book for a 2021 publication in sacred service to worldwide readers.</span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">"I learned this, at least,
by my experiment: </span></i></span><i style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">that if one advances confidently in the direction of (her)
dreams and endeavors to live the life which (she) has imagined, (she) will
meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” </span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">~Henry David Thoreau</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><b>HAPPY NEW YEAR!</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>Lore Raymondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16319547394150421504noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2020612287313921306.post-26401614379674731322020-12-29T04:53:00.000-05:002020-12-29T04:53:22.294-05:00Create Your Soul Spa Day to Ring in 2021!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">IN TRANSFORMATIVE WAYS? </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">TRY CREATING YOUR SOUL-SPA DAY!</b><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">STEP ONE on DECEMBER 31</span></b></span><br />
Are you counting down the hours to the New Year and New Decade? </div>
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You do this by engaging with these simple, yet powerful four steps and rituals.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Start shifting your energies by:</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>* </b><i>Eating</i><b> </b>a different food for dinner with someone you'd never thought of asking for dinner<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>* </b><i>Dining</i><b> </b>differently; open the restaurant section of your paper's "best pics" and choose one<o:p></o:p></div>
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* <i>Releasing</i><b> </b>the past with a <i><a href="https://www.loreraymond.com/2019/12/celebrate-new-you-year-with-your-soul.html" target="_blank">Burning Bowl Ceremony</a></i><o:p></o:p><br />
<i>* Gathering </i>or<i> buying </i>supplies for tomorrow's writing e.g. a new pen and journal</div>
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<b>* </b><i>Dreaming</i> in new sheets to remember that miracles are coming!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>* </b><i>Wearing</i> new jammies <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>* </b><i>Setting</i> the alarm for 4:30 am to connect with the archangel's energies at 4:44 am<br />
* <i>Prepping </i>and <i>cleaning</i> your writing (or angel) altar with a new candle, incense, and flowers<br />
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* <i>Lighting</i> a new soy candle and incense to lift up your thoughts and prayers<o:p></o:p></div>
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* <i>Meditating</i><b> </b>in silence or enjoying a moving meditation of walking to greet the sunrise<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>* </b><i>Reading</i><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>inspirational books; new ones might include the 25th Anniversary Edition of <i>Simple Abundance</i> by Sarah Ban Breathnach--my all-time favorite book and; the recently released<i> 365 Soulful Messages: The Right Guidance at the Right Time, </i>a #1 Amazon International Bestseller and my <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lore-Raymond/e/B01H7MXT2O" target="_blank">ninth collaborative book</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>* </b><i>Writing</i> in a new journal with a new pen. (Why write in something old or with an old pen?)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>* </b><i>Creating</i> a 2019 Gratitude List and a 2020 <i>AAA List: Always Appreciating in Advance List</i><o:p></o:p><br />
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<i>* Setting </i>the intention to join me and other like-minded writing sisters on Saturday, January 18 for the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Womens-Divine-Dialogue-Writing/events/265739061/" target="_blank">20!20 Visioning Retreat: Vision is Your New Super Power</a>--a Tampa Bay Meetup event of the Women's Divine Dialogue Writing Circle<i>-</i>-now celebrating its 14 Season.<br />
<i>* Joining </i>the women's free Facebookook group of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/408734122547437/" target="_blank">Writer's VisionQuest</a><br />
* <i>Visiting</i> the page of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WomenAsVisionariesWithLoreRaymond/" target="_blank">Women as Visionaries with Lore Raymond</a> for daily inspiration about sHeroes around the globe!<br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b><i>EVERY DAY,</i> </b></span><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">CELEBRATE the NEW YOU </span></b></span><b style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">and the </b><b style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">NEW YEAR, NEW DECADE!</b></div>
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Lore Raymondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16319547394150421504noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2020612287313921306.post-80638371797882215312020-11-25T07:30:00.003-05:002020-11-25T08:04:05.507-05:00Let me remember to be grateful because ...<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Spinning Your Gold: Words that Open Hearts and Inspire
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;">To be GRATEFUL because life is an
invaluable gift. </span></b></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;">I am grateful for:</span></b><i style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Divine protection from the Non-Physical
Protection Team of Ascended ones, angels, saints, and ancestors; Mom and I waking
up COVID-19-free for 269 consecutive days!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">The privilege of writing this blog to celebrate
Thanksgiving Day since 260,000 Americans will never again sit around a
Thanksgiving table with loved ones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Men and women whose deaths remind me of life’s
preciousness: John Lewis, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard
Brooks, and Daniel Prude. May you rest in peace and power. (There are more.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">67 successful turns-around-the-sun benchmarked
in October as an American woman who didn’t always appreciate my white privilege
with free will and freedoms until now.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;">To be GRATEFUL because I am a living
instrument of the divine. </span></b></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;">I am grateful for:</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Being our home’s coronavirus safety and
news director as the vigilant protector of a most precious one, my mom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Leading the celebration for her 88<sup>th </sup>turn-around-the-sun
with "Clare Fest", a 13-day socially distanced party in May.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Being a messenger of what I felt was the truth
about the attack on our nation’s democracy by writing blogs and inspiring posts
(most of the time). <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Becoming the project manager to restore
our home to Divine Order after the flooding from tropical storm Eta on 11-11-20.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Reaching out to friends with a “Praying Together
Matters” Facebook challenge along with letters for “Merry Christmas in July”
and “Happy Full Moon & Halloween.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;">To be GRATEFUL for every experience that
has brought me to this day.</span></b></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"> I am grateful for:</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">A global pandemic that taught me to love
the unloveable and to thank the unthankable. (Still a work in progress.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">The contrast of extreme dark and light
behaviors in national and local communities that mirrored my shadows revealing
the changes I needed to make.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">The “Friends” who unfriended, blocked, or
snoozed me on social media for my political views (or whatever reasons) and the
courage to unfriend people whose values no longer align with mine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;">To be GRATEFUL for everything I have ever
received.</span></b></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"> I am grateful for:</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Being inspired and comforted by
information through 100 of 111 daily briefings with my adopted governor, Governor
Andrew M. Cuomo (D-New York), Professor Heather Cox Richardson’s “Daily Letters
to America”, Dan Rather’s reflections, and Laura Lentz’s heart-tugging stories.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Relearning American geography and the names
of governors and other legislators.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">H.U.G.S. - Happy Unexpected God Surprises:
Blue Sisters & Brothers who are new friends and my “family by choice” as we
worked to elect Biden-Harris, and hopefully two new, Democratic Senators in Georgia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">The joyful news on November 7, 2020, that
Joseph R. Biden would be our 46<sup>th</sup> POTUS joined by Senator Kamala
Devi Harris (D-CA) as the <i>first </i>female vice president! The world
celebrating as if it were the end of WWII or the fall of the Berlin Wall that
the past four years were over.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Daily Divine Downloads of ideas to share
in my first solo book, <i>The Divine Dialogue Writing System:</i></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">How
to Exercise Intuition Using Ancient Rituals for Your Greater Confidence,
Clarity, and Connection.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"><b>I am GRATEFUL to Iyanla Vanzant for this template (see
italics) from her <i>One Day My Soul Just Opened Up, </i>I am. </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"><b>Amen</b></span><i style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700;"></span></span></div><p></p>Lore Raymondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16319547394150421504noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2020612287313921306.post-49879058478156682732020-11-03T13:36:00.000-05:002020-11-03T13:36:41.014-05:00Thank you to the Women with the Power to ...<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_L3Ykw0QEvUhvVy7H4QdJGAVzXKtWeJtIFXAtDMLKwy8I3yKDuarzbVetFbrH2tQ1ovgyZ9TwhpDE4hN1RIjxpmLgqnacvG3Zw_MfBLyriHHOtERzXBDZbcwALDHRYfg-xWjjj1EkjQmN/s1024/blog_womens-march-trump.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="1024" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_L3Ykw0QEvUhvVy7H4QdJGAVzXKtWeJtIFXAtDMLKwy8I3yKDuarzbVetFbrH2tQ1ovgyZ9TwhpDE4hN1RIjxpmLgqnacvG3Zw_MfBLyriHHOtERzXBDZbcwALDHRYfg-xWjjj1EkjQmN/w640-h402/blog_womens-march-trump.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><br /><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: times; font-size: large;">"WOMEN
HAVE THE POWER TO END THIS PRESIDENCY. </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">The
#45 presidency began with women marching in record numbers. </span></b><b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Now it’s going to
end with women voting in record numbers."</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Before
the fray of reporting begins to report the epic conclusion of a Blue Tsunami, I
pause to thank several women, to give praise, and to offer a HELL, YEAH! to</span>:</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">All Suffragettes who, 100 years ago, gained the right to vote for women. </span></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b5394; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">The United States
Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution granting women full and
equal voting rights on August 26, 1920, when we commemorate this right with
National Women’s Equality Day.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b5394; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Suffragette
visionary activists like Susan Brownell Anthony, </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Martha Wright, Mary
Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span>(<a href="https://bit.ly/2HZuJ0d">https://bit.ly/2HZuJ0d</a>)
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">All
modern-day activists as Facebook group organizers with passionate members whom I’ve
been honored to be a part of like Nasty Women for Biden-Harris and Florida
Women for Biden-Harris.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Everyone
who courageously and fearlessly VOTED BLUE; college students driving or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>flying hours home to vote; pregnant women standing
inline for hours while holding a toddler’s hand; the </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">centenarians+, nonagenarians, octogenarians, and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">of course, YOU, too!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Republicans
like Cindy McCain, wife of former Senator John McCain, reclaiming democracy by
voting Democratic.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Organizations
like Act Blue and the Lincoln Project.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Donors,
oh, God Bless all the donors, including the billionaires like Mike Bloomberg.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lauren
McLaughlin and our group of eight women who for one month have been affirming
and holding in mediation this phrase: The Highest and best good for our beautiful
nation is now assured. Amen</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">The
women (and men) medical heroes who’ve been fighting the COVID-19 battle for
almost nine months and remain on the frontline, working to help thousands recover.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">The
