tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73387937289377860952024-03-10T13:49:13.431-07:00THE WRITINGS OF A WANDERING WIDOWAuthor, Judy Howard’s mailing address is Sun City, California, but you will rarely find her there. Instead, you might find the top ranking Amazon author strapped in at the race track ready to check out the Mario Andretti Racing Experience or cruising down Route 66.
Of one thing, you can be sure she is living up to a quote by Henry Thoreau, Howard questions, “How vain is it to sit down and write, when you have not stood up to live?”
Judy Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08244704258580134624noreply@blogger.comBlogger257125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338793728937786095.post-12678087697374973122024-01-20T07:29:00.000-08:002024-01-20T07:29:29.343-08:00Everyone is talking about IT!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTImiDP6zl7wPA-AhxsG07cAVPw-0fZsvcyKx-IVJIXouN1LQCCoR7KqOoxk_EYuSxXvBpqAJ8Xm5bSv8QSwivs4GwQuUcKMntoeKh9NDzk4Kq4nCnLHbA6gfbj3Z_jnkazmLTYw_ZPdY/s3024/IMG_20190317_222856_818.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTImiDP6zl7wPA-AhxsG07cAVPw-0fZsvcyKx-IVJIXouN1LQCCoR7KqOoxk_EYuSxXvBpqAJ8Xm5bSv8QSwivs4GwQuUcKMntoeKh9NDzk4Kq4nCnLHbA6gfbj3Z_jnkazmLTYw_ZPdY/s320/IMG_20190317_222856_818.jpg" /></a></div><br /> Once upon a time Everyone was happy. There were no potholes in the road and a Starbucks at every corner on the way home from work, and a game or a good movie waited for us on tv after a good dinner with family.<p></p><p> <span style="color: #ff00fe;">And then....</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe;"> Everyone was talking about IT. </span></p><p>The whole country and soon the world was a-buzz. I would have found the trend sadly amusing, if it were not so scary. It was as if NO ONE knew of IT before. But no matter. Even if we had we had ignored it, we could not any longer. Because everyone was talking about IT. And we became very afraid.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkwJ7i8MIIBDnOWKbH2kcx5EFsLclUaNvT57Um3GdVzvLIDs-pan1dE6Xok6a8fVVitbPJKCprFfC_okavt3ldH2wVXNVX1NGdZ75JhaUKyEU2x8afdhlBnPJwele0YR3OPx0l9ElebRI/s4032/20190813_160753.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkwJ7i8MIIBDnOWKbH2kcx5EFsLclUaNvT57Um3GdVzvLIDs-pan1dE6Xok6a8fVVitbPJKCprFfC_okavt3ldH2wVXNVX1NGdZ75JhaUKyEU2x8afdhlBnPJwele0YR3OPx0l9ElebRI/s320/20190813_160753.jpg" /></a></div>We began to blame and hate. Everything was wrong. It was as if only yesterday, before IT, no one was being murdered in our inner cities, our children were not being neglected in foster homes or abandoned or kidnapped by traffickers, no one was dying prematurely and at increasingly alarming rates from diabetes, obesity, suicide and from many other stress related illnesses. We had not been concerned that our children did not play outside anymore, nor did they know the history of their own family or town in which they lived.<div>But of course, not only had all that existed, but these issues had been growing globally and at unprecedented rates. <p></p><p> And then IT arrived. And overnight we became an enlightened population -- not about everything that was wrong -- but about IT. We were sorely afraid. We were now wishing and hoping and waiting for someone or something outside ourselves to fix IT as well as us, our country and the world. </p><p>Everyone is still talking about IT. <br />…. as if there is nothing else.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">What if...?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">We never mentioned IT for 24 hours? for 48 hours? </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">We began talking about A NEW IT!? </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"> We find a NEW VISION? A NEW PERSPECTIVE?</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIByI_W7_6qScgJvSuLb1-d37Ei3FWLRZxXRg2P5TpiFwSVik10K9RNOgB2NflyFzWscCTfuiyd5xfhC_NCXDtY9PPQxxDSiMIlAv6mAASOsZelbO1uHOAbX0Q_ejTwXS3AImwFvXTxgs/s1366/picasabackground-1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIByI_W7_6qScgJvSuLb1-d37Ei3FWLRZxXRg2P5TpiFwSVik10K9RNOgB2NflyFzWscCTfuiyd5xfhC_NCXDtY9PPQxxDSiMIlAv6mAASOsZelbO1uHOAbX0Q_ejTwXS3AImwFvXTxgs/w400-h226/picasabackground-1.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="color: #ff00fe;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: red; font-family: quot; font-size: xx-large;">Instead, l</b><span style="color: red; font-family: quot; font-size: x-large;"><b>et's tune</b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: quot; font-size: xx-large;"> in, tap in, and turn </b><span style="color: red; font-family: quot; font-size: x-large;"><b>on</b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: quot; font-size: xx-large;"> to </b><span style="color: red; font-family: quot; font-size: x-large;"><b>the IT</b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: quot; font-size: xx-large;"> within.</b></span></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: quot;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: medium;"><b>Stop for a </b></span></span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: quot; font-size: medium;"><b>moment. 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line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Judy Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08244704258580134624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338793728937786095.post-21863883043907718762021-12-31T11:39:00.025-08:002021-12-31T12:32:52.115-08:002022! Let's Rock It 'Til The Roof Caves In!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxYTAoGmyk-ogRaMcHJNtToV5SJr6E5cTVlMInCZhM63DfzcLGppO-IzDhOi2EM9rm7DXLGv9NsII-W3Vg9iQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><br /><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4c20P5HJ66igUI0-XRARN0aqblokKf2piB8tOi9Lr0gptORZ8LrwzJ5w0v2MZUs8M_IkQkTkj2ItCnKFXgSOQvKK0fl0W0rLJKHvTctxhBKFy88epGa-uW0y97xJRB3KQzbaAumyVjA4tkSFTG3uxokTih6dAiHXy6fJje5zu617Qq22LpU6LH1pN=s2170" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2049" data-original-width="2170" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4c20P5HJ66igUI0-XRARN0aqblokKf2piB8tOi9Lr0gptORZ8LrwzJ5w0v2MZUs8M_IkQkTkj2ItCnKFXgSOQvKK0fl0W0rLJKHvTctxhBKFy88epGa-uW0y97xJRB3KQzbaAumyVjA4tkSFTG3uxokTih6dAiHXy6fJje5zu617Qq22LpU6LH1pN=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">December 31, 2021<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Letting go and New
beginnings!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What a year ! But then I looked back at the previous five
years! What a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ride I have been on! But
for today. I am reviewing 2021. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Every New Year is pivotal yet always the same. A time of
letting go. And in contrast, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a time of
Grabbing the ring on the Carousel! But for me, this year has been the most <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>intense of the past five years. <o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMpyEHyJtNWToV0JbPCxlSBxvYF7XR6CCOWWz6_zhPlMddLCI0pg_JhbE11JslwJbOu5y3Naz9QPtOmn06HGwFThlgS9_7xnaLjFvSSdqb6sL9KIQfX7oEkeUYvZDiXPkQWstGudAuHC-Tm9ZAk_W8X3sDoax5gnaIZm1Bg0Vou4uYHhTxSshQExZZ=s320" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="320" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMpyEHyJtNWToV0JbPCxlSBxvYF7XR6CCOWWz6_zhPlMddLCI0pg_JhbE11JslwJbOu5y3Naz9QPtOmn06HGwFThlgS9_7xnaLjFvSSdqb6sL9KIQfX7oEkeUYvZDiXPkQWstGudAuHC-Tm9ZAk_W8X3sDoax5gnaIZm1Bg0Vou4uYHhTxSshQExZZ" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I began 2021 as I had<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>done for the last <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>twenty years <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>traveling to Quartzite <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to reunite with friends. This year I reunited <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>unique group<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had met the year before – my man group! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I had sold my house in California, and as the Universe has
its way of lining up events,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this
eclectic and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>goodhearted group of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>guys became the angels in my life when “complications”
developed at end of escrow leading to the eviction of the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tenant. My property manager and real estate
agent called my man group “ Judy’s Henchmen” but I called them Angels. Because with
their help I closed escrow and the eager new owner<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>could start his own new <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>life chapter <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as did the tenant. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(No tenant was injured in this event.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The sale of my home<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>cut my <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>last ties<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to California where I had lived the last<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fifty years.(except the last six when I lived
full-time in my motorhome traveling the country writing my books and presenting
my writing and motivational seminars.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
Big Change in the making. I had decided to move to a small town on <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the southern Oregon coast, Brookings, Oregon. I
bought my home in Curry County in which the slogan here is, “There’s no hurry
in Curry.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so, as I learned to release
the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hustle and bustle <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>life of California my lessons of patience <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and trusting the process of life as it is began.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br />On April 1<sup>st</sup> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I laid down my California money on a home <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>believe I was buying but knew in my heart was the right one for me. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAKNPlI3PGLeLxQ7J_sQnP8Bx-PwmpRqLBh6HyYhnoH9T4hvwCWtGt8m_GlhZH19jnWsDOrYm7Gx5H8Yvk4hlcM056jKRGnX1L-mIYJi1N0UWhV7MgjIuir4JDJJ4AzfI_JpcbZJV2F7-Q2fsm5v0uXdV3pQ7CCXv2mQcYmxrEXfxk2jysR8pniluW=s4032" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="4032" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAKNPlI3PGLeLxQ7J_sQnP8Bx-PwmpRqLBh6HyYhnoH9T4hvwCWtGt8m_GlhZH19jnWsDOrYm7Gx5H8Yvk4hlcM056jKRGnX1L-mIYJi1N0UWhV7MgjIuir4JDJJ4AzfI_JpcbZJV2F7-Q2fsm5v0uXdV3pQ7CCXv2mQcYmxrEXfxk2jysR8pniluW=s320" width="320" /></a></div>Four months later I have <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>settled into my perfect fit for a home. As I
write this, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am looking out my window <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>upon a mountain of green trees<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and a light rain<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that seems to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dampen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>my entire world. The gift of a thin layer<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of snow at Christmas<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has melted from an occasional sunny day In
this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>place I have decided is a
vortex<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of ocean, river, and rain to
create a circle of good will <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that I have
only found a few other places in my travels.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhU-HY2uBAVmKlIjvrIfCkQDeeRkAXSMPHq5_muuMhmrVCdsuVONT3pKdB-kT6qi-F8TOPSXXeAJdZqemIzjGBR2AcSxq01_lzHCNyE4WoG4qD8MoVq3twGAo1CCeMtNY0QttXqUnkR-elUG5EfStJkpL-wHC5vyiaGYvbO4xMK6CVSqHA7OTAE4UyB=s4032" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhU-HY2uBAVmKlIjvrIfCkQDeeRkAXSMPHq5_muuMhmrVCdsuVONT3pKdB-kT6qi-F8TOPSXXeAJdZqemIzjGBR2AcSxq01_lzHCNyE4WoG4qD8MoVq3twGAo1CCeMtNY0QttXqUnkR-elUG5EfStJkpL-wHC5vyiaGYvbO4xMK6CVSqHA7OTAE4UyB=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now as I gather the hard and easy <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lessons I’ve learned from 2021, and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mold them <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>into the massive<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bundle <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of other incredible gifts of years past, I am
ready to meet 2022<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>head on, as the newest
updated version of Judy!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I leave behind one of
the most beloved influencers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of my life.
