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Entries from November 30th, 2005

Wonders Never Cease ;)

November 30th, 2005 · Comments Off · blogdom

Two Talent Living | 2005 Blogs of Beauty Awards – And the finalists are…

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Just Thinking…Artfully

November 30th, 2005 · No Comments · Cogitations

That makes an artist a very important messanger, one with a mission and one with a responsibility. Perhaps we ought to rethink how often we manipulate the message without notice or ‘truth in advertising’.

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Just Conversation

November 30th, 2005 · Comments Off · fragments

Mark La Roi, in comments asked “So it wasn’t just me thinking that?” about the chunk of marble falling from the Supreme Court facade. Nope, and I wonder how many of us were on this wave-length? While, as Christians, we don’t put too much into the symbolism of everyday events, sometimes the message fairly jumps [...]

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Signs And Omens

November 29th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Who Knows

Earlier in the morning, dozens of people had lined up in hopes of getting a seat for arguments inside the court — a practice that is not unusual. Justices were back on the bench Monday following a two-week recess.

The fallen marble lay directly in the center of the path up to the court entrance.

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Is The Holy Spirit Baptism and Gifting Still For Today?

November 29th, 2005 · No Comments · Christian

God’s Grace is often so great that we do get on by without the evidence of what God can do through such manifestations of His power in our midst. We have had a tendency to elevate the piety of our poverty, poverty of spirituality and of situation.

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Return of the Blog

November 29th, 2005 · Comments Off · fragments

I’m back to my blog habit, but I don’t really have everything together quite yet. Right now I am still quite distracted with the many things and thoughts that having a household full of people and a holiday can spawn. I like that word ’spawn’…it just so well describes the whole scenario here of the [...]

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Racial Minefields

November 29th, 2005 · Comments Off · Culture

Admittedly I know nothing about filmmaking and the entertainment industry, but I do know what lends depth and enjoyment to my watching experience… and it doesn’t seem to add anything to have offended large groups of Asian peoples with the casting choices.

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Ordinary People, Ordinary Lives

November 28th, 2005 · No Comments · Christian, Cogitations

You don’t have to spend too much time on the internet before you are inundated with the extraordinary. People who are successful, famous, outstanding, witty, incredibly intelligent and interesting. It can all be a bit intimidating, if you allow it. So many times we are cowed by our own inadequacies:”I can’t possibly compete with that… [...]

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Ilona’s Helpful Hints

November 23rd, 2005 · 2 Comments · Conviviality

Copied from the internet..especially for you:
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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, “Where’s the self-help section?” She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
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What if there were no hypothetical questions?
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I spilled spot remover on my dog. He’s gone now. – Steven Wright
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There ain’t no rules around here. We’re trying [...]

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Degrees of Separation

November 22nd, 2005 · Comments Off · Contemporaries

Checking out the “Rebelution”

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