women (and men) of the USPS for hanging in there, rain or shine to deliver our
mail and our votes! You are my forever heroes! (<a href="https://bit.ly/38ajigO">https://bit.ly/38ajigO</a>)
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Then there are specific
women whose shoulders we stood on, and now stand on:</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY0gPGIyum7VAcwA8ZK6u5P9boKhtINqgTA1T39AtuYQ-PXn7VcJee-C-h-0P9VVg2pNf9cpbU-ePwmKAW-QdWf5MAg2Au-ZI_WKq2BY03UCY-pVcPi2lYiz9GyRH2NdZZvYLjLSYAZXgV/s850/blog_RBG-fight-for-the-things-that-you-care-about-but-do-it-in-a-way-that-will-lead-others-to-ruth-bader-ginsburg-126-89-96.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="850" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY0gPGIyum7VAcwA8ZK6u5P9boKhtINqgTA1T39AtuYQ-PXn7VcJee-C-h-0P9VVg2pNf9cpbU-ePwmKAW-QdWf5MAg2Au-ZI_WKq2BY03UCY-pVcPi2lYiz9GyRH2NdZZvYLjLSYAZXgV/w640-h302/blog_RBG-fight-for-the-things-that-you-care-about-but-do-it-in-a-way-that-will-lead-others-to-ruth-bader-ginsburg-126-89-96.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;">RGB.</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;">
Yes, “Tell them Ruth sent you” to the polls.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;">We did and we are today, Ruth. RIP—Rest in Peace. We’ve got this!<b> (</b></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3elsfVG" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;">https://bit.ly/3elsfVG</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;">)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY2idp1Agxnk1hwwpx0XfQsnXNSZGchw2_-HFevAB_mJKIifV3Rme-9SsIoePJOzNpTi0DUVVi_IXJDwpFDoju5toikmLIbYH4M9mjjJwqDc9UZGWJvV9EPU7s9hf0GvNu6Nc61bZZKRXT/s297/blog_Kamala+Harris_flag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="170" data-original-width="297" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY2idp1Agxnk1hwwpx0XfQsnXNSZGchw2_-HFevAB_mJKIifV3Rme-9SsIoePJOzNpTi0DUVVi_IXJDwpFDoju5toikmLIbYH4M9mjjJwqDc9UZGWJvV9EPU7s9hf0GvNu6Nc61bZZKRXT/w640-h366/blog_Kamala+Harris_flag.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></div></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Kamala
Harris, the next Madame Vice President</b>. I can’t imagine the juggernaut schedule
of campaigning, threatened bodily harm, hate mail, and exhaustion she’s moved
through to be with us so that others can stand on her shoulders. So that every
little girl has a place at the table, a voice, vote, and will never have to
say, “I’M SPEAKING,” to any man, or anyone. (<a href="https://bit.ly/3oPuqWh">https://bit.ly/3oPuqWh</a>)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><i>“If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.”</i> ~Thomas Fuller</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><br /></i></span> <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>From the book's Introduction: </i>“This is an idea and project that brought me joy. I want to spread the joy by sharing it with you. The idea came to me while I was trying to find a way to connect with all the people I care about for my 65th birthday. I was as many miles from them as they were from one another. How to connect with all of them brought the idea that I share with you here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meaningful relationships are the treasures of living, and the people in those relationships are the jewels of our lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Although this story is my story, within the personal experience are directions for a craft that can connect or reconnect, rekindle and even lay the way for forgiveness. The basic directions are set apart like stepping stones, blocked in to make them easy to recognize and follow.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I sent Malana a glowing email. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I wanted her to know how much her inspiring idea touched me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I wanted her to know how brilliant she was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Always the generous soul, Malana sent me her book as an early birthday present. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Months later as my 60 birthday approached, I embraced her directions to “connect the jewels in my life.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><b><i>Today's </i>blog post is dedicated to my dear friend, Malana. </b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This spring she left her earth suit to meet her heavenly friends and family. My words gratefully go to all my friends and family who joined me on this adventure. I am grateful to celebrate 64 turns-around-the-sun, I AM!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="color: #666666;">Gift #1. Completion:</span><i>“I’m a big believer in putting things off. In fact, I even put off procrastinating.”</i> ~Lisa Kleypas</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Real life showed up despite all of my enthusiastic intentions four years ago to immediately construct my treasure necklace! The many happy detours included my daughter’s wedding; her pregnancy and; grandson Blake’s arrival. Creativity also happily consumed me while designing and delivering 10 online writing courses for the first time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>The beads and their tender birthday messages waited patiently for me until last week.</i> And I imagine friends and family did too—or I hope so! When things are supposed to happen, they happen. Right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Finally, I can publicly say THANK YOU AGAIN to the friends and family who joined me in this threaded gem adventure while crafting a new story of our relationship. You are most precious and dear to me! (To the new friends encountered over the past four years, know that there’s a new treasure necklace in the process with a forthcoming invitation.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Each days' snail mail delivery brought this lesson to my doorstep to practice as my October 14 birthday approached. I won't lie. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It was tough learning that it was mental flagellation to continue asking, “<i>Why hasn’t ___ replied and sent me a bead or told me they’re not participating?</i>” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In time, I did release the squirrel chatter and found peace. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Intentionally, I waited three weeks for my birthday morning to open and read the contents of the padded envelopes. Lovingly sequestered for 4 years, these treasures filled a large shopping bag. I felt more expectancy than waiting for any Christmas morning! Finally, my 60 birthday arrived. While meditating and breathing, I energetically let my hand touch an envelope. Each one was a precious gift to be opened slowly and reverently.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">May the ripple continue to spread</span></i>.” </b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>~Malana Ashlie</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Each bead and message brought joy and tears over the next two hours of unveilment—this was a process to cherish and slowly savor. Hopefully, Malana’s message and this blog post will inspire you to venture out on a threaded gem adventure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All parts of the threaded gem adventure contained thoughts of love starting with Malana’s original idea to my invitation to family and friends to share a bead and memory to my mom, Clare, who constructed the three treasure necklaces. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mom, her bestie Liz, and I collaborated to design each necklace first by colors. I'm certain that God and the angels joined our creative chats.The chakras inspired the length and assemblage of each one: the longest one represented the lower chakras with red, orange, and yellow beads; the second necklace combined the middle chakras with green and blue beads and; the shortest necklace combined the higher chakra colors with white, silver, and gold beads. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I feel this ONEness when I see my treasure necklace connecting dozens of different colors, textures, and sizes of beads--symbolic of the diversity of people who bless my life. I feel it through the weight of the three colorful separate strands that appear as one. I remember each bead message and the gentle person who shared it with me. I appreciate this beautiful symbol to remind me of ONEness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b><i>Now: </i></b></span>May you also wear the idea and feel ONEness. That's all Malana would want.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I already have the greatest treasure--my friends and family.</span></div>
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Lore Raymondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16319547394150421504noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2020612287313921306.post-66813732133861674222020-09-22T09:59:00.009-04:002020-09-23T05:11:03.417-04:00RBG: A Brief Homage to a sHero's Supreme Life<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Spinning Your Gold Blog: Words that Open Hearts and Inspire
Actions</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizdFDPkFFBXM77oxKgXYQ44KxTiw0MOjI5nf8o2OFAC4v6t4ECsHQZ0yY3jvvZf7DR0PIFvc0ewfnS9BBOFGaHdWZ1KVVaAtG6LSJTGZ-gxHLvvi01iRxH88xzj6HWXaESeWhy9zo2aU35/s960/FB_IMG_1600632644154.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="960" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizdFDPkFFBXM77oxKgXYQ44KxTiw0MOjI5nf8o2OFAC4v6t4ECsHQZ0yY3jvvZf7DR0PIFvc0ewfnS9BBOFGaHdWZ1KVVaAtG6LSJTGZ-gxHLvvi01iRxH88xzj6HWXaESeWhy9zo2aU35/w640-h429/FB_IMG_1600632644154.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">No words. Just three letters. RBG.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">And let's<i> try</i> forming some brief words about this ordinary supersHero.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg (RBG) wrote many briefs during her 27 years of serving our nation as
a Supreme Court Justice (1993 to 2020).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 107%;">For non-lawyer types
like me, “A </span>brief<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> (Old French from Latin “brevis,” short) is a
written </span>legal<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> document used in various </span>legal<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> adversarial
systems that are presented to a </span>court<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> arguing why one party to a particular </span>case<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> should
prevail.”</span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">These briefs helped
change and cement the votes of SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) for longer,
life-changing issues, especially for<i> women</i>. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">There’s no way that the
accomplishments of RBG can be contained in one blog. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, let me be brief. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-z-Vcmu64IEs_13BwGDHewm5sWFvykh1LgxUExoPoXYizJxftHvKjj3LwSByF4Kfp2pUwJHPA0LHOixg50tAOa5tJtWrkjoW-_FrY1RWxwaLHUdznTKoQ6zzijc_q4_odn2e0ReltOpQf/s850/blog_RBG-fight-for-the-things-that-you-care-about-but-do-it-in-a-way-that-will-lead-others-to-ruth-bader-ginsburg-126-89-96.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="850" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-z-Vcmu64IEs_13BwGDHewm5sWFvykh1LgxUExoPoXYizJxftHvKjj3LwSByF4Kfp2pUwJHPA0LHOixg50tAOa5tJtWrkjoW-_FrY1RWxwaLHUdznTKoQ6zzijc_q4_odn2e0ReltOpQf/w640-h302/blog_RBG-fight-for-the-things-that-you-care-about-but-do-it-in-a-way-that-will-lead-others-to-ruth-bader-ginsburg-126-89-96.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b style="text-align: left;"><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Here are highlights that call us to pay homage to an extraordinary woman who left us for a Higher Court on Rosh Hashanah
(one of the holiest days in Judaism), the evening of September 18, 2020:</span></b></p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
you are a woman who has, on your own, signed a lease or bought property, thank
RBG. (Before, a male co-signer was needed.)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
you are a woman who has been able to keep your job while pregnant or if you are
a working mom, thank RBG.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
you are a woman with a credit card in your name only, thank RBG.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
you are a female who has been admitted to a school or college which was once an
“all-male” institution, thank RBG.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNPYTG9QXX48gzxxNsW1M_6n5rvnqRCXvudDj_L16DtK8N0w2xQq7ARgRhUCjoxqF4CK8J_HUunkQNLxjouFhZZMA8a_K-remw_erMCs-pRfqPpyr771eihyphenhyphenGXVlkF1YLmrfjsQ8s6FTjH/s960/FB_IMG_1600511121336.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="726" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNPYTG9QXX48gzxxNsW1M_6n5rvnqRCXvudDj_L16DtK8N0w2xQq7ARgRhUCjoxqF4CK8J_HUunkQNLxjouFhZZMA8a_K-remw_erMCs-pRfqPpyr771eihyphenhyphenGXVlkF1YLmrfjsQ8s6FTjH/w303-h400/FB_IMG_1600511121336.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
you have benefited from Title IX (Protects people from discrimination based on
sex in education programs), thank RBG.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">If you
have benefited from the equal pay laws, thank RBG.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
you are a man who has been covered by your wife’s medical benefits, thank RBG.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
you are a man who has been able to receive survivor’s benefits from Social
Security, thank RBG.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">If