The one who lived the biggest life of all and might be the most influential ... my dearlest, beloved cat, Sportster. May his next cat life rock the world like he did mine. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDLhwR8GnffzSkTaHYIQEbUNLSumgKGPrcyF9HJtL8pp7zB1EgNW4TSrQE84ngifSkRu-n6JIHv46cb_SOjml6QThP1wR7OzMjEKgqKzh38KH3dI7qrL2dfE5ZMPTVtctBwERXJrG2Zjqp4rLEDbWo1xNJch6YFEMetG8qQSyLXW17Bb9zEfJzM-jn=s320" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDLhwR8GnffzSkTaHYIQEbUNLSumgKGPrcyF9HJtL8pp7zB1EgNW4TSrQE84ngifSkRu-n6JIHv46cb_SOjml6QThP1wR7OzMjEKgqKzh38KH3dI7qrL2dfE5ZMPTVtctBwERXJrG2Zjqp4rLEDbWo1xNJch6YFEMetG8qQSyLXW17Bb9zEfJzM-jn" width="240" /><span style="text-align: left;">i</span></a></div><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I wish you all<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a
wonderful and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bountiful new year. May
your cup of kindness and good will overflow that the entire world will notice. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am sending my wishes of love and good will to every one of
you … because all of you … guaranteed … every one of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you …<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">have <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>changed my life!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">I am eternally
grateful!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioEKuY32t0qt_BnPSSTzt2b6IsDw89AG0kGzyRDdewFkYKDVMwBxQhjJIRiO_aW7s1MZRXyj9hV-PO1S8rzixSVYITjqDYOw2Ds-Is86c9T2lEWhd_G084zFoCgYbkyhiroNE01qTQXcDn_Q--jgb-_86I2BGbL4VwTwvBm4G4t1-QiSFBjTI6d1px=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioEKuY32t0qt_BnPSSTzt2b6IsDw89AG0kGzyRDdewFkYKDVMwBxQhjJIRiO_aW7s1MZRXyj9hV-PO1S8rzixSVYITjqDYOw2Ds-Is86c9T2lEWhd_G084zFoCgYbkyhiroNE01qTQXcDn_Q--jgb-_86I2BGbL4VwTwvBm4G4t1-QiSFBjTI6d1px=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />Happy New Year!<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With love, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Judy Howard<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(And Sportster in spirit)<o:p></o:p></p>Judy Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08244704258580134624noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338793728937786095.post-59705568636369921292020-10-02T09:14:00.007-07:002020-10-02T09:54:58.145-07:00What have we become?<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Look
Away<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyT6ikWGSSKABmvAF_C7XD9YwJc-2rNtHDnFMnsY3Y_2L2CBrAHK3v-zsPAvw-yIjDeSLMZPmqsUxn3AXzaFTScImCPMxNWmG093NoS_u1XHkKYpyrPcxw4UXdGmwIw9WU3v903NrXm0w/s4032/20190705_140132.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyT6ikWGSSKABmvAF_C7XD9YwJc-2rNtHDnFMnsY3Y_2L2CBrAHK3v-zsPAvw-yIjDeSLMZPmqsUxn3AXzaFTScImCPMxNWmG093NoS_u1XHkKYpyrPcxw4UXdGmwIw9WU3v903NrXm0w/w240-h320/20190705_140132.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><b>What have we become? How did this happen?</b><div><b><br /></b><div>The discontent
has<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>been brewing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> f</span>or quite some time or maybe it began when
Europe thought the solution to solving what was wrong in their country would be to send their condemned<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>criminals and
misfits to live far, far away in the wilds of the new world.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGLVeuQIpbD2fcEIaxYLj3IGQ4toJ21HOd1atxOaR4Llugj18BkzJ7J44gpRk0zWp4gtYwwq5bjgtCkDvbk0bGqZZ_VaSuCmjZOBWBGox_WDEWRYibTuUjFyjHHF50Uu10pK83xrYbL-Y/s4032/20190718_162604.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGLVeuQIpbD2fcEIaxYLj3IGQ4toJ21HOd1atxOaR4Llugj18BkzJ7J44gpRk0zWp4gtYwwq5bjgtCkDvbk0bGqZZ_VaSuCmjZOBWBGox_WDEWRYibTuUjFyjHHF50Uu10pK83xrYbL-Y/s320/20190718_162604.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>What is happening is as old as time</b>. As government takes
over more and more, we become less involved and less invested with one another.
We become separated. We see only the differences in one another. And we are
afraid.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>When we live in fear, we cannot be loving.</b> We lose
our perspective that we are all a part of the whole, that we are connected. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>When we distrust </b> the man across the street who doesn’t drive, but
rides the bus --- when we become suspicious of the apartment dwellers across the
tracks, and those who reside in the small little town huddled in the woods who
keep to themselves --- when we compare those who live in the southern part of the state
to the northerners, the east coast to the west coast ---<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>We see only an endless list of differences. </b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8ZyppxxEYSr13LxhwCiSQy5B-dv9rRHaLEBMVd8r5X_ECq-gvoVwE__Fom98UxtbtLeFMAfvpAp2DXyJzPN8zOgSqyIYRfKfgdU5AKyGyxWvDji7YXOm49qu-jHwYvswVFhTLsu4FzMM/s4032/20190719_175354.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8ZyppxxEYSr13LxhwCiSQy5B-dv9rRHaLEBMVd8r5X_ECq-gvoVwE__Fom98UxtbtLeFMAfvpAp2DXyJzPN8zOgSqyIYRfKfgdU5AKyGyxWvDji7YXOm49qu-jHwYvswVFhTLsu4FzMM/s320/20190719_175354.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><b>In nature, differences abound</b>, but when united they
create a rash and intrepid life force!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every
river contributes to the ocean’s mighty tides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What happens when one tree joins together with the myriad of others and share
their space? An eight hundred-billion-acre canopy of shelter and a cornucopia
of nourishment is born for the various herds, nests, dens and packs of animals and
species.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>And what happens</b> when we cease to experience and understand nature’s
endless and herculean demonstrations of strength in unity? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We disgrace ourselves; we ignore her message
and we look away. We find ourselves <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>focusing
only on the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>six inches of blue light of
our phones, the seventy-two inches of our TV screen and the print on our
Kindles which tell us what<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we should
want and what we shouldn’t do, what we should love and what we must fear. And because
we see nothing else, we believe that is our reality. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>What happens?</b> There is no imagination. No wonder. Nothing left
to debate. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnXoqC0en1lPtC0yj0zzoeWgl75rLUpW5vCEzG5-7OSqMa254ZRrkoB3z9R2r-ZOQh5b7bwG9R478thB_AVwXj10vSCh1L6hGtFqfMC2dzrqUyr_4L5IbKXMoj7w8JlWLmlrGgaY8RPKU/s1920/ARTINRYHOLITE.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnXoqC0en1lPtC0yj0zzoeWgl75rLUpW5vCEzG5-7OSqMa254ZRrkoB3z9R2r-ZOQh5b7bwG9R478thB_AVwXj10vSCh1L6hGtFqfMC2dzrqUyr_4L5IbKXMoj7w8JlWLmlrGgaY8RPKU/s320/ARTINRYHOLITE.png" width="320" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSZVk_v5ksxyMRCMGYYWbUx_HDJQCpt4NWWNhqUaxukre_AoWytlVUrXYeMhwp4HVVMu8HqVkVcKqAr5pVmO0dCGF5KBhHJmCBJgxxKYYFb6mefbuHyJ6Gqv07z6i3g2KfhrCKGJS8Fro/s4032/20190718_161653.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSZVk_v5ksxyMRCMGYYWbUx_HDJQCpt4NWWNhqUaxukre_AoWytlVUrXYeMhwp4HVVMu8HqVkVcKqAr5pVmO0dCGF5KBhHJmCBJgxxKYYFb6mefbuHyJ6Gqv07z6i3g2KfhrCKGJS8Fro/s320/20190718_161653.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>What remains? </b>Only argument, accusations, denouncing, and
denial. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we are left to believe our safety,
our security and our faith are in the hands of only <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>two blatant and embarrassing examples of our
humanity, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>vying for control of what is
the largest and most powerful economy on the globe. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>When we lose our focus,</b> only fear remains which takes of
down the path of anger, distrust, and depression. None of those whom we have
looked to have restored our confidence or our faith, nor have they have acted
as leaders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None have built trust or
hope. The world only saw two fighting dogs in a small ring behind the barn. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>When we believe only two can make us strong</b>, when we believe
billions of dollars will unite us and create a safe and secure future, we have forgotten
or never known that the only <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>real and
lasting power is in unity. Billions of energies coming together. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>It is time to look away,</b> to learn <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from the raindrops which formed the endless
seas, to learn from the plush and bountiful forests which give, you and me, and all earthly
creatures, the air that we <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>breathe, the food
for our families, and shelter from the storms.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Sf3T1MBcnVGLN3WFNGtv2-LDB8UiLOsWhdXzaN420DvjJv-ENARUl0CVBRAydSn1BkYWBDN22mASKG41RE7jQhycp4Hx3f7fzm-v1DhtQAx24_0KnW7Y-MOLUiZP1y_ocK6um4wnz7Y/s2048/SANCHRISX.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Sf3T1MBcnVGLN3WFNGtv2-LDB8UiLOsWhdXzaN420DvjJv-ENARUl0CVBRAydSn1BkYWBDN22mASKG41RE7jQhycp4Hx3f7fzm-v1DhtQAx24_0KnW7Y-MOLUiZP1y_ocK6um4wnz7Y/s320/SANCHRISX.jpg" /></a></div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>We only need to look
away</b> from<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>our screens – look away from
the fake chaos paid and produced to steal our attention from the non-profitable
but peaceful and caring reality that still exits -- if only we look away.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><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/AVvXsEhqG63lHCIC_-zSj-vXCOv8ODFs1gm3ciG2ODZK45A1zT2QTpl-_6Rbrd7KT7zhOdCT4mhX9lVFdkAuOkaTyidMeuOOleHTJsNUk5kYrvPDAya2WrJzOjEZea6KiWaDU1vfGClguBf8Qzo/s2048/BRIDGE.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqG63lHCIC_-zSj-vXCOv8ODFs1gm3ciG2ODZK45A1zT2QTpl-_6Rbrd7KT7zhOdCT4mhX9lVFdkAuOkaTyidMeuOOleHTJsNUk5kYrvPDAya2WrJzOjEZea6KiWaDU1vfGClguBf8Qzo/s320/BRIDGE.jpg" /></a></div><br /></div><br /> <o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>We need to be accountable</b>
for only our small part in this world’s big picture. Be the raindrop, be the tree. Reach
out. Become a part of the whole, like the raindrop is to the ocean, and like
the tree is the forest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then we can
become as the universe is mighty.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>What happens </b> if you and I face our obligation to the whole? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What remains when we walk across the
proverbial street and shake the hand of a stranger?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>All of us, not just
two,</b> but all of us, and the strangers whom we have not yet met, become a unit of strength
mightier than all of the oceans and more nourishing than all of the forests. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">United we become like the Almighty.</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjediY_ZcU-9wr2MashIM9Gd86a7j5pkyXaP1D4lPxErevN_CpvtUGJX_bWDoE5dKvqUyIn5OnKq3U678tHz4OX4nLU-d9fqaFzqRpUWCRZagDzbweJ61mNGGwIHpGy1Yqc-c2IUfhyphenhyphenKxk/s2048/20190225_183113.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjediY_ZcU-9wr2MashIM9Gd86a7j5pkyXaP1D4lPxErevN_CpvtUGJX_bWDoE5dKvqUyIn5OnKq3U678tHz4OX4nLU-d9fqaFzqRpUWCRZagDzbweJ61mNGGwIHpGy1Yqc-c2IUfhyphenhyphenKxk/s320/20190225_183113.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div>Judy Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08244704258580134624noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338793728937786095.post-19127783223896273512020-08-31T14:51:00.152-07:002020-09-02T13:46:30.409-07:00Do you know what today is? Today was your future yesterday!<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;">Today was your future, yesterday.</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj897QODhTh10_61_5N2MWdr4BrDIXCannW11EF8-EwEqISNNwUTzSTQK8Ze6zIBlGBdo_j_xvjPEfo58FjaEe91IuoWbCqnDXxRK_GLN0_9_FgM-B-OsY7EXz5yindKzfdWDMGlPi3MC4/s284/download.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj897QODhTh10_61_5N2MWdr4BrDIXCannW11EF8-EwEqISNNwUTzSTQK8Ze6zIBlGBdo_j_xvjPEfo58FjaEe91IuoWbCqnDXxRK_GLN0_9_FgM-B-OsY7EXz5yindKzfdWDMGlPi3MC4/s0/download.jpg" /></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Welcome September! </span>Growing up in
Illinois, fall became my favorite time of the year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I welcomed the brisk, crisp air after<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the long, hot and humid summer,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a season when my sis and I would rake up the
musky leaves, amassing their shades of red and gold and earthen browns into towering
heaps that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>made the most<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>perfect of world of tunnels. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And when the afternoon shadows stretched across the lawn, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the fresh fallen leaves crunched as we fell
backwards onto their bed. And then we wasted <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the afternoon away while we studied <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the magical clouds as they<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>painted kittens and puppies and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lions across the backdrop of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a perfectly blue sky.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb4LSb5Yw7sa5sP5tYY7j1uT8AHT-8eSLVP7Y7e-sFcXmGIiLD-48-ScHU1c3GBIp4Uv0XTHV8hUqQ5I-6yg_WWVkCcwYxuQ16ea_GANxNVpLPNeG3kKNfHkerMtaVbpDMcgkncAfdhOo/s4032/20181101_221448.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb4LSb5Yw7sa5sP5tYY7j1uT8AHT-8eSLVP7Y7e-sFcXmGIiLD-48-ScHU1c3GBIp4Uv0XTHV8hUqQ5I-6yg_WWVkCcwYxuQ16ea_GANxNVpLPNeG3kKNfHkerMtaVbpDMcgkncAfdhOo/s640/20181101_221448.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the past four years, I have planned my road trips so
that I would arrive in Illinois to enjoy fall’s rapture.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">But today, as fortunate as I am to be savoring the sound of the
crashing coastal waves of the Pacific as I write to you, I am saddened that this 2020 fall season I will be missing
the experience of reliving my childhood memories … and also regretting that I never packed a rake on one of those
visits. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Missed opportunities.
