Truth in advertising?

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  Have we really come that far?   or is it just the products that have changed   The only truth in diet advertising is what we WANT & HOPE  to believe   Where has it really gotten us?   What will our kids think when they look back at the ads from today?   [...]

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Drawing Lessons from the GRID

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Too many years ago, when I first started learning to draw I used “the Grid” technique. You take a picture, draw a grid of equal squares on the picture you want to draw THEN…you draw a light grid of equal square on the paper. You draw on one square at a time. I often share [...]

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“The Secret” Garden

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  This post was inspired by a blogger that I adore….whom I wish was a neighbor, a local friend, that I could sit across the table and have long lofty discussions with…but alas, it is just the comfort of seeing her post in my google reader and jumping on over to her space in this [...]

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The “Magical” Click

There is a magical “click” of recognition when the mirror says back   YES! we are who we dream! Like Cinderella, seeing herself , wearing the beautiful gown, in the mirror for the first time and realizes just how beautiful she is Like the ugly duckling, seeing his image in a pond for the first [...]

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Am I enough? Will they like me?

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  Over the weekend, I sat glued to the broadcast of Whitney’s funeral.  While it was depressing, it was also uplifting. While it was strange, sometimes feeling a little crunchy, peaking in on something so private it was also a reflective experience… The thing that stood out the most for me…and I am sure so [...]

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Thank You

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Still in the midst of my Whole…istic Weekend But I had to make an IMPORTANT pit stop Saying thank you is more than good manners.. It is good spirituality….Alfred Painter       I had to go out early to help someone and on my travels home, I spotted a rainbow… which led straight to [...]

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Whole..istic Budgeting

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  If you haven’t noticed,    I like to play with words   This weekend’s word is Holistic…defined as..  means of or relating to holism****a theory that the universe and especially living nature is correctly seen in terms of interacting wholes  that are more than the mere sum of elementary particles *****  relating to or [...]

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It DOES Matter!

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   I was watching one of my favorite TV shows this past weekend TLC’s   What NOT to Wear!  I have been a fan since the beginning…and often to try to apply their shopping tips While watching this particular show, there was a comment that struck me It DOES matter what’s on the outside too…. [...]

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with every storm, a rainbow

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My online friend, Karen Anderson, has an awesome Pay It Forward Giveaway going on this week.  One of the requests for the giveaway is:  In honor of Valentine’s Day I invite you to write an essay on your blog on the role of self-love in your journey to health and why you’d like to go [...]

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Horse of a Different Color

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   With my weigh-in this week I stayed the same My focus on my water intake was wishy-washy and I have been a little under the weather so I haven’t moved much But that is just a speed bump in the weight loss area but not in the rest of the “healing” Having a lot [...]

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Origins

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As I have mentioned in the past, my Grandma is a woman that I have always admired and the woman I most aspire to be. My grandma was the oldest of ten children and a school teacher until she married my grandfather. She had the kindest and most loving heart of anyone I knew or [...]

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