you have appointed a woman to be the executor of your estate, thank RBG.</span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAbIss0GyjTQnLBFpgUkKczb8RZK2cnHN3koTuc7mPf8JvnePJ38XZwCkYLmqm1G9ptOvIoTkv4YYCXy6Ln3_UeR69mAmaCave3U1WSVEvm9k8k4TcgPAlQ0nVogHtUpmiB6QPiEPmfnWs/s720/FB_IMG_1600546438526.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="720" height="594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAbIss0GyjTQnLBFpgUkKczb8RZK2cnHN3koTuc7mPf8JvnePJ38XZwCkYLmqm1G9ptOvIoTkv4YYCXy6Ln3_UeR69mAmaCave3U1WSVEvm9k8k4TcgPAlQ0nVogHtUpmiB6QPiEPmfnWs/w640-h594/FB_IMG_1600546438526.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Two wishes.</span></b></p></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">To </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">all </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Americans, it’s payback time. Not just those who claim to be “Red” or “Blue.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s time to thank Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg.</span></p></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">It’s time to now honor
her dying wish. </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 107%;">Just <i>days before her death</i>, as her strength waned, Ginsburg
dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“My
most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is
installed.” </b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 107%;">This
was included in Bader’s obituary written by National Public Radio’s Nina
Totenberg, likely the best-known Supreme Court reporter in the United States,
who had been friends with Ginsburg for five decades.</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: black; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Wish
#1. May her memory be a revolution.</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Since
we are Ruth-less, let us be <i>ruthless</i> in our determination to
show resistance to naming a new Supreme Court Justice until January with the
new president. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Take
this simple, 10-second step. (No confidential information is needed.)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">SNOPES verifies this to be true:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">If you text RBG to
50409, Resistbot will send a letter to your Senators, from you, <i>opposing</i> the
appointment of a Supreme Court Justice until after the election. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Women
and men owe her a massive debt by expressing gratitude and voting to defend what
she lived her life protecting: Freedom, democracy, and the Constitution.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: times, serif;"> Wish #2. “May</span></b><b><span style="background: white; font-family: times, serif;"> her
memory be for blessing.”</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: times, serif;">Those who die on the Jewish New Year holiday are considered “tzadik,” a title given to the righteous and saintly.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: times, serif;">Heartachingly, millions around the nation and
the world will sorely miss “The Notorious RBG.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Amen</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyWXWFFKwxO96dOi3Lg18fg3gWt12gWPJWXtPQyXN0et-rsvnO2PwHHh_Nxe4v2e1TGVMIE2mn8Iw0bmlOB8w6fMZL4vABaBnL2jRCwtZifOk8NLc24I5ODfCjVDrpkOFumU6lVaUOTBpg/s1080/FB_IMG_1600719269211.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="807" data-original-width="1080" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyWXWFFKwxO96dOi3Lg18fg3gWt12gWPJWXtPQyXN0et-rsvnO2PwHHh_Nxe4v2e1TGVMIE2mn8Iw0bmlOB8w6fMZL4vABaBnL2jRCwtZifOk8NLc24I5ODfCjVDrpkOFumU6lVaUOTBpg/w640-h478/FB_IMG_1600719269211.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>Lore Raymondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16319547394150421504noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2020612287313921306.post-70931781395085654722020-08-26T06:28:00.003-04:002020-08-26T07:26:47.985-04:009 Ways to Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Women's Right to Vote<br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">So today, let's act like it and discuss something bigger than a political candidate or a convention. Let's put COVID-19 news on the back burner.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">With love and gratitude, let's celelebrate the American suffragettes, their global sister activists, and friends --all who worked (and even died) to give women the <i>precious privilege and sacred duty to vote</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">"The United States Congress
passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution granting women full and equal
voting rights on this day in 1920. Every year on August 26, we commemorate this
right with National Women’s Equality Day. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Birth of a Movement</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #351c75;">While in London at the
World Anti-Slavery Convention 1840, several women were denied access to the
convention floor planting the seeds for a women’s rights movement. Lucretia
Mott and Elizabeth Cady Staton, along with Martha Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and
Jane Hunt, set in motion plans for the first woman’s rights convention in
Seneca Falls, New York. Held at Wesleyan Chapel on July 19-20, 1848, the
conference drew 200 women the first day. On the second day, the convention
opened to men, and some did attend.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Resolved, that it is the duty of the women of
this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective
franchise. ~ 9th Resolution of the Seneca Falls Convention 1848.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #351c75;">During the convention,
leaders presented 12 resolutions. They enumerated in the rights that women
should be equal to men socially, economically, legally, and representatively. Of
the resolutions, all but the 9th were approved unanimously. The right to vote
created concern. Many women felt it would cause large numbers of their backers
to withdraw their support. However, after much debate and the support of
abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the 9th resolution also passed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Woman’s suffrage began
in earnest in the United States then. Another advocate, Susan Brownell Anthony,
joined Stanton in 1869 to cre</span></span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">ate the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). Through nearly <i>ten years</i> of persistence and lobbying, the NWSA introduced an amendment in 1878. Despite years of debate and finally to the floor of Congress in 1886, only to be defeated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Ultimately, it would
take <i>another 34 </i>years before a new amendment made it to Congress. For several
years, advocates continued passing the batons. New states entered the union.
Their constitutions included rights for women that states before them never had
– the right to vote. Civil disobedience ensued. Eventually, with women gaining
equality, Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><a href="https://nationaldaycalendar.com/august-26-2020-national-dog-day-national-womens-equality-day-national-webmistress-day-national-cherry-popsicle-day/" target="_blank">-Source: NationalDayCalendar.com</a></span></span></div>
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post on social media; comment and share this blog. (Thank you in advance.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">4. Post <i>positives</i> about your candidate, the election, or voting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #351c75;">5. Learn more about the women’s
civil rights movement and the 19th Amendment. Read to appreciate the suffragettes sHeroes. Say their names like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Alice Paul, Emmeline Pankhurst, Carrie Chapman Catt, Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, Kean, and Millicent Garrett Fawcett</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">.</span></div>
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and learn about the efforts of advocates in your home state. Study Lucy Stone,
Carrie Chapman Catt, or Alice Paul. We’ve done some of the work for you.
Read about these <b><a href="https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-womens-equality-day-august-26/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">5 Notable
Leaders in the Women’s Suffrage Movement</span></a></b>. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></div>
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life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and
all the hopes!</span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">Mehmet Murat ildan, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 25.68px;">Turkish author and playwright</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Ensconced
in the U.S. Constitution, the credible threat is <i>real</i> to this institution established
in 1639. You’ve seen photos of mailboxes and mail trucks carted away; many mailboxes remain though several are locked up.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Feeling like a <i>pinch</i> now, millions already know the subtle
impacts of delayed deliveries or letters and parcels still MIA (missing in action).</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></div>
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happy faces that you and I will never meet in person need the USPS. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">We are all, at some time, dependent on the timely, consistent mail delivery for overseas and
stateside voting not to mention the distribution of checks, medicines, food, and
supplies. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Many seniors or COVID-19 quarantined people don’t have computers or
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Saving
the United States Postal System is not just a nostalgic act. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">It’s much more: It’s a heroic, life-saving action we must now take together!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">It’s payback time. It's time to support our everyday, ordinary heroes who "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Take these six simple steps to become an ordinary postal hero:</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1. Say 'thank you' to your postal carrier.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Let
them know with a note or a face-to-face meeting that you’re concerned for their
welfare and livelihood. Let them know how much you appreciate their service and
what you’re doing to support them. Feeling generous? Leave a gift card in the thank
you note. (Expect tears. My postal carrier cried when I did this weeks ago, and then wrote <i>me</i>
a thank you note!)<b></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2. Buy stamps.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Some
of our nation’s birthing pains came with the 1774 revolt against the Stamp Act from
our then-Mother County, the United Kingdom. Seems when it
came to taxing the colonist’s daily ritual and luxury of sipping tea, <i>that was too much</i>.
We know how the Boston Tea Party ended.<b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">It seems ironic that we’d now buy stamps to help restore (and ensure) the freedom of sending and receiving mail. Did you know that much of the funding for the USPS comes from the purchase of
these emblems of communication?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">If you can’t order stamps online, you can ask your postal
carrier to do this. Don’t use snail mail? Consider changing. Send letters
and postcards to your representatives or clients, friends, and family. Buy online <a href="https://store.usps.com/store/results/stamps/_/N-9y93lv#content" target="_blank">here</a>.
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">3. Become an armchair activist if you aren’t already.</span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">There’s a grassroots
group that’s working to save the USPS. They share information about direct actions
like signing petitions. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; line-height: 107%;">You can
find more information about their efforts and how to get involved. Get information at <a href="https://act.moveon.org/survey/save-the-post-office-from-trump" target="_blank">Save The Post Office</a>.</span> </span><br />
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numbers in your phone.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Demand
they take these urgent steps to protect the USPS:</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">* Fully
fund it; right now, it’s subject to partisan whims as a political weapon</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">* Pass
legislation to further to prevent further (and future) sabotage</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">* Demand
Postmaster Louis DeJoy to reverse the damage he’s already done.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">* Investigate
DeJoy’s conflict of interests; direct action is needed now! </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">-Source: Robert Reich</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></div>
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early can help ensure that the USPS is not overwhelmed at the last minute. The
website <a href="http://vote.org/">Vote.org</a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> provides a clear summary of early-voting rules by state.</span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">“Quietly
now, with a pure perception of wholeness, I pray for our United States Postal
Service. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">May
the men and women of this institution feel valued and on purpose with their
work, and may they have a sense of joy in fulfilling their calling. </span></span></div>
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with an air of great blessing, and may the awesome responsibility of this
wonderful, connecting service be honored and upheld. </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></span></div>
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correspondence are finding their way into the hands of people who matter to me.