I vow here and now! Next year I'm bring a rake!<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">During today's trying times, when I've considered the adventures that I believe I am missing, I have become engaged in a brawl
between clinging to my optimism, or joining the vast crowds of the bitter and
blaming.</p><p class="MsoNormal">This girl,
whom you all have called inspirational, a firecracker, and an adrenaline junkie,
feels as if she’s been at war with her soul.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgv_aUZ4j3fbiIyPm_ZiVRG_TDoZLaSx3vjrmiHbjz5fwZbfQkmqegKcW7GXtlflVpLIWb7RunNsDmFVaTRB8X5n8507w4fmQ-Jt3KJlpSfdR4FUgHPTk8Jmm_TGODjG8LZGL5lQMRq24/s600/THE+ISOLATOR.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="600" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgv_aUZ4j3fbiIyPm_ZiVRG_TDoZLaSx3vjrmiHbjz5fwZbfQkmqegKcW7GXtlflVpLIWb7RunNsDmFVaTRB8X5n8507w4fmQ-Jt3KJlpSfdR4FUgHPTk8Jmm_TGODjG8LZGL5lQMRq24/w320-h269/THE+ISOLATOR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />At first, in March, I relished the chance to waste my days
away, dreaming of tomorrow when things would go back to normal. I treated the stay-in-place order like I had
the long, humid Illinois summers. I waited for the misery to pass. I made
the best of it.<div><br /></div><div> Through the month of April I grabbed hold of the opportunity to write day and night undisturbed. April became my adult version of lying in a bed of
fresh fallen leaves and getting lost in the journey of the clouds. <o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">But soon my patience waned and the thunderous clouds of anger,
hate, negativity and fear shadowed me everywhere I went. The new limiting
circumstances made it impossible to escape.
It seemed as if there was nowhere to go.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">And now it is September, and even though I am enjoying fall in
Oregon, my heart yearns for the classical season of an Illinois fall. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> What to do?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> With only four months left of this unusual year, I am ready to rake up
the last six months of claustrophobia, loneliness, anger and regret, gather up the multitude of mixed emotions into a heap,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> and then, </p><p class="MsoNormal">like my childhood pile
of old musky dead leaves … <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;"><b>Jump in!</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">This novel experience that we all are sharing? I say, it is like Bette Midler’s, song, <i>The
Rose</i>. This untried and unfamiliar encounter is not a river made to drown
us, nor a razor leaving us to bleed, nor does it have the power to fill us with
a hunger or aching need. Instead, it is a
season of transformation, like the fall.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps we are experiencing is an audition, a
shakedown, a prelude for a glory even more spectacular than Bette
Midler’s <i>The Rose</i>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6yoagsNQY9KV_8NO75Lb4_DuMapOi8GhH5g_9KiD36PUku5-fRJbClh9bYDKYZVEzkSv5DTnohL1s543_G5HZYSATmHu2wVcBi2qfP-OpI9sKI84fTVVs2PWAzT1kOKT3ZUs9hp7PpQ/s253/download+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="199" data-original-width="253" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6yoagsNQY9KV_8NO75Lb4_DuMapOi8GhH5g_9KiD36PUku5-fRJbClh9bYDKYZVEzkSv5DTnohL1s543_G5HZYSATmHu2wVcBi2qfP-OpI9sKI84fTVVs2PWAzT1kOKT3ZUs9hp7PpQ/w162-h127/download+%25282%2529.jpg" width="162" /></a></div><br /> <o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">When the trees bare their leaves, I do not see the leaf’s
demise as a death, or the forest’s appearance
as stark. Instead I choose to see the trees have offered up a
gift of gratefulness, for the summers’ nurturing heat that contributed
to their abundance of fruit … and thus, their seeds to be strewn upon the
ground. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG-xIGguIA8ArgQfkuJ15o4ySlGHmzxZQfH0dIPltnEIHaPOODlUDzBySb2CE-eT4AXw8N-v7CGWdjvsCZD2885alo-BofGIL3m0KPNrNrgunaNOuAvSc3OgJoMqqHujhTyHAY_iWEOaI/s2048/tree+and+field.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG-xIGguIA8ArgQfkuJ15o4ySlGHmzxZQfH0dIPltnEIHaPOODlUDzBySb2CE-eT4AXw8N-v7CGWdjvsCZD2885alo-BofGIL3m0KPNrNrgunaNOuAvSc3OgJoMqqHujhTyHAY_iWEOaI/w320-h320/tree+and+field.jpg" width="320" /></a> <span face="" style="font-size: 12pt;">Do they know that through their sacrifice, they will
become heroes in the spring? Do they kno</span>w their
blanket of warmth across the cold barren ground offers an opportunity in the
spring for The Rose to perform its miracle? </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I look back upon the big picture of my life, and the struggles
I thought I would never be able to endure, and yet somehow, I did. </p><p class="MsoNormal">All of those troubles and tragedies brought
me here, to this life I am living, a life I love. A life created out of the ashes of my troubles that I could never have imagined.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">So, I will confront this novel unknown as I have always done. I will
refuse to be afraid of a heartache, or to learn to dance, or to take a chance. I
will not be so afraid of dying that I forget to live. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: medium;"><b>So who's with me? I say, “Bring it on! Show me what you’ve got!”</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9fbsIo_m8GwxotbHzveCxx6uSCQRau7z_WWdGmpevISAZZ3VwqCqS5neJ5uU-2mR3y20Zv9iOr3A5OyPM-SynqUwsu1CabMNhcWug3ya5yrl8GR7fxGrhyV7PG8TC7CfC3Pxao1jDS84/s2048/20190813_160727.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9fbsIo_m8GwxotbHzveCxx6uSCQRau7z_WWdGmpevISAZZ3VwqCqS5neJ5uU-2mR3y20Zv9iOr3A5OyPM-SynqUwsu1CabMNhcWug3ya5yrl8GR7fxGrhyV7PG8TC7CfC3Pxao1jDS84/w158-h210/20190813_160727.jpg" title="Making Friends" width="158" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh, the new friends you will make!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div>Oh, the people we will meet and the miracles we will create! <br /><o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> We are all under the same blanket of fear. Let's not see it only as dead smelly leaves. For me, I’m changing
my perspective. This season, which yesterday seemed dire, I now see as a promise and we are the seeds. </p><p class="MsoNormal">And if we are the seeds, then we are also the future. We are full of tomorrows which are offering us unlimited opportunities. And through these opportunities we will be transformed into someone more amazing than we were yesterday.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-mvIO_AlU-cYQT5rxg2hAjE7p5-io0pwxbdQFzsYKvyyc4QK-aylVmCY_npDGWgaS9YbwDgGE8kioTTIon9oDb-v9F9IQsYqdn07TBVm2CQ9vdhVUvxbNK2STVbJTtNAMIxtMbejYeyQ/s1080/WASHINGTON+RAIL+RIDERS.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="1080" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-mvIO_AlU-cYQT5rxg2hAjE7p5-io0pwxbdQFzsYKvyyc4QK-aylVmCY_npDGWgaS9YbwDgGE8kioTTIon9oDb-v9F9IQsYqdn07TBVm2CQ9vdhVUvxbNK2STVbJTtNAMIxtMbejYeyQ/w262-h128/WASHINGTON+RAIL+RIDERS.jpg" width="262" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making Friends while riding the rails in Ione, Washington.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJKAh-zkn6hnA9z9G8lx0Kw1Id2j_vZGITI7WkJt20rKs4kqQEIHswIgJJ3B3qA_IDQBOvbplRTY8l_4IyZiMBRqvZJPfkXF41NjCtDtY1MC6CAQpoVTiWDr_zsAPCNkB2slv8ZWgQ7mo/s1440/ALBANY+OREGON+LES+SCHWABB.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJKAh-zkn6hnA9z9G8lx0Kw1Id2j_vZGITI7WkJt20rKs4kqQEIHswIgJJ3B3qA_IDQBOvbplRTY8l_4IyZiMBRqvZJPfkXF41NjCtDtY1MC6CAQpoVTiWDr_zsAPCNkB2slv8ZWgQ7mo/w246-h328/ALBANY+OREGON+LES+SCHWABB.jpg" width="246" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sportster is winning friends (meet Tadd) and influencing people in Kalispell, Montana while our new refrigerator is being installed at Gardner's RV .<br />.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">How long will it take? Who knows? But the journey is an exciting challenge and the
makeover will be spectacular! <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Today is the first day of your future. </b></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="color: #ff00fe;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>The Rose</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLD2DETwceeHK2DZiGQpKydEsVhHapF81il-cqW-_9jszlM429fo4S9eIJRc23hQ576MsjpxhAGLFgtdOo3CJXn65j-ZQNlzzuZzUifr7iitNDQpUuo1wYL41Tra1DtaYrlF-mDbm96Pc/s259/download+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLD2DETwceeHK2DZiGQpKydEsVhHapF81il-cqW-_9jszlM429fo4S9eIJRc23hQ576MsjpxhAGLFgtdOo3CJXn65j-ZQNlzzuZzUifr7iitNDQpUuo1wYL41Tra1DtaYrlF-mDbm96Pc/s0/download+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&sxsrf=ALeKk02xOvMwEOokoXENCC-N3LHJoyvTFw:1598640900887&q=Bette+Midler&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLUz9U3MEwpt6xaxMrjlFpSkqrgm5mSk1oEAL662J4cAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwji5JS4yb7rAhXBsJ4KHcyxAFMQMTAAegQIAxAD"><span style="color: #660099; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bette
Midler</span></a><span style="color: #70757a; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 9pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some say love,
it is a river, that drowns the tender reed<br />
Some say love, it is a razor, that leaves your soul to bleed<br />
Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need<br />
I say love, it is a flower, and you, its only seed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 9pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It's the heart
afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance<br />
It's the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance<br />
It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give<br />
And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When the night
has been too lonely and the road has been too long<br />
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong<br />
Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snows<br />
Lies the seed, that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: quot; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="" style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;"><span style="line-height: 32px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Click on the link below to find out more about Judy's books.</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="" style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: magenta; 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<i>Your most authentic self is not who you currently are,
but rather, who you desire to become. You are the author of your life’s
narrative. You have power to determine the stages of life you will be on and
the characters you will play.</i><br />
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Today is my birthday. </div>
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I have favorite days of the year. Thanksgiving - for the
food and the sentiment behind the holiday. New Year’s Eve, a time for reflecting
and looking forward. And my birthday, a time to say goodbye to who I was
yesterday and to plan for a new and improved version of me for tomorrow.<br />
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Yesterday I wanted the world we live in to be a better place.
