Category: What About God?
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Gratitude
Tonight I am grateful for my son whom I love dearly. To celebrate his fourteenth birthday tomorrow, we are mountain biking on ruggedly beautiful Mammoth Mountain an ancient volcano lying beside the granite Eastern Sierras of California. The Sierra Nevada mountain range Ansel Adams photographed and John Muir wrote of and advocated to preserve. As I write, I sit…
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Thank You Nonsense and Shenanigans
Tempest Rose, author of the amazing blog Nonsense & Shenanigans – Trying to make sense out of nonsense and shenanigans …but usually achieving the opposite, today honored me by nominating me for the Liebster Award at http://nonsenseshenanigans.com/2014/07/12/liebster-award/. Please go visit her blog, enjoy her writing, and learn more about her. The blogs she nominated are well worth reading. Although greatly…
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Minor Tweaking
So last night and today I made some minor tweaks to my site. My blog subtitle now is: Living with Bipolar Disorder. Loved by God. Hope the new subtitle resonates with others. My former seminary papers hadn’t received much interest. So I removed some articles, and retitled and revised others. Now I ask in my menu bar, What…
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Thank You Mentors
Not precisely Ten Things of Thankful, but I am using the theme of the Ten Things of Thankful blog hop as an opportunity to thank those who have mentored me in my spiritual and religious growth. I originally wrote this article, which you can also find under my blog heading What About God?, as a…
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Third Person
Once, a lifetime ago, when I was only twenty-eight, a rather gifted poet friend of mind, upon reading the first person narrative of my journal, suggested that I try writing in third person. I gave it a try and in so doing turned my rather self-absorbed navel-gazing journal writing into fiction. Some day, some year, I…
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Thanks on Father’s Day
Tonight, as I sit beside my husband watching videos of our son downhill mountain biking earlier today, I decided to express my gratitude in celebration of Father’s Day. My husband is a private man, and on more than one occasion he has warned me not to boast. So to keep my boasting to a minimum,…
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Liebster Award
Dyane Harwood, blog author of Birth of a New Brain – Healing from Postpartum Bipolar Disorder at proudlybipolar.wordpress.com, just can’t stop loving me. She nominated me for yet another award. This time the Liebster Award. The Liebster Award is a peer-appointed award created to recognize and discover new bloggers, welcome them to the blogosphere, build the…
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Ten Things of Thankful (TToT)
Last week, The Considerer, author of Considerings | Life in Silver Linings | Deep Thinking, Truth-telling, and Actively Seeking the Good in Life at summat2thinkon.wordpress.com, invited me to join her and her grateful blog hopping group: Ten Things of Thankful (TToT). I did join their Facebook group, and wrote up a quick and easy list…
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Another Award Nomination Today!
Today is a great day. Two, not just one but two, extraordinary bloggers nominated me for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award. They are: Zephyr Struggles of a Bipolar Woman | Fighting every day, Hoping not to lose the battle http://strugglewithbipolar.wordpress.com Zephyr is a loving mom of a one-year-old son. I know from experience that parenting an active toddler boy…
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Very Inspiring Blogger Award
Dyane Harwood, author of Birth of a New Brain | Healing from Postpartum Bipolar Disorder at http://proudlybipolar.wordpress.com, nominated me for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award. I am thrilled and very, very honored. Not only is Dyane an incredible mental health advocate on behalf of women who have suffered from postpartum bipolar disorder, but she has been a…