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">Please, </span></b></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">open your heart and take one inspired action </span></b></span><b style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;"><i>today</i>. </span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">You may recall that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">at the Vancouver Peace Summit in September 2009, His Holiness
the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Dalai Lama</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> declared that “The </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">world will be saved</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> by the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Western
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crashed around even this holiest of holy souls for his ‘feminist’ statement as
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Well, I’ll take a cue
from him and boldly declare that <i>she’s</i> arrived to represent --for this slice of
time -- all western and eastern women and to help save the world. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Announced yesterday by Joe Biden, presumptive Democratic candidate for POTUS, <i>she’s </i>the vice-presidential candidate for the November 3 election in the <i>still </i>greatest country on earth.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>She is Kamala Devi Harris. </b></span></span><br />
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name is pronounced “comma-la,” like the punctuation mark,”
Kamala Harris writes in her 2018 autobiography, <i>The Truths We Hold.” </i>It means ‘lotus flower,’ which is the symbol of significance in Indian culture. A lotus grows underwater, its flowers rising above the surface while the roots are planted firmly in the river bottom.”</span></div>
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or opinions, it’s a her-storical moment to be celebrated by every woman, of every
age, everywhere, and not dissected or dismissed. </i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Harris now rises like
the lotus flower from the mud and muck of our times to help us see and embrace
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is the third woman to run as a vice-presidential candidate for a major U.S. party.
It’s unimaginable to believe that only four women have found space and recognition on
America’s national ballot after 200 years of elections!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In 1984 Geraldine “Gerry”
Ferraro (D-NY) </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">became the first female vice-presidential nominee
representing an American major political party. She joined Walter Mondale (D-MN) for a presidential bid losing to Ronald Regan. Sarah Palin, the Republican governor of Alaska, was second as the running mate of Senator John McCain (R-AZ) in 2008.</span> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">“Service is the rent your pay for room on this earth.” -Shirley Chisholm (1924 -2005)</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Let’s not forget Shirley
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Her-story shows that ‘In the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">1972 United States presidential
election</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">, she became the first black candidate for a major party’s
nomination for </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">President of the United States</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">, and the first
woman to run for the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Democratic Party’s</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> presidential
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representation of female leadership, contrast it with population facts: The population<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span>female<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> (% of total)
in the </span>United States<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> was reported at 50.52 % in </span>2019<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, according to the
World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially
recognized sources, according to TardingEconomics.com. </span></span><br />
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to 162 million males and 169 females—<i>7 million more women!</i></span></span></div>
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- Born in Oakland, CA, she imminently qualifies as a western and eastern woman.
The sacred soil of her beginning originated in diverse parents with an Indian-born
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suffragettes</i> - With the global pandemic occupying much, if not all, of our
personal and media attention, let’s not forget that 2020 is the <a href="https://www.womensvote100.org/learn" target="_blank">100<sup>th</sup> anniversary</a> of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women’s constitutional right to vote. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Did you know that on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment was certified into the U.S. Constitution, <i>forever </i>protecting American women’s right to vote? So, it makes sense that August is National Women’s Suffrage Month. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">(Sadly, <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/08/black-women-continued-fighting-for-vote-after-19th-amendment/#close" target="_blank">African-American women</a> didn’t receive this voting right until 1965, and the unjust struggle remains in many states.)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">It wasn’t easy to secure a woman’s right to vote. Hard-fought and often bloody battles led by the-then radical American suffragettes won the war for equality with support from g</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">lobal sister activists and other progressives.</span><br />
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working on getting the white, male-dominated federal government to allow women to
vote. Giants of voting equality included names like Susan Brownell Anthony, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">Alice Paul, Emmeline
Pankhurst, Carrie Chapman Catt, Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, Kean, and Millicent
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<br />Lore Raymondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16319547394150421504noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2020612287313921306.post-55670405299731018642020-07-22T08:02:00.002-04:002020-07-22T10:16:08.677-04:00Celebrate Christmas in July<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In many parts of the planet, sweltering temps
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Like me, over the past four months, perhaps you’ve been
challenged to keep “cool” with COVID-19 and the tsunami of partisan actions
and non-actions. Maybe you’ve felt the cool darkness of stepping into the shadow
of sadness caused by today’s current events and personal feelings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As my only grandchild, Blake (5) wisely said, “Too
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Turn up the exterior lights while stepping back into the
inner Light to remember </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Christmas—A Holy Season of Light, Love, and Peace</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">.</span><br />
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in July, a celebration started in <a href="https://www.southernliving.com/christmas/how-did-christmas-july-start" target="_blank">1933 at a girls’ camp in North Carolina</a>?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1. Calling loved ones and wishing them a very Merry
Christmas in July!</span></div>
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and toiletries to a homeless or women’s shelter (socks and underwear are always
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country, leaders, medical and frontline heroes plus anyone quarantined or hospitalized
in the USA and around the globe. </span></div>
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s’ mores or Key lime pie vs. pumpkin pie or a watermelon vs. cranberry salad. (You
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">There’s a good reason as this 2,000-year-old treat can always cool and soothe the hot summer blues, body, and creative soul. Marco Polo returned to Italy from his Far East expeditions with a recipe for sherbert. Seems Catherine de Medici of Italy later enjoyed her “cream ice” in 1553. And it didn’t take long before everyone could buy a scoop starting in 1660!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Did you also know that your favorite ice cream flavor speaks volumes about your personality?</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">To verify this, there’s <a href="http://www.rd.com/food/fun/hidden-personality-traits-revealed-ice-cream/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">research</a> conducted by neurologist Dr. Alan Hirsch, founder of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation. “Seems Hirsch uses various standardized psychiatric test results to make statistical correlations, explaining that the same part of the brain (the limbic lobe) is responsible for both personality traits and food preference.”</span><br /><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 27.6px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Hirsch says the taste for your favorite ice cream is set during childhood and tends to remain constant throughout your life.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As an author, this invites me to consider myself and story characters –not to mention family and friends- in this new, sensory light. Hmmm…I wonder what ice cream my 3x Great Uncle Liberty Raymond killed at the Battle of Fort Wagner in the Civil War enjoyed as a child on his New Hampshire apple orchard?</span></span><br /><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s fun to wonder what other sheroes enjoyed like <a href="http://ww.judson.edu/about-judson/heritage/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ann Hasseltine Judson, Julia Tarrant Barron,</a> Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Golda Meir, and Mother Teresa. I’m also curious about the favorite ice cream flavors of writers like Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Rumi, Isaak Dinesen, Hafiz, or Peace Pilgrim. </span></span></span></div>
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justice, peace, and the healing of racism.</span></span></div>
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prayer community- </b>You’re invited to my online Facebook event, <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1466431220207891/?active_tab=discussion" target="_blank">WAVE-Praying Together Matters</a></b>, to pause and pray each day from June 4 to July 4—Independence
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this month-long “event,” you’re called to set the alarm to different times each day and pray, however, and to whomever. What’s essential is that you enter your private, sacred, and silent space. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">That simple. That powerful. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">RSVP now to <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1466431220207891/?active_tab=discussion" target="_blank">WAVE-Praying Together Matters</a></b>. (Women as Visionaries Everywhere & Friends)</span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">4. </span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">Post a prayer-full meme</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>- </b>Remember Meister Eckhart Tolle’s wisdom, “If the only prayer you ever say in your life is thank
you, it will be enough.” On social media, share gratitude (or peace) memes and quotes
for how you see the world; this is expressing robust <i>advance appreciation and gratitude</i>. You don’t have to wait for the good to appear. See it happening <i>now</i>. Use the hashtag #PrayingTogetherMatters.</span></div>
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prayer. Be the light. - </b>As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fiercely and
non-violently demonstrated in his life, “Darkness</span><span style="background: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Did you know that May 30 </span></b><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">is National Creativity Day?</span></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Creativity is an act of defiance.”</i> -Twyla Tharp</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Creativity is a wild mild and a disciplined eye.” -Dorothy Parker</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”</i> -Albert Einstein</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made by you.” – Elizabeth Gilbert</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Creativity is one of the highest transmissions of love.”</i>-Suzy Kassem</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” -Scott Adams</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”</i> -Albert Einstein</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">“Creativity is just connecting things.” -Steve Jobs</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>“To be creative is to look madness in the eye and challenge it to a spitting contest.”</i> -River Fairchild</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Create with the heart, build with the mind.” -Criss Jami</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i> “Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.”</i> -Dee Hock</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“When people ask me how did I get so creative, I tell them it’s because I ate paste as a child.” -Anon</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>“That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.”</i> -Ray Bradbury</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.” -George Bernard Shaw</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">“<i>To create a work of art is to create the world.”</i> -Wassily Kandinsky</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” –Sylvia Plath</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>“There is no innovation or creativity without failure. Period.”</i> –Brene Brown</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” -Pablo Picasso</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Don’t<i> think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy.”</i> -Ray Bradbury</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Negativity is the enemy of creativity.”<i> </i>-David Lynch</span><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”</i> -Maya Angelou</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” -John W. Gardner</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.”</i> -Dieter F. Uchtdorf</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” -Pablo Picasso</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>“The creative adult is the child who survived.”</i> -Ursula K. LeGuin</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> “What if the very reason you were created was to be creative?” -Michelle Dennis Evans</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Writing reawakens my childhood fantasy more than anything, opening up creative worlds.”</i> -Leo Tolstoy</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.” -Virginia Woolf</span></span></div>
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Anniversary of your furry ones? </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sasha Kitty, my precious muse, left her fursuit <i>five years</i> ago today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Through a kind and gentle demeanor, she inspired
early morning writing that landed in half a dozen books. After she died in 2015 and still grieving, I wrote a story that appeared in </span><i style="font-size: 16pt;">365 Moments of Grace</i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, a collaborative work that became a #1 Amazon International Bestseller.