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I wanted us to disconnect from everything and connect more
with one another.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted us to find a
universal commonality that would show us we are all in this together. <br />
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I wanted to us to discover that the answer to longevity and health
is not to focus on what is wrong with us and our world, but instead to envision
the future and the life we want. <br />
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Yesterday I embraced the belief that change is as simple as a
new idea going viral. <br />
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Yesterday I hoped everyone would grab ahold of an innovative
concept, a new life design and take it to heart. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Yesterday I believed this new outlook, this conjecture would
be a novelty, a miracle cure, and yet as old as dirt which had always been here,
right under our noses. but just overlooked as insignificant. <br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yesterday I wanted us
to keep an eye on the prize. Not the problem. Because when you decide what you
want, the universe conspires to make it happen.<br />
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and anger, and sadness remorse when they looked at their journey through their
past.<br />
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Yesterday I wanted to show those who were in despair, believing
their life was a stagnant pond, that if they continued on their path, they would be like the raindrop which believed it did not make
a difference in the flood or in the drought. Where would we be then?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Today, my birthday present to myself? </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">I am looking forward to tomorrow and engaging my newest improved plan in hopes of inspiring others to
follow their star, connect with those
unlikely others who will become the wind beneath their wings and to soar into their
future in which they have envisioned. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Because we all know you go where your eyes go.</span><br />
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these life changing times. You ask, “How can we plan when we don’t know what
tomorrow brings?’</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> Did any of us ever
have a crystal ball? Could any of us see the big picture? No. We only thought we could. The illusion of
being in control is just that, -- an illusion.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> Self-distancing? Sure! </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">You may think it is difficult to plan for tomorrow during
these life changing times. You ask, “How can we plan when we don’t know what
tomorrow brings?’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> Did any of us ever
have a crystal ball? Could any of us see the big picture? No. We only thought we could. The illusion of
being in control is just that, -- an illusion.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> Self-distancing? Sure! </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> But we can no longer distance
ourselves from our problems and the struggles of others. We cannot sit back on our haunches and throw
money at our degrading lifestyle and culture in order to fix it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Money will not repair the world consciousness in which at
this moment 80 % of the global population suffers from depression and stress. And
that rate was rising at an alarming rate before COVID19 struck. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Neither can we continue to look to our government for
solutions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">We need to disconnect from the noise, be quiet and look within.
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">From the bottom of my heart, more than words can say it is
my wish to save our planet. Overly ambitious? I think not.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">We have been so focused on the tragedy of the COVID19
pandemic we have forgotten to see the heroes. Those who have succumbed to this devasting illness
are our heroes! Their sacrifices have made way for a new enriched future.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Our skies are bluer our hearts are bigger, and our
compassion is stronger. We are connected with one another. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">We’ve been afraid far too long even before this virus came
into being, but we are not born to be a fearful people. It was killing us. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">And now look how far we have come!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> we are coming
together We are slowing down and going within for our solutions. Each of us is
listening to an answer that is unique only to us. We are coming together. We’re
believing in miracles, loving our heroes, and giving, not money but ourselves, our
time and our hearts in order to make someone’s life better. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">My plan for tomorrow? As only one raindrop, I hope to continue sprinkling
inspiration and faith to convince you that anything is possible if you….. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Be still.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Go within</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Listen </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Are you an RVer, or a wanna be RVer? to the <span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><strong>Family Motor Coach Association Rally at the Indio fairgrounds</strong></span> in California January 7<sup>th</sup> through the 11<sup>th</sup> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>The rally is open to the publi<span style="color: black;">c. </span><span style="color: red;"> </span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Everything for and about RVs and the RV lifestyle will be available at this rally. It is one of the largest rallies in the southwest region. It is not a sales lot, though there will be plenty of RVs to drool over. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Attend the many seminars and demonstrations covering recreational vehicles and the RV lifestyle and many other subjects. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: medium;">I will be presenting two of my most popular seminars about how to pursue your inspirations and dreams of writing a book, blog or memoir.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bring your questions to the seminars. I’ll be presenting at the rally on Thursday January 19<sup>th</sup> at 2:15 pm-3:15 pm, Friday the 10th at 8:30 am - 9:30 am and Saturday January 11th at 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm. Did you know that 80% of the population has thought about writing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll cover the basics of how I began in this career and became a top ranking Amazon author, earning money on the road. Come early seating fills up fast. I hope to see you there!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: medium;">This year I have a surprise !!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: medium;">I will be offering what we writers call a <span style="color: red;">PIRATE WORKSHOP</span> in which <span style="color: red;"><b>ALL LEVELS</b></span> of writers gather together and critique one another's writing. If you want to meet other like-minded folks who are just starting out on their writing journey or who are seasoned this will be an informal and fun get-together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: medium;">For <span style="color: black;">Details and questions </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: medium;">contact me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"></span>And if you miss my workshops in Indio,<span style="color: black;"> I have</span><b><span style="color: red;"> FREE TICKETS</span></b> to the International<strong><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"> FMCA Rally in Tucson, Az.</span></strong> March 26th through March 29th. I will be presenting these three seminars and maybe a surprise fourth seminar! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: medium;">And finally, whether or not you have the RV fever, come to <strong><span style="background-color: magenta;">Quartzite, Arizona after Indio. </span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="background-color: magenta;">Quartzite, Arizona </span></strong>is the RVer’s mecca. Once a year, the little town whose population is less than 2000, becomes a BIG, little town during January boasting a temporary population of over a quarter of a million, mostly RVers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: medium;">Look for me at the <span style="background-color: magenta;">Authors' Book Fair</span> at </span><span style="background-color: cyan; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: medium;">Readers' Oasis Book Store on Main Street. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>January 1<sup>st</sup>! </b></span></span></div>
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day of the rest of my life! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who’s game? Let’s hit the deck running!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">It’s my time
for new beginnings and new habits. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s my
time to review last year’s feedback. (Notice I did not say “failures.”)</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">What was my average day like last
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">2018 marked
one year of recovery since my hip replacement surgery in 2017. Before surgery,
the focus of my desires was only to be healthy again. I wanted to be able to
put my shoes on, to walk and to sleep without pain. I wanted to get back on a
productive writing schedule but waiting five painful months for my surgery date
led to bouts of depression. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I belabored
my future, wondering if it was downhill from here on out.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">With surgery
a distant memory in my rearview mirror, in 2020, I am even more excited about
2020. I am living the life! I travel fulltime in my motorhome with my cat,
Sportster. I visit awe-inspiring places and meet the nicest people on earth! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">There’s no
room for excuses and procrastination. Well, except that my mind wants me to me
comfortable, and urges me to sleep in, eat that sugar loaded cinnamon roll, and
to zone out, marathoning on the latest Netflix series.</span><br />
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the obstacles in its path so that I may thrive and become the best Judy Howard
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I imagine my
ideal day in 2020 which supports a schedule and will include blocks of time to
write a blog to keep in touch with my family and you, my
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Judy Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08244704258580134624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338793728937786095.post-17374352871406687182019-10-03T11:01:00.003-07:002019-10-14T12:32:31.323-07:00Good Stories or Bad Stories. Hard To Tell.<br />
Our lives are a series of stories, as well as stories within
stories which are good or bad. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.<br />
After<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a great time at the book signing at <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.clayville.org/Fall-Festival">Clayville Fall Festival in
Pleasant Plains, Illinois</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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and also <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>visiting my dear high school friends Kathy
Jamerison and Sharon Stillwagon last week <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in Springfield, Illinois, I had to say good bye and move on down the
road. Good or bad, it’s hard to say. <br />
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My adventures in this crazy universe, whether planned or off
the cuff, whether <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>positive or negative, make for a multitude of
stories, which are good or bad. It’s hard to say.<br />
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I believe the universe takes charge and sets the best path
for me, once I express my desires. (I think this is good.) So, I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cruised <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>south on I-57 headed for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>some quality writing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>time in Shawnee National Forest and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> tour </span><a href="https://www.enjoyillinois.com/explore/listing/garden-of-the-gods">The
Garden of the Gods</a> .<br />
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text from <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my friends Sally “Edwards”
Warnick and her husband, Michael, whom I had met last year as camp hosts at <a href="https://www.dnr.illinois.gov/Parks/Pages/GiantCity.aspx">Giant City State
Park</a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>near Carbondale, Illinois. Their text messaged asked, “Were you traveling south on I-57 two hours ago? ”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Small world. (This is good.) So, the universe opened up a campsite for them here at Lake Glendale and we’ve spent the last several days catching up. As new
homeowners in the area Sally and Michael became my tour guides. <br />
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If you follow my blogs, you already know I look on the
bright side and try to see only the goodness in world in which we live. This adventure
became not just friends sharing nature’s beauty, it is also became a tale of discovering
the beauty of human beings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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As we drove through the pastoral farmland of Southern
Illinois we discovered many small overlooked towns, whose values and community spirit are
the glue which holds our country together. Like the courthouse in Golconda,
Illinois <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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How about Marion, Illinois? Be sure to stop by the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/onlyatthemerc/">Southern Illinois <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mercantile</a> in Marion , Illinois. Check out
their Facebook page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The owners Tanya
and Ellen are examples of small-town living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not only is the Mercantile a shop that you can spend hours exploring
local made crafts and antiques and books by local authors <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they have melt-in-your-mouth <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>homemade ice cream too. But more importantly,
They are huge supporters and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>volunteers for
the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/veteranshonorflight/posts/">Veterans
Honor Flight of Southern Illinois</a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
have raised so much interest and support they are sponsoring TWO <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honor flights next year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Way to go Tanya and Ellen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Marion. Illinois!!<br />
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oohing and awing at the vistas and The Camel Rock formation, we began our short
hike down the path back to the truck.<br />
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A young girl, her hair braided and wearing a red-white- and
blue bandana as a headband hiked up the path, toward us as I announced to
Michael and Sally, “I would like to ride a camel someday.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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The girl’s male companion whose headband matched hers, followed close behind. From their
Harley attire I guessed they were touring southern Illinois on their Harleys.<br />
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As she passed, she looked at me and announced, “I had an affair.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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I swung around meeting her gaze. (That's bad, I thought.) Her male companion, too, had stopped, and was staring at her as if she had gone mad. Surely, she was
joking.<br />
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“You did?" I asked. " And why are you telling me you had an affair?” I glanced at her husband or boyfriend who still stood, his mouth agape,
waiting her answer.<br />
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Her eyes darted from me to him. She seemed as startled as everyone, but then burst into laughter. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Nooo!! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said, ‘I did at a fair!’” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She waited, studying our faces. “I rode a camel
… at <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> – </span> a – fair!”<br />
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Relief washed over the young man’s face and we all exploded
with laughter. (This is good, I thought.) We talked a few moments and I reached in my back-jean pocket for
my wallet to give them my business card.<br />
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My merriment switched to panic.<br />
My wallet was gone!<br />
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(This is definitely bad.) Hoping it came out of
my pocket in the truck, I hurried back to the parking lot. My mind insisted on jumping
to the worst-case scenarios -- I could have lost it
on the trail or at Cave In Rock or in the bathroom at the diner. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many possibilities. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (This is bad.)</span>We called the restaurant.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">My wallet was there. (This was definitely good.)</span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">After I had used the bathroom in the restaurant, t</span>he right woman, at the right time used the bathroom after me. She discovered my wallet and had turned it in.<br />
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I find a place like this when <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel like a misfit. When I doubt who I am
and where I am going, I <br />
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National Forest, but an environment like this. <br />
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I seek out a safe place where there <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is no judgement.</div>
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<span style="background-color: magenta;"><b>This is the energy of just being.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: magenta;"><b> Can you feel it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Notice how the trees unite as a forest and the minnows swimming
in the lake come together as schools, while the birds, with their swooping gracefulness, form flocks that shadow the sky. Each group exists, committed100% to just being
what they are</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: cyan; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">Unity</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The bird does not expect
the tree to fly and minnow has no desire to reach it fins up to the sky. Instead, because of just "being," the results of their unison have created a magical <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>union of beauty, shelter, song and sustenance
for one another Did this happen in an hour or within a mile?<br />
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</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="background-color: cyan;">What do you see when you look out your window?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b></b><span style="background-color: cyan;"></span><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b> </b></span><b>Unplug.</b></span>
