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Day 5 : I Can’t Believe I Said that!
5 – Moments that leave you like “I can’t believe I said that!” There are times when conversations replay in the head days later and embarrassment hits like a ton of bricks. Of course, if you have never had these moments, then you are super confident. Plenty of these flashbacks happen when you least expect…
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Day 4 – Nostalgic Adventures
Leave a Post-it note in a secret place. One sentence only. What do you say? How does the placement affect the message? Day 4 – Nostalgic Adventures When I was young, my family would visit my maternal grandmother every holiday. My siblings and I would spend one whole week running down luscious green hills, getting…
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Day 3 – Featured Bananas
The Challenge today is: If I could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be and why? 3 – Featured Bananas My word would be the phrase, ‘I can’t.’ This phrase is the source of unhappiness, discontent, anger, discouragement, hate, and all negative scenarios that come to mind. When people say ‘I…
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Words: Conversation: Inspiration
2 – Words: Conversation: Inspiration My sister woke me at the crack of dawn today. I don’t do well with mornings without coffee. This determined fire cracker got me out of bed, dressed, and out the door…all these without a cup of coffee. I give her props for the feat. I’m incredibly unsociable without coffee. The…
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Sweet Six O’clock Sleep
1 – The Great Robbery of Sweet Six O’clock Sleep A bird whistles in the distance, melodious beauty cuts through the heavy veil of sleep. Senses alert, the freezer in the living room hums to life. A series of mechanical whirls fill the silence of the house. They said the thing would be silent that first day…
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Waiting
Waiting …because, A Savage Need fills the mind, the heart, the body, Violently tight, deep inside, still, can’t break through, to the other side. …because, the other side seems happy, filled with smiles, in their minds, their hearts, I think, ‘Why can’t I break through to the other side?’ Yes…this woman she’s a child in…
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Pottery – Art for Sustenance
Adventures in Nairobi led me to a wonderful community center in Eastleigh that does pottery to help fund their projects and support the less privileged. The Eastleigh Community Center has a full-fledged Pottery Workshop that produces gorgeous pottery pieces they sell to support the center. We got the chance to walk through the pottery shop…
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True Love
True Love Expects Nothing in Return – Okawa Ryuho
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The Virgin Journey – Book Review
The Virgin Journey Book Review Gary Stokes is a struggling young American, who then lands a job with a press bureau based in East Africa and an expatriate is born. Gary moves to Kenya, meets a fellow reporter, Guy, who helps him adjust to his new life. Cue in intimidating government officials, unmovable landlords, and…
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You I Love -I’ll Always Remember
When those we love are gone, The pain like a deep hole, inflates so wide, A new world starts, one without, a world alone, Still…no one knows or understands, This pain, how it yawns ahead like an abyss… When those we love are gone, One, Two, then Three years, We think of them, heart…
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