(Published July 27, 2016, by DandiLove Unlimited.)</span></span></div>
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the vet’s office that night drowning in a sea of grief. The decision was made
to end Sasha Kitty’s suffering. While struggling to drive home through
torrential tears, I heard, “I left something for you.” It was Sasha Kitty. She repeated herself two
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morning, still grieving, and still wondering what the “something” was that she had
left for me, my soul craved comforting. I started my spiritual practice of
Divine Dialogue Writing. As I had done for years, I invoked the angels, asking:
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the Doreen Virtue Angel Cards, I pulled the <i>All Is Well</i> card with this message
from Archangel Jeremiel: “<i>Everything is happening exactly as it is supposed
to be with hidden blessings you will soon understand.”</i> At that moment, Mom
walked into my bedroom. She wondered what angel message I’d received. So I
showed her, and she exclaimed that she’d got the <i>exact</i> same angel oracle card that night!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Repeating the same question as before, I drew another card, and got <i>Hello from Heaven! </i>with
Archangel Azrael. His message: “<i>Your loved ones in Heaven are doing fine. Let go of worries and embrace their loving blessings.” </i>A quiet whisper followed: “<i>Sasha
wants to work with your guardian angels to help you be peaceful, so watch for
other signs from Heaven.”</i></span></span></div>
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I pulled the </span><i style="font-size: 16pt;">All is Well</i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> card again. “You’re too funny, Sasha Kitty,” I
mused. “The </span><i style="font-size: 16pt;">All is Well</i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> card was just returned to the deck; I’ve had it sitting
on my desk since you left. Now it shows up again! Did you know it’s the two-week
anniversary of your new cat adventure?”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“I know,”</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> I heard her whisper.</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I miss you.”</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“I know,”</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> she said.</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Hope all is well.”</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“It is. Chirp.”</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> (Her sweet acknowledgment sound.)</span></span></div>
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“something” Sasha Kitty left for me? It was the unwrapped gift of knowing that life
continues after death. She’s</span><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: 16pt;"> just in
another room--for where there’s love, communication continues…even with the
furry, four-footed ones!</span></span></div>
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Blessings</i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> offered this timely message: “</span><i style="font-size: 16pt;">Blessings are showering your
life.”</i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> It comes from the </span><i style="font-size: 16pt;">Sacred Traveler Oracle Cards</i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> by Denise Linn.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think not. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">How about Divine synchronicity?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">From the other side of the Rainbow Bridge, Sasha Kitty
continues to bless me with happy memories as we connect through Divine Dialogue Writing. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">Her presence inspires me to remember, reflect, and write something new.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><i><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Let’s write something together like we
used to do. What do you say?”</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>“Purr-fect.”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><i><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I hope you like this blog. I pray you crossed over the Rainbow Bridge five years ago, knowing that you were deeply loved.”</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background: white;">Feeling enraged and gutted after seeing new COVID-19 death and infection numbers, I wanted to respond by offering <i>my </i>brilliant, written advice for dealing with CV19. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background: white;">HA!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">* I started to say how you should be <i>and</i> what you should do.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">* I started to become the “know it all” that I
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I started to “should” on you, which no one enjoys, including me!</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">After smugly reading the first draft, the Inner Whisperer said,</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background: white;"><span class="textexposedshow">"Stop. </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">Does this really serve or help anyone?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background: white;"><span class="textexposedshow">"No," I replied to myself.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background: white;"><span class="textexposedshow">So, I’ll keep the pontificating essay for my eyes
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Instead, here's what my heart <i>now</i> yearns for during Week 12 of self-quarantine--it’s the gentle, self-care reminder that guarantees PEACE
from everything--four words of advice for CV19:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="textexposedshow"><b>YES, UNPLUG TO PLUG IN!</b></span><br />
<br /><span class="textexposedshow">Taking this advice, my mask, journal, and I will visit a
favorite Florida beach at sunrise on Friday morning; it’s the first time since
early March.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Then maybe I’ll...</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">* </span>Sit in the sugar sand and get grounded.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">* </span>Write a sweet gratitude list for another
disease-free and DIS-ease free day.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="textexposedshow">* Shift my negative energy to a positive vibration.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">* </span>Unplug.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If you conceive another child, Mrs. Lelash, you could
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This was not the news she hoped for at her annual checkup
appointment. She hoped for encouragement and support in her quest to have a
second child. Why? She was crystal clear that her daughter Joan Marie, now two
years old, would <i>not </i>be an only child. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">My great-grandmother, Magdalene Jane <i>Watt </i>Esplin with my grandmother, Isabella Marie (also Ella or Mamie), Arbroath, Scotland, 1906</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Rewind. Fear, sadness, and loneliness were often the childhood
companions of little Isabella Marie or “Ella,” the only child born on Tuesday, September 13, 1904, to working Scottish parents. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Life compounded these feelings
when separated from her father Thomas Campbell Esplin. He preferred the warmer climes of Calcutta,
India to Arbroath, Scotland’s soggy weather. Work called him to
India’s jute mills as a weaving foreman.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Hope started to shine years later when at 17, she boarded the
S.S. Columbia, with her mother bound for the USA. Like millions of other dreamers, they passed through Ellis Island to live with Ella’s Aunt Linda and cousins in</span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Beverly, </span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Massachusetts.
Sadly, their family reunion was short-lived as Ella’s mother, Magdalene Jane, later met heavenly angels at 43 years young.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">My maternal grandparents on their wedding day, William Joseph Lelash and Ella Marie <i>Esplin </i>Lelash, Monday, July 11, 1927.</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Life’s tempests like the ones during her Atlantic crossing carried a now 20-something Ella from the east to the west coast of sunny California. It was there that she would accept a life-changing appointment--an <i>all-day date</i> with my grandfather, William Joseph Lelash, 13 years her senior. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">It seems he lost track of time, showing her his favorite southern California sites. Only at the end of the day did he realize he had not offered his date anything to eat or drink!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They eventually married on 7-11-27.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Fast forward. “You’re pregnant again?” asked my
grandfather.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“I am,” my grandmother softly replied. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then again, with more joy, “I AM!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Though faced with the possibility of dying, there was no choice
other than to have this much-wanted second baby. You see, these soon-to-be
parents were devout, practicing Catholics. She had what she most
sought: the blessing to have another child.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Cloistered Poor Clare Nuns gathered in the garden</span>.</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">One day a letter arrived asking for a financial donation to the Poor Clare Nuns of Oakland, CA. They, like many, found themselves struggling through the Great Depression. As a cloistered community, these spiritual, Catholic women
remained within the convent’s walls for life. Only two nuns were designated to
go “out in the world” gathering food, supplies, and medicines. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">My grandmother responded to their financial request with great
faith and hope. She took precious few household dollars to send to the Poor
Clare Nuns and requested prayers for her unborn child.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The Hotel St. Catherine, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Now 1932, the Great Depression raged on to finally end in 1939.
Still, life for the Lelash Family on Santa Catalina Island (Named for Saint
Catherine of Alexandria) offered a simple, idyllic time removed from the mainland’s
more challenging economic struggles. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">The family of three, soon-to-be four, gratefully enjoyed meals provided by my grandfather’s employer. He served as an assistant general
manager of the <a href="https://www.islapedia.com/index.php?title=Saint_Catherine_Hotel,_Avalon,_Santa_Catalina_Island" target="_blank">Hotel St. Catherine</a> (1928-34), which enjoyed guests from 1918-1966 until demolition made room for another luxury hotel. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The dining room of the Hotel St. Catherine, Santa Catalina Island, California, where my grandfather worked as an assistant general manager</span></b>.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Imagine, the hotel’s dining room could seat 1,200 for dinner!
This once enchanting, carless getaway offered foreign dignitaries, and
Hollywood celebrities escape by plane, yacht, or ferry from public scrutiny.
Bison, cattle, and sheep roamed the sparsely populated, pristine island. The 1930 Santa Catalina Census
Records reported that the animals outnumbered the 1,897 residents.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“It’s time! It’s time!” yelled my grandmother in her wise woman’s knowingness of “my-water-is-breaking-the baby-is-coming.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Let’s get you to the airport!” replied my worried
grandfather, despite his deep faith in God and the angels. </span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Note: Once upon a time, it was Santa (Saint) Catalina Island; now it's Catalina Island.</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">While in labor, Ella courageously flew the 22 miles over the
channel to Long Beach, California, in a small passenger plane. Upon
landing, she traveled to White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles, the “City
of Angels.” I’m sure my grandfather said many rosaries until arriving
there on the much longer ferry ride to the mainland!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Thanks to Dr. Ralph Thompson, Clare Ann Lelash arrived on Friday, May
13, 1932, at 5:45 am, weighing 6 pounds, 14 oz. Blond curls and hazel-green
eyes highlighted the cherub’s rosebud mouth. My grandmother chose the name
“Clare” in appreciation for the prayers to the angels by the nuns to make Clare’s delivery a healthy one. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">The arrival of Ella's second daughter now guaranteed that her
daughter, Joan Marie, would never live life as an only child as she had endured. Ella was
grateful, relieved, and happy!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As her second daughter grew, my grandmother wanted to thank the Poor Clare
Nuns for their diligent prayers. She sought an appointment to introduce them to
their very own angel, “Baby Clare.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">She bundled the toddler up and flew to Oakland, CA, from Santa
Catalina Island to make the introduction. Upon arrival, Clare was announced and
then placed on a turn style in the wall that swiveled from the public reception
area to the inner convent area. No one other than the nuns, priests or doctors
were allowed inside the convent walls. (Typically mail along with donations of
food, clothing, and money were placed on the turn style.) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Years later, my grandmother shared the story of how she happily listened to what sounded like an orchestra of joy! These sounds came
from the nuns inside the convent who were not mothers, but who would become "spiritual mothers" to her second daughter forever. Through thick
convent walls, the “Ooh’s! and Ahh’s” mixed with laughter faintly chimed like the church bells that called the nuns to meals and vespers. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Much later, the turn style swiveled around. Finally, Baby Clare came
into view as the nuns returned her to an anxious and relieved mother.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">And what a sight! Pinned medals of Saint Clare and other Saint’s
blanketed the baby’s cotton gown. Each medal reflected a Poor Clare Nun’s
prayer for “their” child’s continued health, wealth, and happiness.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Now. Karen Goldman explains, “The angels hold their hands
around us like children cupping candles. They protect us gently lest our flame
goes out when the wind is strong.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The many prayers to the angels “to hold their hands around
us (Baby Clare)” from my Grandmother Ella, Grandfather William, and the
Poor Clare Nuns ensured the healthy birth and protection of Clare--now soon to celebrate her 88 successful turn-around-the sun.</span></span></div>
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a pure heart to help us grow and to guide us in living our best life...this
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Throughout life, Clare’s presence and kind, generous efforts
invite strangers and, all those who know this back story, to describe her as an
ANGEL—and truly one who arrived by Divine Appointments. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">My siblings, Cathy and Michael, and I agree. We lovingly refer
to mom as our “Angel.”</span></span></span><br />
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<em style="color: #351c75;"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">About Lore (like “story”) Raymond</span></span></b></em></div>
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<em><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Lore is the eldest of three children born to Clare and Richard Raymond.</span></span></em><br />
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<em><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">She is also</span></span></em><em><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> a transformational thought leader and
bestselling co-author, teacher, and book coach. Four books are set for
publication in 2020-21, inspired by her world travels.</span></span></em><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">In 2008, a Peruvian shaman bestowed a sacred
condor feather and the title of “chacaruna”--a bridgekeeper--while
co-leading a trip together. He challenged Lore to help people express their
authentic power and messages.</span><em><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">She now emboldens clients to discover their
authentic voices and then translate the information into books and other channels.