Give yourself back to your beginnings, like the trees, the waters, and fowl have done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white; color: magenta; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b> Go back </b></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">to a
time when you were just striving to be a child, learning to walk, to explore
and you enjoyed the wide world that surrounded you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were no words in your vocabulary like
shouldn’t, couldn’t or wouldn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> L</span>ke this scene in all its glory, you were just a beautiful, one-of-a-kind
being, curious and accepting of all that the world offered. </span></span><br />
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What good does it do, you ask?</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKWSoM49PaqcKxyKa66uc98l4amZP-Z9hFFjRkam-G62QSvDGBjVqDwp4qmuNhtbfzEmKZjXjQILPmTfA-pvxDAFLCv_ggpliDV_tmfPV-hf8bvjFlhdyFqDb_rkyJ8py2_GvDyHXPjoc/s1600/MISSISSIPPI+RIVER+2+ITASCA+MN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: right; color: #0066cc; float: right; font-family: &quot; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKWSoM49PaqcKxyKa66uc98l4amZP-Z9hFFjRkam-G62QSvDGBjVqDwp4qmuNhtbfzEmKZjXjQILPmTfA-pvxDAFLCv_ggpliDV_tmfPV-hf8bvjFlhdyFqDb_rkyJ8py2_GvDyHXPjoc/s1600/MISSISSIPPI+RIVER+2+ITASCA+MN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></span></span>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sometimes it is good to remember where we have come from. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></span></span>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">We were once like the saplings in the forest, small and vulnerable,
struggling to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> become what they are meant to be. </span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we slow down, we will notice that the saplings
grow taller, wider and better. They strive to reach their purpose, stretching and swaying in the winds, just as we must learn
to do during our strife. </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Through the harsh winter the forest donates its leaves to
shelter the less hardy vegetation lying at its roots. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With total faith, the trees bare themselves, offering
their abundance in a fanfare of rainbow colors, unaware of the lesser plants’ promise
to return favor with the kindness of nourishment which the trees will need in
spring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: cyan; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Unity.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> The Mississippi River, at its’ widest it is eleven miles wide. Its waters flow over 2300 miles, through 31 states while hundreds
of tributaries, including the Ohio and Missouri rivers contribute to the Mississippi’s mightiness.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Does this historic ever flowing entity with its millions of raindrops
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potential? I don’t think so. I believe the river has become supreme because of her unquestioning faith and belief in its process as each raindrop, each tributary
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And yet I walked across this mighty body of water which rages
so strongly at times, that its massive power wipes out cities and towns in its wake.<br />
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only twenty feet wide.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> We all have humble beginnings.</span></div>
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In my journey I want to strive to become like the forests
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tracks. As a child I didn’t understand but when the train rolled by our neighborhood,
huffing and puffing, and sounding its long drawn out wail of a whistle as if
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instilled me with a wanderlust. The train brought the hobos, the bearded men in tattered
clothing who stole rides in the boxcars. They were off limits to my sister and me,
which only intrigued me more. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certain these
ragtime men could boast of unusual travels in far off places I imagined them visiting
the badlands populated with cops and robbers galloping through the rough terrain
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Train routes climb mountains, crawl across desserts and over
trestles with raging rivers or pounding ocean waves far below. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have all watched while we whizz by on the
flatland of the interstate while a team of two or three massive diesel engines,
like a viper’s head, pull a mile long length of boxcars as it snakes slowly across sometimes treacherous landscape. And haven’t we all envied the Engineer’s view?<br />
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Of course, I am not one to pass up a new adventure. My quest
took me to a small town named, Ione, in the state of Washington, thirteen miles
from the Canadian border. It is here that the Lions Club now offers an
opportunity to experience the scenery of Riding The Rails.<br />
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just a couple of miles outside of Ione. I scored this wonderful campsite with a
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and count my blessing. I may not have achieved all my dreams yet, but it’s days
like this that make my journey worthwhile. A trickling waterfall, the shade of
fresh scented pine, the love of Sportster and everything I need in my home on
wheels right beside me. I don’t think of another camper’s warning who has camped
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clouds and I thought a summer storm would be refreshing. I visited a historic
hotel which offered homemade ice cream and a tour. When I left the hotel to return
to the campground, I learned how changeable weather can be. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A summer storm was fully engaged as I expected,
but not a rainstorm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>HAIL!!<br />
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two hours. The route is a total of nine miles. The grade is 1.5%. That doesn’t
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Montana (I’m so sorry I’ve forgotten their names) I couldn’t have been teamed up
with anyone better. Their pastime is recumbent bicycling, which is like a bicycle
built for two, but low to the ground so that the bicyclists <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sit in
tandem, lean back and pedal, much like what we will be doing on the rail car. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They called me “Plus One.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was not another single to pair up with
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<a name='more'></a>Judy Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08244704258580134624noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338793728937786095.post-35170804481416435422019-07-23T10:54:00.000-07:002019-07-30T11:06:09.558-07:00Making the Impossible Possible<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_oFKwH5R06ycACuwLL6vWArgF3IEizNcTMKb2keLJQ9qMi_g-50BEYpXVxc0I3Cw2D6nUupvFutVrq0osZcINcsIydqnh1ppeJcU3jLIFtb27Bzl3CLMS4qJb8MkfomLhyGQMuUB7JLY/s1600/20190614_171106.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: left; color: #0066cc; float: left; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_oFKwH5R06ycACuwLL6vWArgF3IEizNcTMKb2keLJQ9qMi_g-50BEYpXVxc0I3Cw2D6nUupvFutVrq0osZcINcsIydqnh1ppeJcU3jLIFtb27Bzl3CLMS4qJb8MkfomLhyGQMuUB7JLY/s320/20190614_171106.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Traveling brings me home. I arrive at unexpected
places, feeling like I've come home -- places I never knew I had <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>yearned to experience. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These grandiose
vistas take my breath away. Their existence seem to me an impossibility of creation, teaching me that </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 200%;">anything that is worthwhile <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is possible...</span><br />
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money lay at my fingertips, I would consider myself poor if Mother Nature was
not within my reach to not offer her bountiful splendor. </span></div>
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This is Trillium Lake in Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon. Even
though the campgrounds were full I was lucky to have the luxury of staying in the overflow parking fifty
feet from this beautiful lake for five nights at $11.50 per
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my days writing and reading, walking the path that led the circumference of the
lake and sharing a campfire with neighboring campers.<br />
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Chetco Point, Brookings, Oregon: The ravages of the ocean<br />
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a cloudy, windy, rainy day make me wonder how anything survives when nature’s
anger challenges the world around us. The sea's power reminds me that I am but a
raindrop in force of the wind and the water. But I will not forget, without the
raindrop, no oceans or lakes would exist. Never underestimate your power of
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Just keep growing, no matter what storms or droughts come my way, I hope
to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>embrace my experiences and become stronger and
better. All I need to do is be me and strive to become great. Like the California redwoods and like Oregon’s
Mt Hood, the sky Is the limit! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> L</span>ike all
the rivers, lakes and oceans, they all began with one raindrop.<br />
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<span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">Janice’s older sister, Margaret, wanted to believe that the L.A. doctors at Cedars Sinai Medical Center held a magical deck of cards, but after eight years of treatment they dealt their final card. The Hospice card. No miracles for Margaret. Janice reassures her big sister she will be there, holding her hand every step of the way. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">On a death watch, you get to know things about a person you wish you didn’t. It is like a roller coaster ride. And like most rides, it brings us back to the place we began, reminding us of who we were and who we have become.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">The twists and turns of Janice’s emotional journey transports her back through the repercussions of her teen pregnancy and into the present estrangement from her daughter, whom she has not heard from for the last sixteen years.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Coming to terms with the grief of losing her sweet Margaret, and dealing with her fear of a lonely future is too much for Janice to imagine. When Margaret’s soul goes to rest in L.A. heaven, how will Janice face the emptiness? Will there be such a thing as a Grieving Gift?</span></span></span><br />
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Since 80% of Americans struggle with finding happiness in
their lives, I never feel alone when I have a down day. <br />
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I recently listened to a <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4CLxGDu6nR4J2ezWvu1tmB6cJjelqCzwli_KEh8yTX_vwZs7uHduof0mTWKnL5kB1BsXa2cU0LUAlhSnmvtErNfsRTOOofEvxaZCaiR3y9ZYRv0vj0uJGivSAtT6_rGXLeFcyZ8x1G10/s1600/happy+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: left; color: #0066cc; float: left; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="156" data-original-width="323" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4CLxGDu6nR4J2ezWvu1tmB6cJjelqCzwli_KEh8yTX_vwZs7uHduof0mTWKnL5kB1BsXa2cU0LUAlhSnmvtErNfsRTOOofEvxaZCaiR3y9ZYRv0vj0uJGivSAtT6_rGXLeFcyZ8x1G10/s320/happy+2.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a>Ted Talk by Dr. Robert Waldinger
who is the current director to the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.adultdevelopmentstudy.org/">Harvard Study of Adult
Development</a> . The project is the longest of its kind, an eighty -year
ongoing research project, which is studying the lives of two generations of people
in hopes of discovering ……<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: blue;">What Makes A Good Life?</span></span></b></div>
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After 80 years of research, they proved the prescription to
A Good Life is quite simple.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGj7nSmSjt5yf9Z0dlSriaqytnXXXj6R1Yw93KIOmDimgj-VBCEfPvEdgI2IjVqMlen0gcx45zf3_kI4NcbmYgiP2U7ch3l-TR892B_93siUcbiq5hgjfnqVVG52tlvMtLqt6rveYQiqo/s1600/happy+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: magenta;">Strong Satisfying Relationships =
Good Health = A Good Life</span></span></b></div>
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And yet we as Americans find this a hard pill to swallow.
Research revealed that being happy and experiencing a good life has become an
almost unreachable goal for us. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why are
20% of us reporting we feel lonely and a whopping 80% of us are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>saying we’re<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>dissatisfied with our jobs and our life?<br />
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The reason is we want a quick fix and relationships are
complex.<br />
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So, what constitutes a strong
satisfying relationship? The main ingredient is the security of knowing someone
has “got your back” in good times and bad times, in sickness and health, richer
or poorer. That feeling of security protects the brain, lessens pain, and cures
loneliness.</div>
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But Americans define success in materialistic terms. We
worship those who are rich and famous. Our youth aspire to live the life of the
jet set, to live in a mansion overlooking the beach, and to be world renown –
All of this encompasses the American Dream.<br />
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But with 80% of us experiencing discontentment, a new
movement is trending -- The Minimalist Movement, which focuses on living life
based on experiences rather than worldly possessions. <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Happiness does not
depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies on what you think.”</b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">–Buddha</b><br />
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<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-tiny-joyful-moments-c_n_4108363">Neuropsychologist</a>
Rick Hanson, author of<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Hardwiring
Happiness: The New Brain Science Of Contentment, Calm and Confidence</i>,
argues that the problem is we're wired to scout for the bad stuff.</div>
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I have talked about this phenomenon during my writing
seminar, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What Makes A Good Story? </i>Our
brain’s only purpose is to keep us alive, thus it is always anticipating what
MIGHT happen. I refer to the cave man whose brain searched behind every passible
tree, rock or bush in anticipation of danger. The novelist’s challenge is to
feed that tendency, keep the “what’s going to happen next?” tension going in
order to keep the reader … and the brain…interested and engaged. <br />
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Of course, tension and conflict are great for a bestselling book,
but in real life, worry and fear, along with tension and conflict guarantee a
rocky, steep and cumbersome <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>path to unhappiness, stress, loneliness and
bad health. <br />
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So, what is the formula to find calm
and contentment, security and faith that we travel stay on the correct course? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Check out <a href="https://www.marymorrissey.com/blog/daily-happiness-for-life/?div=pd&utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Broadcast&utm_campaign=POG_EVG&utm_content=Sustainable_Happiness&utm_term=D_2019_06_01_T_10_00_ET&inf_field_FirstName=&inf_field_Email=&contactId="><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">the author of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Building Your Field Of Dreams, </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Mary Morrissey</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and her 3-step challenge to happiness. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Decide to be happy.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGj7nSmSjt5yf9Z0dlSriaqytnXXXj6R1Yw93KIOmDimgj-VBCEfPvEdgI2IjVqMlen0gcx45zf3_kI4NcbmYgiP2U7ch3l-TR892B_93siUcbiq5hgjfnqVVG52tlvMtLqt6rveYQiqo/s1600/happy+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #0066cc; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGj7nSmSjt5yf9Z0dlSriaqytnXXXj6R1Yw93KIOmDimgj-VBCEfPvEdgI2IjVqMlen0gcx45zf3_kI4NcbmYgiP2U7ch3l-TR892B_93siUcbiq5hgjfnqVVG52tlvMtLqt6rveYQiqo/s1600/happy+1.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /></a> </span></div>
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Usually when I am down it is because I doubt who I am and
what I am doing. Compared to American standards I am not wealthy, although I do
live comfortably. I have no degree, so I ask myself, what do I really
know?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just how good of an author am I
without a degree?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I am not a spring
chicken and there is no rooster in sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now you are depressed about my life, too. Right?<br />
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So, here is what I do. <br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Knowing
that 80% of Americans are dissatisfied with their lives somehow makes me feel better. <b>I am not alone.</b></div>
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2.<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b>I
listen to music.</b> I play songs that pump me up. My favorites? The Neighbors, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’m On MY Way, </i>Jessica Mears, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This Girl Is On Fire,</i> and almost
anything of Jennifer Nettles but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Playing
With Fire </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stand Back Up </i>are
just a two of my favs. </div>
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read affirmations</b> which I have written.</div>
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4.<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>And
if nothing else works, <b>I get mad</b>. I go for a strenuous hike and work it off. </div>
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5. I C<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">hoose
a positive attitude. </b><br />
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Viktor Frankl, author of <i>Man’s Search For Meaning</i> wrote:
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged then to
change ourselves.”<br />
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I came across a story about a boy trying to put together a
jigsaw puzzle of the world. It was an intricate puzzle with many pieces and his
father was amazed the child assembled it so quickly. “How did you do that?” The
father asked. <br />
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“It was easy,” the boy said. There was a picture of a man on
the other side. I put together the man and then the world was fixed.”<br />
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6. “<b>I thank God for the good and the
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">seemingly bad.</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The
experiences in my life which</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believed were the worst that could happen to
a person ended up being the best things that ever happened to me.” When things
are dark, and I can see no way out I know it is only the way to a better place.