Her intuitive wisdom finds expression in sacred service for those stuck or
reluctant to write or create.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">S<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">till thriving after 14 years,
Lore facilitates the monthly Women’s Divine Dialogue Writing Circle in Tampa
Bay, FL.; here, her creation of the Divine Dialogue Writing System TM is taught
and practiced.</span></span></span></div>
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years with global sojourns elsewhere! Lore also holds two Masters degrees from
American University, Washington, D.C. (Human Resources), and; Framingham State
College, Framingham, MA (Educati</span>on).<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Meet Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, the German-Dutch diarist of Jewish origin, and teenage sHero. Little did Anne know that the prophetic diary entry (above) made <i>before</i> going into hiding would come true.</span></div>
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Achterhuis</span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> in the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Dutch language,</span><span style="background: white;"> English: </span></span><span lang="EN" style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The <i>Secret Annex</i></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">), is one of the world’s best-known books and inspired several plays and films. It’s been translated into 70 different languages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Instead, please take inspiration from Anne Frank to see
why it’s critically important to write now…</span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">right now! </i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">She dreamed of being a famous writer after listening to a government radio broadcast seeking letters and diaries of the war to bring criminals to justice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Her timeless and encouraging messages linger for anyone to consider, whether you think <i>you are</i> or <i>are not</i> a writer.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">2. </b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Write to give yourself a self-care safety valve to release the many emotions of fear, anxiety, stress, despair, and anger.</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">3. </b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Be brave like Anne and write every day in a journal! Set a timer for 18 minutes or scribble on a notepad placed in different rooms. This applies to children!</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">5. </b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Writing brings hope to the surface and keeps it present. Anne wanted to go to Hollywood--and she did in ways she could have never dreamed through the numerous plays and movies produced posthumously. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Like Anne, imagine BIG and write down your epic, seemingly unattainable future wishes!</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Future Women’s Writing Adventures & Retreats</span></b></div>
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do anything, but I am literally begging you to listen to us healthcare workers
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">On today’s Full Pink Super Moon, <i>this face</i> greeted me on my Facebook newsfeed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Macias’ tear-stained, glistening face represents the face of
thousands of medical heroes struggling with the overwhelm and the onslaught of COVID-19.
At a glance, it tells a partial story of the pain, fear, suffering, and exhaustion that she and her colleagues experience <i>every day</i> at work. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Do you see the worn, almost-wound-like area on her nose? Imagine feeling this wear and tear on your body and soul. <i>It's truly a badge of courage.</i></span></span></div>
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action here’s information I’ve gathered and learned from two weeks of
mask-making with my mom—a fearless sHero in her own right who at 88-years-young
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There are six major kinds of masks with different levels of protection and
degrees of sewing skill (see image below). Our pocket mask is made for family, friends, and surgical
nurses who add a medical (or other filter material) inside the pocket.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">*</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> My Tampa Bay group is the </span><a href="https://bit.ly/2X7Rswd" style="font-size: 14pt;" target="_blank">Corona Masks for Medical Heroes</a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> (4.6K+ members
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mom is an expert seamstress who, for decades, sewed lined drapes, tablecloths, and dresses for every benchmark in my life, including a wedding dress. I’m an enthusiastic assistant who cuts, pins, and irons whatever is needed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Know that there’s a pattern available for <i>every skill level</i>. So be bold and sew one mask. If that doesn’t work, sew another type! Most of all, don’t give up. People’s lives are in the balance. That’s why it’s crucial to join a mask-making group--<i>you’re not alone.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">After watching three videos and trying several patterns, mom and I
use this video tutorial to make a <a href="https://bit.ly/2xQL4yF" target="_blank">cloth pocket mask</a> which is more effective than wearing
only a 2-sided cotton mask or bandana; you can add a medical filter, dishtowel
fabric and/or paper towels folded to size for more added protection.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Everything and almost anything is being used for masks since the CDC suggested that everyone wear a mask when outside the home--bandanas, tee-shirts, leggings, plastic bags, and more!</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Love from Momma Clare with our first batch of masks made for St. Anthony’s Hospital, St. Pete, FL</span></b></td></tr>
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cotton fabric, 8” wide and 9” long (for 3 pleats); we also use
1” wide x 7” long strips of bathing suit liner for the <i>ear loops</i>.
It’s light, soft, stretchy, and can handle multiple washes! We tried wearing a mask with the recommended 1/4” elastic and promptly took it off after only 20 minutes. That’s us.</span><br />
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soft on the face and ears--a must when you’re wearing it for a long time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">The cloth mask provides protection for the
filter so that it can be used multiple times; otherwise, CDC and some hospital
guidelines suggest tossing away the paper mask as often as every 20-30 minutes,
or at the end of the day.</span></span></div>
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oven for 30 min, or hot water vapor from boiling water for 10 mins., are
additional effective decontamination methods." -</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781738/"><b><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Annals of Occupational Hygiene</span></b></a><b><u><span style="background: white;"> </span></u></b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">The purpose of this blog post is to offer some laughter. Hopefully, you might grin or giggle for a commercial break from our "new normal."</span></span></div>
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feeling overwhelmed and perplexed while trying to understand (and learn) the
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bombarded me while listening to briefings, reading articles, and watching videos--w</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">ords like </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">contact tracing</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">, </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">coronado</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">, </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">fast
track testing</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">, </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">herd immunity</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">, PPE, and </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">under-responders</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">. And what’s
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Words matter. So, for fun, I keep a list of new and familiar
terms to better inform my writing. The list you're reading is perfectly imperfect, an eclectic mix from different sources, dictionaries, hashtags, posts, and my own understanding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My hope is that this mini-dictionary now helps you better navigate the tsunami of our “new normal"!</span></div>
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“the tip, point, vertex, summit, climax, peak.” Concerning COVID-19, the <i>apex</i>
can be used to refer to the highest numbers of cases in a state or county,
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The <i>CDC </i>is a U.S. federal agency based in Atlanta, Georgia.
According to its mission statement, the CDC: <em>… works 24/7 to protect
America from health, safety, and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S.
Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or
preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><em><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Community spread</span></em><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> is the spread
of a disease where the infection source is unknown.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">According to the CDC, many sources of COVID-19 are due to exposure
to a returned traveler who was infected.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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being easily communicated (spread) or transmitted.” COVID-19 is a contagious
(infectious) disease.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Contact
tracing</span></i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> is
finding out all the people who have come into direct contact with a person
infected with a disease. Quarantining such people (known as <i>contacts</i>)
and isolating them, if they become infected, helps slow the spread of the
disease.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Do you see the daffodil’s corona--the cup-shaped or trumpet-shaped outgrowth at the center?</b></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">corona</span></span></b><br />
<i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Corona </span></i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">comes
from the l</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">ate 19th century: from Spanish <i>La
Corona</i>, literally ‘the crown,’ originally a proprietary name with several
meanings:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">* ASTRONOMY-the rarefied
gaseous envelope of the sun and other stars. The sun’s corona is normally
visible only during a total solar eclipse when it is seen as an irregularly
shaped pearly glow surrounding the darkened disk of the moon.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">* PHYSICS -the glow
around a conductor at high potential.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Noun: corona
discharge; plural noun: corona discharges</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">a small circle of light seen around the sun or
moon, due to diffraction by water droplets.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">* ANATOMY-a part of the
body resembling or likened to a crown.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">* BOTANY-the cup-shaped
or trumpet-shaped outgrowth at the center of a daffodil or narcissus flower.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">coronado</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">According to the </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Urban Dictionary</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">, a coronado is
someone who spreads the coronavirus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">coronalingus</span></b></span><br />
<i style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Coronalingus, </span></i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">according to the <i>Urban Dictionary</i>, is sex
during the coronavirus time of social distancing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Coronavirus</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> refers to any of the various
RNA-containing spherical viruses of the family Coronaviridae, including several
that cause acute respiratory illnesses.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Notable
types of <i>coronavirus</i> are SARS, MERS, and COVID-19.