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The unpleasant experiences were what
I needed to experience, to grow, to discover new perspectives and become
stronger. I may not have achieved what I thought I wanted, but I always received
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what I needed. And what<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I needed was what I had really wanted all
along. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 7. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Trust
and believe is t</b>he final step to a good life. Do not to run away from
life’s challenges<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. </b>Some call it
faith. When I have no control to change the situation the only choice left is to
trust that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>everything is happening exactly
as it should </b>and believe that <b>there are no mistakes</b>.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: lime;">Be excited!</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> <span style="color: blue;">Take nothing for granted!</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> <span style="color: red;">Meet life head on!</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR </span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Judy Howard<o:p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Judy Howard’s writing career expands across many genres, including memoir, romantic mystery, reality fiction, travel and young adult, and now with THE GRIEVING GIFT, an autobiographical novel.<o:p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Judy lives full-time in her Winnebago motorhome with her cat, Sportster, traveling across the country as a motivational speaker and offering writing seminars.<o:p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The twists and turns of Janice’s emotional journey transports her back through the repercussions of her teen pregnancy and into the present estrangement from her daughter, whom she has not heard from for the last sixteen years.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Coming to terms with the grief of losing her sweet Margaret, and dealing with her fear of a lonely future is too much for Janice to imagine. When Margaret’s soul goes to rest in L.A. heaven, how will Janice face the emptiness? Will there be such a thing as a Grieving Gift?</span></span></span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Judy Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08244704258580134624noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338793728937786095.post-25668797186792180922019-03-22T15:22:00.001-07:002019-03-22T15:22:06.773-07:00<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span></b><br />
The “It” is destroying us!<br />
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Have you ever wanted something so bad, you could taste it,
smell it, even touch it? You think about it constantly. You become
envious of those who already have it. You imagine that the others may have
achieved it through underhanded means, or that they are just smarter and more
educated than you. You begin to wonder if you are chasing rainbows.
Maybe you should just forget it. Give up the quest. We’ve all been guilty
of wanting “it” so much that “it” drives us crazy. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1geM0l4Nid1d7FZnpclKpUSkgXGsF7zrPG_i6gH6o2K3ZbFfMf-0pZenTuVxTBritY8_U5GFJeit4NqOgovVkwdwjXsWf14iWkWOKXuoyiecuJ1YGxqLJVWfl4wDsWlt3whfYLg7eh-g/s1600/PENNYWISE.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>The “IT” is on the rise and destroying us. The "IT" which I am referring to is not the evil Pennywise the clown preying on our children, although the new trend I am about to talk about is affecting our children as well as us.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1geM0l4Nid1d7FZnpclKpUSkgXGsF7zrPG_i6gH6o2K3ZbFfMf-0pZenTuVxTBritY8_U5GFJeit4NqOgovVkwdwjXsWf14iWkWOKXuoyiecuJ1YGxqLJVWfl4wDsWlt3whfYLg7eh-g/s1600/PENNYWISE.png" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: left; color: #0066cc; float: left; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></a>A Gallup poll reported that 8 in 10 Americans are afflicted
by stress. Only 17% say they rarely feel stressed, while just a scant 4% say
they never feel stressed.<br />
These statistics have given rise to what the folks at Thrive
Global.com has described as an “Anxiety Economy,” and an “I’ll try
anything culture.” <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgigPAWOqr-ugu1UBHEQ-IujKMCqQfk7Wn581i59YyYDCnvND2Y1S4PT7w8RviYOYHjH9VTVvzqx1GHW-36w_PKdxwEkmgzJ3oSDcjz1iBGklDLfj9xSof-tL-eTdddKCDCLzncXBWyZXg/s1600/LAVENDER+LOTION.png" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: right; color: #0066cc; float: right; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></a>Not only are we stressed about our jobs, children, money and
love, but we also are suffering from a term the folks at Thrive Global.com have
coined, “The Calmivore’s Dilemma. The Calmivore’s Dilemma is our increasingly
stressful search for CALM, to help us overcome our exhaustion, inefficiency,
insomnia, and irritability as well as, heart disease and compromised immune
systems — all side effects of stress.<br />
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In life nothing remains the same. Adapting to change, even
though we may not welcome the shift, is our only guarantee of maintaining a
contented and happy life without stress. We have all been there, thinking
everything is running smooth. You got this complicated thing called ‘the
meaning of life’ all figured out. You are walking around with your head held
way up high. Life is good. <br />
<br />
And then, suddenly, something fools you, hits you, really
takes you by surprise. And it has your whole world shook up. No,
I’m not saying it’s the “Love Bug,” which George Strait sings about …. usually
it is something not as pleasant and exciting.<br />
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I am referring to incidences sometimes as simple as a
flat tire which makes you late for an important meeting or a bad test grade
which threatens your grade point average. But, even falling in love can be
stressful. <br />
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So, how do you adapt? How do you change your focus?
Our brain’s function is to keep us comfortable and safe, so change is
never easy. I am a stubborn, bullheaded Taurus, who wants what she wants,
exactly when she wants it and I don’t give up easily. <br />
<br />
I am stubborn, opinionated and want what I want when I want
it and I am not prone to giving up. Whether my tenaciousness is inherent or
borne of my opinionated single-mindedness, when I cling to this attitude, I
create unbearable stress for myself.<br />
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<b>So, what is the answer?</b></div>
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<b>Get healthy, get honest and get humble.</b></div>
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<b>Exercise.</b>Most of us know that working out is the most effective
stress reliever. Not only does it benefit us physically but also mentally by
increasing our serotonin levels. If we get moving, we can’t help but feel
better, even though the dynamics of our situation may not change. <br />
<br />
I am not a health nut. I abhor the gym. I consider it
stinky, sweaty, and claustrophobic. As I watch all the young, tight-assed gals,
with their tied-up pony tails, their ear buds, staring into nothingness, and
clutching their bottle of Pellegrino, the place leaves me feeling not good
enough. <br />
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The male tight-butts do not ease my inferior feelings
because I imagine them leaving the gym and rushing to their mani-pedi
appointments. <br />
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I work out in the privacy of my motor home.
I stay flexible with a 40 minute yoga routine, which I may or may not do
every day. Minimally, I stretch through the routine about 2-3 times a week. <br />
<br />
I also walk or hike. I am not a fanatic, I
don’t shoot for 10,000 steps, but the RV lifestyle offers plenty of
opportunities to walk or hike. Sometimes it is only walking to the trash bin
which they always at the far corner of a campground while other times there is
always a local easy, scenic hiking trail nearby. <br />
To feel good, I need to get off the couch.<br />
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<b>Get honest</b>. When I was young, and even more hard headed, I
thought I knew all the answers. I recall a time in my life describing my
dissatisfaction about my single status to a couple celebrating fifty years of
marital bliss. I asked them to what they attributed the longevity of their
marriage.<br />
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“You each have to give 100%.” They said. I also
remember hearing my mind’s door slamming shut. I had to be honest. I didn’t
want a relationship bad enough to make the sacrifice. Today I make certain that
what I want, I want bad enough to get off the couch and sacrifice my
comfortable lifestyle.<br />
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<b>Be humble</b>. A lifestyle without humility is packed with stress. The
attitude requires a constant effort to prove, not only to yourself but also
others, that you are great. Becoming humble cannot be achieved if
you’ve pulled it off. When I was young, I knew all the
answers. My way was the only way. I only learned the limitations of my attitude
by falling off my high horse and failing. Only then did I discover there just
might be at least a different way if not a better way…. if I get back up and
don’t give up.<br />
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<b>So, here’s the secret.</b> Get off the “feel-sorry-for-myself
couch.” Stave off the stress with exercise and pump up the serotonin.
Be honest with yourself. How badly do you want what you want? Making changes
requires effort. Lofty goals mean long term sacrifices. Be humble.<br />
<br />
We all will fail along the way. A baby falls many
times learning to walk. The child doesn’t need Prescription Drugs, CBD Oil,
Meditation, Acupuncture, Weighted Blankets, or Lavender Lotion. He
may cry, but he struggles back up on wobbly legs and tries again. A
toddler isn’t motivated by what he should do, but only by an inner, innate
drive to reach for a better way than crawling.<br />
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“want-what-you-want desires” that will seem too far away to be possible…<br />
Those dreams are a
gift from the universe, God, or whoever or whatever you
acknowledge that is bigger and more powerful than yourself… a place connected
to your heart that knows everything and knows <b>you are capable.…… if you stay
healthy, honest and humble.</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Janice’s older sister, Margaret, wanted to believe that the L.A. doctors at Cedars Sinai Medical Center held a magical deck of cards, but after eight years of treatment they dealt their final card. The Hospice card. No miracles for Margaret. Janice reassures her big sister she will be there, holding her hand every step of the way. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The twists and turns of Janice’s emotional journey transports her back through the repercussions of her teen pregnancy and into the present estrangement from her daughter, whom she has not heard from for the last sixteen years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Coming to terms with the grief of losing her sweet Margaret, and dealing with her fear of a lonely future is too much for Janice to imagine. When Margaret’s soul goes to rest in L.A. heaven, how will Janice face the emptiness? Will there be such a thing as a Grieving Gift?</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Judy Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08244704258580134624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338793728937786095.post-54638837142559381782019-03-11T06:00:00.000-07:002019-03-11T16:24:38.206-07:00It's A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood!<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-92HCA0FuC3qc5Ncga8ZO0G7gKoobr60jy-_eckU8GOQ4kNt9tbw4UF1OoUFJdiUnOrSw9sO0o62KdL6qKmsfP_isoka-L7syCO8Z5p4oPpHwvZybGA-uqp88GL0k3zhFG66CPm3Lt2I/s1600/TIME+MACHINE+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="120" data-original-width="169" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-92HCA0FuC3qc5Ncga8ZO0G7gKoobr60jy-_eckU8GOQ4kNt9tbw4UF1OoUFJdiUnOrSw9sO0o62KdL6qKmsfP_isoka-L7syCO8Z5p4oPpHwvZybGA-uqp88GL0k3zhFG66CPm3Lt2I/s320/TIME+MACHINE+1.png" width="320" /></a><br />
I discovered<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a time
machine!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What? No!<br />
It doesn’t send me
back in time. The device doesn’t transport me to the future either. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My new breakthrough has propelled me into a
realm in which few people choose to go, and if they do, they rarely stay. It is
called …. The Present.<br />
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When I live in The Present, I reside in a neighborhood in
which time seems to stand still and yet passes unawares. I call it THE EDGE.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv6vv2nSI0G5FkBNG2OnpCC3Y6btT7CRDjS4JKvP_JRy1gys1pEULSiy6cVHuDpfv8qZBvCo7DWo3nuF4FC56hkMVGgUipoqjlTtDIBPW20S6sKpHZ7_vfGZaHziSeNdmG3c5ePq6zFE8/s1600/THE+EDGE2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv6vv2nSI0G5FkBNG2OnpCC3Y6btT7CRDjS4JKvP_JRy1gys1pEULSiy6cVHuDpfv8qZBvCo7DWo3nuF4FC56hkMVGgUipoqjlTtDIBPW20S6sKpHZ7_vfGZaHziSeNdmG3c5ePq6zFE8/s1600/THE+EDGE2.jpg" /></a>Stepping
up to THE EDGE with both feet makes it impossible to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>focus on yesterday’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>should haves, would haves, or could haves. With
my feet planted firmly in the ‘right now,’ my toes curling around THE EDGE, there is no room for me to consider the what ifs or the questions of when or how.<br />
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Years ago, after I rescued Sportster, I became intrigued
with his “neighborhood of the woods.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every
day he showed me how beautiful a day could be within his stomping grounds. I
imagined him singing Mr. Rogers’ song, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It’s
a beautiful day in the neighborhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Won’t you please be my neighbor?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Would you be mine?”</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He didn't sleeep bothered by his past, nor did he worry about
what his may future hold. I never observe him lying awake worrying about whether he is “good enough.” <br />
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neighborhood, in which Sportster’s is only a suburb. Mother nature holds the past
in her tree bark and the future in the desert’s blossoms. She stands before me,
silent and self-assured. She cannot talk but her gestures are grand. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mother nature just IS. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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rhythm her ocean’s breathing and float with her drifting sands. Like
Sportster on a sleepy Sunday morning, I can let go of time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And like magic, time becomes bountiful.<br />
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Are you ready? Hop into your own time machine. Press the “on
button” labeled ‘Let Go.”<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3mqhHkzXPkpRn6d_eF07pxr-rwpEMdbQw9zDj2hkzTwXvjIpQMb486Fyhthyphenhyphen2K_1weTyDu2ynqH0rNYNoVIvuRqBqMgH7v5hqC30lNWJ8ka8sRImuLTq-p5by8vSw7peaLeDERlIuUg8/s1600/IMAG0194.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: left; color: #0066cc; float: left; font-family: &quot; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3mqhHkzXPkpRn6d_eF07pxr-rwpEMdbQw9zDj2hkzTwXvjIpQMb486Fyhthyphenhyphen2K_1weTyDu2ynqH0rNYNoVIvuRqBqMgH7v5hqC30lNWJ8ka8sRImuLTq-p5by8vSw7peaLeDERlIuUg8/s200/IMAG0194.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="150" /></a><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plug in! Fire
up! Absorb the powerful energy of nature’s mountain ranges, the dominion of the
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bewitching realm of unlimited time. You may feel small and vulnerable -- a
stranger in their neighborhood, but if you stay for a while, you will burst
with a unique power in which all the money in the world cannot buy, nor can all
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<span style="font-size: medium;">As I publish my newest blog series<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, “The Story Behind The Story,”</b> it is my hope that we all might connect on some level.</span><br />
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finished writing and publishing my first book, COAST TO COAST WITH A CAT AND A GHOST, a memoir, I held the book in my hands. My fingers feathered over its glossy cover
and thumbed through the pages, touching the words on the pages … so many of
them… and I cried. The tears came from disbelief, humility, and a deep satisfaction and empowerment. How did
this happen? When I gathered my senses. I knew one thing. I was hooked on
writing. I had found the answer to that question I had been asking all my life,
‘Is this all there is?’</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
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the book in my hand, it became a crystal ball, pulsing, glowing and alluring. The
orb held my voice, a part of me, of who I am, an expression of me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had things to say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Words swirled within the crystal, like a pot
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>alphabet soup, the letters churning
and boiling, threatening to boil over if I did not find a release for them. The
compulsion to write was too strong to ignore.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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write? COAST TO CAOST WITH A CAT AND A GHOST
was a memoir. I figured anyone could write their own story. I felt I had
nothing more to say about my past. I had been estranged from my daughter for
over ten years, so I had no stories with happy endings. I wondered if I could make something up. And
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realized by now I am what is called in
the writing world as a ‘Pantser,’ someone who writes by the seat of her pants,
which aligns will my compulsive personality. My sister, a reserved and
controlled individual, once said to me, “You amaze me. You decide to do
something that you have never done before and know nothing about, and then you
just do it.” That’s me.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: black;">I decided to
write a mystery-romance. Because COAST TO COAST was selling and receiving rave reviews,
I wanted to retain the RVing theme and keep the main character, Judy Howard,
but make her fictional. And of course,
the cat, Sportster would continue to add his antics and the stuffed doll known as Cowboy Jack would not let up haunting my protagonist.</span></span></span></div>
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would have a series! And what better
universal issue to address? My story would bring to the forefront the question
many of us have pondered -- What if you
had a second chance to reunite with your first love, your high school
sweetheart? </span></span></span></div>
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write what they know, not that I ever reunited with my first love. But we
infuse the story with feelings we have experienced. Just change up the real people,
places and outcomes with fictional
characters, imagined, tangled up
situations and a happy, Camelot
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<span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: black;">As I wrote
GOING HOME WITH A CAT AND A GHOST, I imagined my first love and created the character, Brad. I offered
my fictional character, Judy, a second ,chance but only if she found the
courage to jump through the mysterious entanglements of her fictional life.</span></span></div>
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fiction became magical and rewarding, I could escape into a fantasy world of my
own making and play with my own desires. The real-life boyfriend? I had no idea
where he was or what had become of him, but the boy who had lived in my mind all these years
now came alive on paper. What fun!</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: black;">I fell in
love all over again –with Brad. I couldn’t let him go. As my writing progressed, Brad lived on in books three and four. There
is a saying. “If an author loves you, you will live forever.” </span></span></div>
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WITH A CAT AND A GHOST became a hit like the first book. My confidence soared. I was on my way. I was a real author. I believed this newly discovered gift came
with a responsibility. My talent was not only to be
used for entertainment but also for a higher
good – to change the world, to make it a better place. Authors can change things. The written word can be as powerful as a
bullet and as life changing as love.</span></span><br />
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WITH A CAT AND A GHOST had been a fun
fantasy and a romantic and exciting mystery to write. But I resolved to respect
the gift I had discovered and tackle the
responsibility that goes with writing and attempt to make the world better. My
next book MASADA’S MARINE would do just that. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivvOVcrs9S0ny8YUQfNHtiTjqa16JEC_F-WnE1RbGwQV3dFfsUyj8jU-kth6wBUnU2RK4wuUPsv3yxAOKsA-Mz6wRFnUdNZT5yVL2ZDtpSkPxYhTWvsl_l8Bxp5CVVuOztPm-T9FT4bkc/s1600/517VJPEl1WL__AA160_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: right; color: #0066cc; float: right; font-family: &quot; font-size: 18.06px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivvOVcrs9S0ny8YUQfNHtiTjqa16JEC_F-WnE1RbGwQV3dFfsUyj8jU-kth6wBUnU2RK4wuUPsv3yxAOKsA-Mz6wRFnUdNZT5yVL2ZDtpSkPxYhTWvsl_l8Bxp5CVVuOztPm-T9FT4bkc/s1600/517VJPEl1WL__AA160_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #0066cc; float: left; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></a><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivvOVcrs9S0ny8YUQfNHtiTjqa16JEC_F-WnE1RbGwQV3dFfsUyj8jU-kth6wBUnU2RK4wuUPsv3yxAOKsA-Mz6wRFnUdNZT5yVL2ZDtpSkPxYhTWvsl_l8Bxp5CVVuOztPm-T9FT4bkc/s1600/517VJPEl1WL__AA160_.jpg" /></span></span><br />
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a recently widowed woman who travels in her Winnebago motorhome from California
to Illinois to attend her 40<sup>th</sup> high school reunion by the invitation
of her first love, Brad. She makes the
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after fleeing from family and Brad forty years ago to escape the shame and horror
of an illegal abortion as the result of being drugged and date raped at the age
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and made a life for herself for the last forty years but was always haunted by
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to confront her lifelong question of “What if..?” arises when her husband dies
and Brad invites her to their 40th high school reunion. Gathering up her shaky
courage, Judy heads home to face her past…and who knows? – Her future?</span></span></div>
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lived the last four decades married only to the police force, obsessed with
investigating and capturing the biggest drug dealer in the Midwest called Pit
Bull. Brad, too, has lived his life with regrets and guilt, always tortured
with his own “What ifs?” When he invites Judy to the reunion his mind is made
up. He will not waste another moment wondering. He is going to pursue the love
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career, they are both confronted with the past when Pit Bull threatens to put
an end, not only to the mysteries of the past, but Brad and Judy’s future.</span></span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Judy Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08244704258580134624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338793728937786095.post-63428985196376273742019-01-31T08:42:00.001-08:002019-02-11T12:29:48.643-08:00What will tommorrow bring?<br />
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What will tomorrow bring?</div>
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Do you fantasize about
writing a book?</div>
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Do you nurse an outrageous dream</div>
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to run your own company some
day? </div>
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Yet does it all seem foolish to dream big?</div>
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Do you think Arnold Schwarzenegger got up one morning and
said I am going to be Governor of California? Of course not. He began at the
age of 15 as a body builder. To this day he is known as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">one of the greatest body builders of all time</b>. But this was only
phase one of his life.<br />
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continued on, gaining world-wide fame as a Hollywood action film icon known as
Conan The Barbarian and The Terminator. <span style="color: black; line-height: 200%;">It was not until<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the age of 46 that he was sworn in as
Governor of California. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 200%;"> He took on many careers and achieved numerous
titles from Mr. Olympia, Conan The Barbarian, The Terminator, and the
Governator. Add filmmaker, author and philanthropist to the phases of his life
and you have to ask, “How did he navigate through the stages in his life?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arnold
did not plan the life he led</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Today I will be a world class body builder
and then become The Terminator and then the governor of California.”<br />
<span style="color: black; line-height: 200%;">Arnold was malleable.</span><br />
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Malleable is having the ability to adapt.<br />
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life as a pet groomer would lead me to becoming a top-ranking author.<br />
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Dreams or no dreams, life is always moving, wherever we are today
is not where we will be tomorrow, or the next day, or the next year. <br />
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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s achievements did not spring from a
higher education, prestige, or riches. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
diploma for his achievements was borne from his own humble beliefs <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>and
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>simple values. These ideas and
perspectives are not only free but are available to each of us. Try them out.<br />
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</span></span></span>Strength does not come from winning. Your
struggles develop your str<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuvXVaGszVaypO6EJzt7_qYPn3nzvAlqjZCuEghjReechvpyGALaSJhjGbT3fZ1qJTmKWKyURkLln9tBHbtM78Z93Urpjb0XPbjC0eXrO7IR77TYNC7aB2FpdzWLoR0JcMHG5d6QZE698/s1600/imagesKKMG2A3Y.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: right; color: #0066cc; float: right; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></a>engths. When you go through hardships and decide not
to surrender, that is strength. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuvXVaGszVaypO6EJzt7_qYPn3nzvAlqjZCuEghjReechvpyGALaSJhjGbT3fZ1qJTmKWKyURkLln9tBHbtM78Z93Urpjb0XPbjC0eXrO7IR77TYNC7aB2FpdzWLoR0JcMHG5d6QZE698/s1600/imagesKKMG2A3Y.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: left; color: #0066cc; float: left; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></a><span style="color: red;"><b> Never give </b><b>up. Finish it.</b></span></div>
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2.What is the point of being on this earth if you
are going to be like everyone else? If you are trying to be like everyone else,
you are not living to your full potential. <br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"> Break the barriers, Ignore the limits.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The death of Judy Howard’s husband gave the author a wake up call. Life is short. Howard sold her pet grooming business, which she had operated since the age of eleven and engaged full throttle into her new passions of writing and traveling.<o:p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Judy Howard’s writing career expands across many genres, including memoir, romantic mystery, reality fiction, travel and young adult, and now with THE GRIEVING GIFT, an autobiographical novel.<o:p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In all of Howard’s books the theme is always the same - overcoming life’s difficulties.<o:p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Judy lives full-time in her Winnebago motorhome with her cat, Sportster, traveling across the country as a motivational speaker and offering writing seminars.<o:p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk534260162"><span style="font-size: large;">Happy New Year everyone! What does this time of year mean to </span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><u>you? </u></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiABiUUcSXWDnherrpaKHltORNTBKRWbsM32ERFlNo9tQfLqJXwGCGsXYjStJct-MwGCPvTXQCJIk2QUyY7-yevFkQrlYOS2dq3LuCSH6j606Q78QkjHToi5Ka28cJQ8iTgGD5Cwo89hDg/s1600/new+year.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="121" data-original-width="161" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiABiUUcSXWDnherrpaKHltORNTBKRWbsM32ERFlNo9tQfLqJXwGCGsXYjStJct-MwGCPvTXQCJIk2QUyY7-yevFkQrlYOS2dq3LuCSH6j606Q78QkjHToi5Ka28cJQ8iTgGD5Cwo89hDg/s320/new+year.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">The new year
brings a chance for me to look back at who I was
a year ago and examine and
understand my journey up to this moment of time. By understanding
the past, we can open up to the future and embrace the
next exciting chapter of life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Polls report that
only one-third of us make new year resolutions, and that the 70% of us who do, believe that our
lives next year will remain the same,
neither getting better, nor getting
worse. No wonder our resolutions never come to fruition!</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTgP1sWaHOBZ-I0kv6iAHfgiS3hGeSYVWmJVBDR2egIHQq4_iUdYBCBLVxbh3Tzrup8SWOMksPB43FVYh8EmAK5czHZnp0RGGE5IGHuw4QG31cx5KO56yGHcjQfE3CYvhjzbvRVZyIskU/s1600/snoopy+writer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTgP1sWaHOBZ-I0kv6iAHfgiS3hGeSYVWmJVBDR2egIHQq4_iUdYBCBLVxbh3Tzrup8SWOMksPB43FVYh8EmAK5czHZnp0RGGE5IGHuw4QG31cx5KO56yGHcjQfE3CYvhjzbvRVZyIskU/s1600/snoopy+writer.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Life is too
precious to only exist, to be static. I want to look forward to tomorrow. I
want more -- more adventure and more excitement. I want to give more, meet more strangers and get to know them. Most of all, I want to make a difference. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whether some one is
a farmer , or barber or long haul trucker, we all struggle through life’s challenges and changes. How do some of us learn to
rise up and thrive while others only exist?