COVID-19 is popularly referred to as <i>(the) coronavirus</i> or corona
or short. COVID-19 is referred to as the novel coronavirus because it is a new
(novel) virus (i.e., it hasn’t been detected before). <i>Novel coronavirus</i> can
be abbreviated as nCoV. When looked at under a microscope, coronaviruses
appear to be surrounded by a spiky array thought to look like a <i>corona</i>,
or a crown-like shape, hence the name <i>coronavirus.</i></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">COVID-19 is a highly infectious respiratory disease
caused by a <i>new</i> coronavirus. The disease was discovered in China in December
2019 and has since spread around the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><em><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">COVID</span></em><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> is short
for the <em>coronavirus disease</em>. The number 19 refers to the fact
that the disease was first detected in 2019. The scientific name of the virus
that causes <em>COVID-19</em> is<em> severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2</em>, abbreviated as <em>SARS-CoV-2</em>.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">COVID-19 is one of seven types of coronavirus,
including the ones that cause severe diseases like the Middle East respiratory
syndrome (MERS) and sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). The other
coronaviruses cause most of the colds that affect us during the year but aren’t
a severe threat to otherwise healthy people.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">covidiot</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A <i>covidiot </i>according to the <i>Urban Dictionary</i>,
and r<span style="background: white; color: black;">elating
to the 2020 COVID-19 virus,</span> <span style="background: white; color: black;">is someone who ignores the warnings regarding
public health or safety.</span> <span style="background: white; color: black;">A person who hoards goods, denying them from their
neighbor.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Covidiots during recent Cherry Blossom times in Washington, D.C.</b></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">*epidemic</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">An <i>epidemic</i>
is a temporary prevalence of a disease spreading from person to person in a
the locality where that disease is not permanently prevalent.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">*epidemiology</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Epidemiology </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">is the branch of
medicine dealing with the incidence and prevalence of the disease in large
populations and with the detection of the source and cause of epidemics of
infectious disease.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">*epidemiologist</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">An<i> epidemiologist<b> </b></i>is
a person who studies or is an expert in epidemiology.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">*exponential</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">When a disease, such as COVID-19, spreads exponentially,
that generally means the number of cases of infection increase steadily but
rapidly. Without containment, such <em>exponential</em> spread
results in a large number of infections, even when an area has a small number
of cases, to begin with.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fast track</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
<i>testing </i>is now being developed so that you can test for COVID-19 at home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><em><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Flatten the curve</span></em><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">means slowing the
spread of an epidemic disease so that the capacity of the healthcare system
doesn’t become overwhelmed. The curve represents the number of cases over time,
and flattening that curve means preventing a massive surge of new cases in a short
period.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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“Grandparents Against Dying for Economy”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>hand sanitizer </b>(see sanitizer)</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Wikipedia explains that<i>
“Hand sanitizer</i> is a liquid or gel generally used to decrease infectious
agents on the hands. Formulations of the alcohol-based type are preferable to
handwashing with soap and water in most situations in the healthcare setting</span>.”</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">handwashing</span></b></div>
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an essential, lifesaving new normal routine of sanitizing your hands several
times a day for 20 seconds; the soap breaks down the protein covering the
coronavirus molecule.</span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Herd immunity</span></i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> is the immunity or resistance to a particular
infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high
percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the
infection</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">hero</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> (see sHero)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Perhaps Superman aka Christopher Reeve offers the best
definition: “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere
and endure despite overwhelming obstacles.”</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Wikipedia explains that
“in narratology and comparative mythology, the monomyth, or the <i>hero's
journey</i> is the common template of a broad category of tales and lore that
involves a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a
victory, and then comes home changed or transformed.”</span></div>
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an acronym for “I stand with that woman from Michigan.” It refers to the social
media response for Governor Gretchen Whitmer who was called “that woman in
Michigan” by POTUS; it came while he directed Vice President Michael Pence
not to speak to her and other Democratic governors until they were “more
appreciative” of the Federal government’s relief efforts. </span></div>
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immune response, also referred to as <em>immune-compromised</em> or </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/immunodeficiency" target="_blank"><em><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; text-decoration: none;">immunodeficient</span></em></a><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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(see herd immunity)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/immunity" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Immunity</span></i></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> is the state of being immune from
(“protected from a disease”) or insusceptible to a particular disease. The condition permits either natural or acquired resistance to disease. Humans
don’t currently have <i>immunity</i> to COVID-19.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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that to <i>intubate</i> means “to <span style="background: white; color: #222222;">insert
a tube into a hollow body part, especially the trachea for ventilation.”</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">Merriam Webster Dictionary</span></i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"> states that”<i>
isolation</i> is the action of isolating</span><b><span style="background: white; border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; padding: 0in;"> </span></b><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none; color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; padding: 0in;">or<b> </b></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">the condition of being isolated.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Synonyms include aloneness, insulation, seclusion, segregation, separateness, and solitude. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">With more than one-fifth of the
world’s population affected by </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://news.sky.com/topic/covid-19-8518" target="_blank"><strong><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">COVID-19</span></strong></a></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">,
there are diverse definitions as to what is deemed essential in any given state
or country as it goes into <i>lockdown</i>. For example, <i>lockdown</i>
exceptions put in place include New Hampshire believing flower shops among
the essentials for services to funeral homes. California and Washington deemed
pot shops and workers in the market’s supply chain necessities. In France,
shops that sell cheese, pastries, and wine remain open. Meanwhile, Italy enforces
the strictest lockdown rules, including only food vendors and pharmacies, to stay
open.</span></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">#masketeers</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><b>#maskinista</b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">#millionmaskchallenge</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Disease <i>mitigation</i>
measures are taken to slow the spread of infection. <em>Quarantine</em>, <em>isolation</em>,
and <em>social distancing</em> are forms of mitigation.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Washing your hands with soap for at least 20 seconds is one the important thing to do to help prevent the spread, or mitigate, COVID-19.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The<i> “new normal"</i> started<i> </i>arriving in
2019 with slow-moving outbreaks of COVID-19. It gained momentum like a violent
tsunami, touching everything in its path—and some survived, some did not. Governments now struggle to hold their society together through crippling economic disasters;
individuals strain under shuttered conditions, and; medical systems buckle from
overwhelming caseloads, lack of staff, supplies, and beds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>Nothing remains the same.</i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Interestingly, the word “news” is an acronym
for north, east, west, and south—and the coronavirus floods the news 24/7 of
our lives around the globe! <i></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">An <i>N95 mask</i> protects you from breathing in
small particles of air, such as dust and mold. It is designed to filter out at
least 95% of the dust and mold in the air—and so the name. </span></div>
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by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Look for
the NIOSH logo and the test and certification (T.C.) approval number on the mask
or packaging. Masks that are not certified by NIOSH may not provide adequate
protection to you. Use an <i>N95 mask</i> even if you cannot see the particles
because they may be too small to see. <i>N95 masks</i> do <strong>NOT</strong><b> </b>protect
you against chemical vapors, gases, carbon monoxide, gasoline, asbestos, lead,
or low oxygen environments.</span></span></div>
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<i>over-responders</i> are the panic people who have stockpiled months’
worth of supplies. They’re scared, and buttressing themselves with stacks of
toilet paper is empowering them and easing (that) fear. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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device or appliance designed to be worn or held by an individual for protection
against one or more health and safety hazards</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto";">.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">A pandemic
is a disease prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the world; it's is an epidemic that has spread over a large area.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">The World Health
Organization (WHO) specifically uses <em>pandemic</em> to refer to
new diseases people do not have immunity for, and that has spread worldwide. The
WHO has declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><em><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">A pandemic</span></em><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> can be both
a noun and an adjective (e.g., a <em>pandemic</em> disease)</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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(see social distancing)</span></div>
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distancing</i>. Its use is being increasingly encouraged by some health
professionals because the term emphasizes the importance of maintaining the
physical distance between people to help stop the spread of the disease. The
term also emphasizes that people should still socialize using digital
technology and social media while they are separated physically.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Patient zero</span></i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> refers to the person who is identified as the first
person infected with a communicable disease during an outbreak. Related terms
are index cases and <em>index patient</em>s. An<em> index case</em> is
the first known case of an infectious or genetic disease in a group of cases;
the affected person is the <em>index patient</em>.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></span></div>
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(see self-quarantine, voluntary quarantine)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Quarantine </span></i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">is strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
In public health, people are placed in <em>quarantine</em> when they
are not currently sick but have been or may have been exposed to a communicable
disease. This helps stop the spread of the disease.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Respiration </span></i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">is the breathing, inhalation,
and exhalation of air. Respiratory means “pertaining to respiration,” as
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">A respirator
is a masklike device, usually of gauze, worn over the mouth (or nose and mouth)
to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances or the like.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">To help protect
them from COVID-19, health professionals, wear <em>respirators</em> to
filter out virus particles as they breathe in, so they don’t get infected and
can help patients. For these professionals, the CDC recommends explicitly
using what is called <em>N95 respirators</em>, which fit more tightly
around the nose and mouth than medical or surgical masks.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Shuttering and stay-at-home orders transformed parents into homeschoolers!</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>safer at home </b>(see stay at home order)</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">According to Victoria Beltran, ABCActionews.com, "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">A
s<i>afer-at-home </i>order urges residents to stay in their homes and only go outside
for essential services or activities.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Those
essential services or activities may include going to buy groceries, picking
up medications or participating in recreational activities such as walking or
biking.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">A
<i>safer-at home </i>order also allows for non-essential businesses to remain open as
long as they can either 'limit capacity or self-imposed physical distancing
in their store,' according to the National League of Cities."</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Thousands of sewists engaging in mask-making and shipping to our medical heroes!</span></b></td></tr>
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efforts of thousands of volunteers around the globe organized in local and
national groups, many through social media, to make masks.</span></div>
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term combining the words “sew” and “artist.” It surfaced to national awareness from
the Sewing Army’s volunteer efforts to mean anyone who sews; a sewist doesn’t
have to be a professional seamstress or tailor.</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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(see stay at home)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">In
general,<i> shelter-in-place</i> is an order to stay in a safe place
indoors due to an emergency (e.g., extreme weather, chemical hazard) until
given permission by authorities to evacuate. The specifics of a <i>shelter-in-place</i> order
varies depending on the emergency.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">During
the coronavirus outbreak, <i>shelter-in-place</i> refers to orders
for people to stay at home and not leave unless absolutely necessary. They are
put in place to prevent the further spread of the disease and allow health
professionals to treat patients more effectively.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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the most global cases and deaths reported because Italy reached its apex. March is
International Women’s History Month so it seems appropriate to use<i> sHero</i> to describe
the bravery, strength, and courage demonstrated by women past and present. American
poet Maya Angelou better explains that “A hero is any person intent on making
this a better place for all people.”</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Italians start spirited group singalongs during the coronavirus shutdown.</span></b></td></tr>
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<b style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">shutdown </b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">(see lockdown)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">A <i>shutdown</i> is a government’s mandatory, stay-at-home directive under penalty of jail and fines for noncompliance depending on the state or country. At the time of this blog post, the states of New York, Illinois, Michigan, Virginia, and Maryland are <i>shutdown</i>. (Sadly, my home state of Florida is not--only a stay at home order.)</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">shutter, shuttering</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">
(see stay-at-home order)</span></div>
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(see physical distancing and hunkering down)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><em><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Social distancing</span></em><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> refers to
measures that reduce contact between large groups of people. <em>Social
distancing</em> measures often entail canceling big gatherings (such as
conferences, classes, church services, concerts, and sporting events),
restricting mass transit and travel and working from home.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">The CDC recommends explicitly maintaining a distance of 6 feet (2
meters) between people. (That’s the size of an adult moose in case you were wondering.) During the coronavirus outbreak, people commonly spoke
or wrote of </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hunker--down" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">hunkering down</span></em></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> at home as
they practiced<em> social distancing</em>.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">stay-at-home order </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">(see safer-at-home order)</span></div>
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<i><b>stay</b>-at-home order</i>, while similar to a <i><b>safer</b>-at-home-order</i>, can include more aggressive measures. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For instance, non-essential
businesses are forced to close despite having the ability to prevent
person-to-person spread, as set by the CDC’s Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention Guidelines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Another
measure that can be taken in a <i>stay-at-home order</i> is that residents can get
into legal trouble if they violate any of the restrictions." -Victoria Beltran, ABCActionNews.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"><b>#stayhomesavelives</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"><b>#stopthespread</b></span></div>
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or <i>superspreader</i> is a person infected with
a pathogen (such as a virus, bacterium, or other microorganisms that
produces a disease) and spreads it to an unusually large number of individuals
who aren’t infected.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">A<i> symptom</i>
is a phenomenon that arises from and accompanies a particular disease or
disorder and serves as an indication of it. Major symptoms of COVID-19 include
fever, dry cough, fatigue, and difficulty breathing.</span></span></div>
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paper. The <i>over-responders</i> started hoarding toilet paper early on when the <i>WHO</i> deemed <i>COVID-19</i> a global <i>pandemic</i>.</span></div>
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people into groups based on their need for or likely benefit from immediate
medical treatment. <i>Triage</i> is used in hospital emergency rooms,
on battlefields, and at disaster sites when limited medical resources must be
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tags: Red tags - (immediate) are used to label those who cannot
survive without immediate treatment, but who have a chance of survival</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto";">.”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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the ones who consider themselves invulnerable. They aren’t following <i>social
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">A <i>ventilator</i>
is a machine that helps a patient breathe. It pumps oxygen into the lungs and
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">COVID-19
is a respiratory disease and can cause lung inflammation, which makes it hard
for patients to breathe. That’s why <em>ventilators</em> are
necessary to help treat some patients with the infection, depending on the severity of their symptoms.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></span></div>
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sometimes referred to as <em>respirators</em>. However, <em>ventilators</em> technically
refer to machines that help patients breathe, not the protective <em>respirators</em> nurses
and doctors wear.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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an infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts,
mainly bacteria, plants, and animals. <i>Viruses</i> are composed of an
RNA or DNA core, a protein coat, and, in more complex types, a surrounding
envelope. They are ultramicroscopic, 20 to 300 nanometers (nm) in length. A nanometer
is one-billionth of a meter. Viruses are also metabolically inert, which is why
they only can replicate themselves in cells of living hosts. COVID-19 spreads
through droplets from the mouth and nose of a person with COVID-19 after
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sample, especially a person’s blood or other bodily fluids. <i>Viral load</i> is
typically measured as the number of virus particles per milliliter. The
term <i>viral load</i> is especially used about the amount
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quarantine </b>(see self-quarantine, quarantine)</span><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><em><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">The WHO</span></em><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> is a United
Nations agency based in Geneva, Switzerland. According to the WHO, its main
role is<em>… to direct and coordinate international health within the United
Nations system. Our main areas of work are a health system, health through the
life-course, noncommunicable and communicable disease, preparedness,
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is defined as a person who suspects that they are (or might actually be)
asymptomatic with COVID-19. Many people have visited hospitals and told to
return for testing when more definite symptoms persist. Individuals can also be tested
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</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">means
“relating to any disease of animals communicable to humans.” The noun form
is a <i>zoonosis</i>. The source of COVID-19 is believed to be an animal,
which makes it a <i>zoonotic</i> disease.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="font-size: 18.6667px;">T</b><b style="font-size: 18.6667px;">hank you in advance for commenting and sharing the new words that you learned or made you giggle.</b></span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Mom and I modeling the first two masks. We started making our masks following the airline’s directive once you're ready for take-off: </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">“You can’t help others if you don’t have your mask on.” </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Roger that.</span></b></td></tr>
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<br />Lore Raymondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16319547394150421504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2020612287313921306.post-43478028542545274272020-03-19T07:38:00.002-04:002020-03-19T08:13:08.522-04:00What's Your Spring Mantle? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">“The butterfly counts not months but moments, </span></i></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and has time enough.”</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">~<a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1913/tagore-bio.html" target="_blank">Rabindranath Tagore</a>,
Nobel Prize in Literature 1913</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">On this official first
day of spring, beginnings and second chances are sure to be a buzzin’ in your
mind. The signs are everywhere. The butterfly metaphor appears in posts,
poetry, memes, and Tweets. Sheesh, the Dollar Stores, displayed spring items the
day after Valentine’s Day!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Perhaps you can recall
your science class in elementary school. Do you remember learning the four
stages of the butterfly as an egg, larva, pupa, and adult?</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;"><span style="color: purple;">As a butterfly in the
making, who do you now seek</span><i><span style="color: purple;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">to be </span><span style="color: purple;">after waking up to this pandemic </span></i></span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;"><span style="color: purple;">after a long winter’s
nap? </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
And what if you’re not prepared to...</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">show up,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">unfurl your wings and,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">emerge to proclaim a new title despite all the
external urgings to celebrate Sister Spring?!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">What if you’re just not ready to face today’s outer chaos despite months of cocooning?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><i>Then stay there.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Be still.</span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Find solitude.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Feel peace.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Yes, you could be
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Perhaps you’re still
devouring the leaf you were “born” on. You’re reading, reflecting,
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Perhaps you’re
growing, expanding, and then molting.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This means you are
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This means you are
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Now the caterpillar morphs into a butterfly. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-size: large;"><i>“Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise</i>.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">You may be experiencing the “darkest night” and rightly so with the news’ bombardment of everything COVID-19. I, too, know these moments.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">That’s why upon waking with a writer’s mind, I meditated in the Theta state. The answer to the question, “What do I need to know now for my best and Highest good was:</span></span><br />
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<i style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"> “<b>Be a channel; be of sacred service. Don't try to be the superstar or media darling.”</b></span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Ego immediately woke up with the disturbing thoughts of “No way! You can teach writing classes online or offer Facebook Live’s. This is your time to shine!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">True. I could.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">In 2014 I taught ten online courses long before the boom of online courses.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But not now. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Instead, when I told Ego, “Thanks, but no thanks; you can go away now,” the memories returned of a conversation in 2008 with the Incan shaman, Don Jorge Luis Delgado. We both served as co-leaders for a weeklong church trip in his native Peru.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">On the last day with our group of 32, Don Jorge and I sat on a stone bench in silence observing everyone, one by one, spend quiet time facing the Puerta de ArmaMuru, a stone portal; it was an unusual place that he discovered as a “Star Gate” years earlier.</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">Whispering, Delgado turned to me and asked if I knew my purpose. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">“No,” I replied out of curiosity to hear what he thought the answer might be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">He bestowed the title of “<i>chacaruna" </i>--a bridge keeper<i>--</i>on me with the challenge of helping people express their authentic power and messages. He then pulled out a majestic, ebony condor feather from his shamanic fan with a jeweled, silver hilt saying, “</span><span style="background-color: white;">This is for you.”</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: small;">Shaman, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Andean-Awakening-Inca-Guide-Mystical/dp/1937462048/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Andean+Awakening%3A+an+Inca+Guide+to+Mystical+Peru&qid=1584547994&sr=8-1" target="_blank">author</a>, and entrepreneur, Don Jorge Luis Delgado</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Yes, right now it might feel dark outside and maybe inside your thoughts--and you can choose to enjoy this time of staying at home, self-isolating, shuttering-in-place, and self-quarantining.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">With Delgado's inspiring declaration, I delight today in being a <i>"chacaruna" --</i>a bridge person<i>--</i>to connect you with these resources. Please remember </span><span style="background-color: white;">that there’s <i>always</i> a sunrise coming your way! </span></span></span></div>
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Lore Raymondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16319547394150421504noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2020612287313921306.post-17300494680023289422020-01-06T09:26:00.001-05:002020-01-06T11:53:03.299-05:006 Unwrapped Gift Ideas to Celebrate the Epiphany<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Your Soul Cafe: Conversations that Open Hearts and Inspire Actions</span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">"<i>Ahead of them went the star that they had seen at its rising...When they saw that the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy</i>."-Matthew 2:9,10</span></b></td></tr>
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<b><i><span style="background: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What
gifts might you share on this Feast of the Epiphany?</span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On January 6, many people across the globe celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany—a day when
the Three Wise Men arrived with gifts for the Bethlehem Babe. The story goes that these magi followed a star to reach their sacred destination. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Today I suggest
that <b>Three Wise Women</b> also arrived but in the moonlight, never to be seen so that there are no stories about their precious gifts...<i>until now.</i></span></span></div>
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are three of six gifting ideas to celebrate today’s Epiphany:</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #351c75;">. From the Wise
Maiden-Woman arriving on the wings of Sparrow in the moonlight is the first secret gift: </span></span></b></div>
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Mother-Woman arriving on the wings of Eagle in the moonlight is the second secret gift: Create sacred
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Siren, said, “</span><span style="background: rgb(246 , 247 , 249); font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If
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party I was writing to (as opposed to being about me). I'd let them know how
much I appreciate them and why...and I'd ask about specific things in their
life, how they're enjoying their journey, what's been making their toes wiggle
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Call a prayer ministry to invite prayers for loved ones, leaders, and global concerns.</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This could be a call to
a place like Silent Unity, a 125-year old prayer ministry. (I’ve called them
for 35 years.) Call 1-800-NOW-PRAY as it's always free, 365/24/7. They'll send an
email that includes your name and the person you prayed for.</span></span></div>
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you love or like, and also a list of people you don’t love or like. I use
the <i>Pink Heart Meditation</i>: First, put your hand on your heart.
Breathe. Then see a pink ribbon in figure 8's being woven around your heart,
crossing to the center of the person in mind, circling their heart, and
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">They don't involve the exchange of money; they can be given any time, anywhere to anyone while saving on wrapping and postage and; do connect the head to the heart. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The list to give these kinds of gifts to loved ones and <i>yourself </i>can be as long as the “to buy list.”</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">First, to fess up, I wasn’t going to participate in
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Earth Intersect on the Page</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> launching Janu</span>ary 2020. <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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publishers Jodi Chapman and Dan Teck tugged at my heart with the book’s
subtitle “<i>The Right Guidance at the Right Time</i>.” Inspired, I wrote two
stories, which include how Dragonfly's messages helped guided me to create the Divine Dialogue
Writing System. You can read the bookend stories of “Winged Messengers of
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found yourself wondering what to give dear ones who have everything? I have. Gratefully,
the book provided the answer for Mother’s Day presents! I gifted the three
Raymond women in my life with a story in </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">365 Soulful Messages</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">—my mom Clare
Ann, sister Cathy and, sister-in-law Lisa. What is noteworthy is that each
woman is being published for the first time. Literally, we’re together forever
under one cover with our stories!</span></span></div>
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to writing sisters for inclusion in what might be another #1 Amazon Bestseller.
Happily, several writers of the Divine Dialogue Dialogue Writing Circle replied “yes”
along with other writing sisters. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Joining me as co-contributors are </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Mauri Barnes, Netta deBeer, Heidi Cohen, Amy Coppola, Chery
Kedan, JoAnne Lusis, Jordann Scruggs, Kathy Sullivan, Connie
Theoharis, Sheila Prance, and Karen Wythe.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<b style="color: purple; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here are four reasons to purchase our <a href="https://www.jodichapman.com/365soulfulmessages/?fbclid=IwAR2IlI9JJlnfw9GTJ1TM1NMxir179XuZgJwWJ2lePg1kTLm4_4T72NEaX_I" target="_blank">inspiring book</a> on Tuesday, November 19:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>1) Good karma.</b> If you’re ever planning to write and
publish a book, supporting our 200 writers is sure to add positive juju to
the time when <i>you seek</i> others to buy and review your book!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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number to enter for all-day door prizes in the online Facebook party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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