How did someone like me who worked as a pet groomer since the age of eleven,
become the author of six books, to date? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I relate my newest blog series<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, “The Story Behind The Story,”</b>
it is my hope that we all might connect
on some level.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enjoy my musings
and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“The Story Behind The Story</b>.” in the process, I hope you might gain
understanding and encouragement for your own journey.</span><br />
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public have considered writing a book,
the thought never entered my mind. I had things to say, but those jumbled ideas swarmed
inside my head, like ping pong balls ricocheting around in a lottery machine. Whatever kind of lucky
number destined to roll out in front of
me, becoming an author had never been a
consideration. 2010 found me content
with my life, contemplating retirement
from my pet grooming business. Anticipating
the free time, I signed up for a creative writing class. I thought it would be fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>The first exercise in my creative writing class
was to write for ten minutes about the color red. The task
perplexed me. What could any one say about the color red for ten minutes? But striving
to be a good student, I put my pen to paper and began.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> An amazing thing happened! When I sat down to write, the words, the
stories, the books ---they had all been
there in my mind, waiting for me to access them. They flooded out onto the paper like a flash flood busting
loose from its dam. I was on my way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maybe it is not
writing you dream about. Perhaps you have toyed with another passion which seems just as foolish. Sit down. Paint that landscape, or take a
woodworking class or volunteer at your child’
school . What ever your niggling desire, feed it. You will be inspired.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I intended <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Coast To
Coast With A Cat And A Ghost</i> to be an adventurous travel log, a how to book of a widow woman traveling in a
motorhome across country with her cat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A quiet voice guided me as I wrote <i>Coast</i> <i>To
Coast With A Cat And A Ghost. </i> Today
I believe the guidance came from something bigger and more knowing
than me. The messages come in a friend’s advice, “You ought to write a book
about that,” or from a passerby who says, "You have inspired me," or sometimes it is a feeling. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">No matter that no one else hears, it only matters that I hear the guidance. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The voice has grown stronger, louder. It no longer lives in my head but has taken up residence in my
heart. When I am afraid and feeling too vulnerable to pour out my secrets on paper, the voice assures me that the story I am
writing is not mine , but instead, it
belongs to everyone. And so, I trudge on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> When I wrote <i>Coast To Coast</i> I had only wanted the story to be a simple travel log. Yet, this driving force in my head and now my heart, insisted that the story was bigger than I imagined -- that it was
a story to instill hope in others, a story to make the
rough road others traveled a little smoother. This passion which pushes me onward insisted that the story be one which will make a difference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I wrote, the real story evolved. The tale did not
focus on the negative aspects -- the physical
challenges of a lonely widow, facing unknown obstacles. Instead the message zeroed in on my reactions to the fears and doubts as I confronted them. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">The message became, "Life’s
challenges mold us." If we can find the fortitude to keep on, we will survive and
evolve courageous and strong .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today I have the faith and am encouraged that tomorrow’s adventures will change
me. Nothing ever stays the same. There is no
status quo.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> If I express who I am, I blossom. I heal. I become more. And most important, through my expression I help others to find their way. </span><br />
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too much for Janice to imagine. When Margaret’s soul goes to rest in L.A.
heaven, how will Janice face the emptiness? Will there be such a thing as a
Grieving Gift?<br />
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reach for higher ground. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Like you, l have dates <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in which I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>take pause to remember, life changing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>experiences, like my first love, the
birth<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of my daughter, and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the deaths of my family members. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Today is one of those days. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlIEAeu8WaSKvt_nocnWNTUXE0_1cZoacbaINSgBONhXGj2n91AGXk_DM4hxhTdtdafogVzjYGGWEwSY5Z5WiH4j8AxLaVF36HWPdQEyRWjM2AdaJNv4aAyjo3ked2ZO2hPFPFPgsueZU/s1600/20180729_211928.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="209" data-original-width="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlIEAeu8WaSKvt_nocnWNTUXE0_1cZoacbaINSgBONhXGj2n91AGXk_DM4hxhTdtdafogVzjYGGWEwSY5Z5WiH4j8AxLaVF36HWPdQEyRWjM2AdaJNv4aAyjo3ked2ZO2hPFPFPgsueZU/s1600/20180729_211928.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Fourteen years ago <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
said goodbye to my husband of twenty-five years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man who loved me more than words could say
and hurt me in ways that made me stronger than I ever dreamed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a man whose x-ray eyes melted my armor
and taught me what love really is. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On this date, August 14, <sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fourteen years ago, I set out to learn how to
survive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never expected to do anything more. To
imagine more, seemed impossible. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For months I cried out, fighting <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
heartache which had left the bedroom light on, preventing sleep. Somehow, through
my suffering, I found the strength to shove the tear soaked pillow aside and I rose
to the days’ challenges. And day by day the magical wonderment of a new life opened
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I died a hundred times from fear during my first solo motor home
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">country from California to Florida, but in the process, but I found
strength not just to survive but to live big and large. I created a life which many envy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a flat tire, and others devastating, like the loss of a loved one. Each one is
life changing, the flat tire as much as the stabs to the heart. The flat tire may have allowed me to avoid a deadly car accident. the hurt to my heart healed, making me able to love even more.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time moves on. New
heartaches and recent losses still come my way. Each new challenge trumps the
one before, cutting deeper and lasting longer. I may cry night after night <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from
the injustice of it all, but <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the
end, the experiences open my eyes wider, make my courage stronger and my
amazement of life’s intricacies awe-inspiring. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Janice’s older sister, Margaret, wanted to believe that the L.A. doctors at Cedars Sinai Medical Center held a magical deck of cards, but after eight years of treatment they dealt their final card. The Hospice card. No miracles for Margaret. Janice reassures her big sister she will be there, holding her hand every step of the way.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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On a death watch, you get to know things about a person you wish you didn’t. It is like a roller coaster ride. And like most rides, it brings us back to the place we began, reminding us of who we were and who we have become.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Coming to terms with the grief of losing her sweet Margaret, and dealing with her fear of a lonely future is too much for Janice to imagine. When Margaret’s soul goes to rest in L.A. heaven, how will Janice face the emptiness? Will there be such a thing as a Grieving Gift?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are living in a brave new world in which we can no longer
determine what life will be like in 20, 10 or even 5 years from now. For many
of us the struggle to make it in this fast moving, nano second world is
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our lives are controlled by algorithms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are algorithms really? They are a set of
impersonal rules determined by a computer’s presumption that its calculations
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<span style="font-size: large;">But that theory is exactly the wrench in the gears as we old timers
would say. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The trouble is we are human beings. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I agree, Netflix does a darned
good job of figuring out what movies I like, until I get in a mood and want
something different. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The problem is our souls are created to break the
norm, to seek the less traveled path, and reach for the impossible. We cannot
survive any other way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not only are Facebook and Microsoft, and the stock market <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reading our minds and our actions and telling
us what we think and what we should want, what we should be afraid of and what
we should trust, those rules are changing in nano seconds. How fast is that? A
nano second is one billionth of a second. (And tomorrow it will be pico seconds
which are one trillionth of a second.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Stay true to yourself</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I stand at
the edge of the flood swollen river rushing past, I see no reason to jump in
and join the fallen trees and rubbish which has succumbed to its powerful
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<span style="font-size: large;">Staying true to the voice which no one else can hear has
been the scariest, craziest and hardest feat I have tackled in my
lifetime. Just telling you probably suggests you should be questioning my sanity,
right? But consider this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>We are the only species that finds it a monumental
task to just be who we are.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Why? Because we don't know who we are. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">I was lucky. My parents never warned me to be careful. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">They never told me I had been a sinner but was
forgiven, or that sex was bad or dirty.</span><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;">My daddy once said, “You don’t have to call him God, but after observing
this vast universe, the changing seasons, the billions of creatures, the stars
and the moon moving across the night sky, and the complexity of the human body,
surely you must believe there is something bigger than yourself who is running
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<span style="font-size: large;">So now I try to trust the voice that whispers to me at night
when everyone sleeps or when I stand by a mighty mountain or a quiet stream. It
is then I am grateful I didn’t covet the big screen TV, or freeze in the fear
of the unknown, or bend to another’s approval.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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only way to survive in this nano second, soon to be pico second universe. I am
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many times I am left
with doubt, fear, and yes questioning my own sanity, while the world rushes by
like the river, only to disappear and merge into the sea losing the uniqueness
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<span style="font-size: large;">So my answer to living in this fast paced world is the same
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Janice’s older sister, Margaret, wanted to believe that the L.A. doctors at Cedars Sinai Medical Center held a magical deck of cards, but after eight years of treatment they dealt their final card. The Hospice card. No miracles for Margaret. Janice reassures her big sister she will be there, holding her hand every step of the way.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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On a death watch, you get to know things about a person you wish you didn’t. It is like a roller coaster ride. And like most rides, it brings us back to the place we began, reminding us of who we were and who we have become.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The twists and turns of Janice’s emotional journey transports her back through the repercussions of her teen pregnancy and into the present estrangement from her daughter, whom she has not heard from for the last sixteen years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Coming to terms with the grief of losing her sweet Margaret, and dealing with her fear of a lonely future is too much for Janice to imagine. When Margaret’s soul goes to rest in L.A. heaven, how will Janice face the emptiness? Will there be such a thing as a Grieving Gift?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Judy Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08244704258580134624noreply@blogger.com3Pender, NE 68047, USA42.1141648 -96.70725849999996642.0906053 -96.747598999999965 42.137724299999995 -96.666917999999967tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338793728937786095.post-84093597922708186242018-07-18T07:58:00.000-07:002018-07-27T09:50:01.146-07:00The 40 Percent Solution<br />
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witted, chronically ill, and a drain on society. I am over 70. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">An abundance of money, which has been proven not to be a
source of happiness, is still considered a status symbol. I do not have a lot of
money. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Uneducated people are not taken seriously. I do not have a
college degree. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Like a lack of education and money, having an abundance of
time is considered shameful. I have a lot of time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">All of these beliefs are untrue, yet by America’s
standards, I am not considered successful and to finish me off, I should not be
happy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, the people I meet have
called me a firecracker, an alligator, fiercely independent and have described me
as whooshing into a room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most common
description of me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s an INSPIRATION.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I can’t explain people’s reactions to me. It is as if a label
were tattooed on my forehead. This curious responses have me baffled. My only
explanation is that I do not fit their expectations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://sonjalyubomirsky.com/">Sonja Lyubomirsky</a>
a psychologist at the University of California, Riverside proposes that roughly
50 percent of happiness is determined by genes (i.e., totally out of your
control). I am convinced I wasn’t born with happy genes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fought depression during much of my adult
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Roughly 10 percent
of a person’s happiness is determined by circumstance (i.e., somewhat out of
your control). A death or disaster or famine and illness can douse the happy spark.
I have certainly had my share of circumstances and even considered suicide. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The final 40 percent chance at happiness is determined by
your thoughts, actions, and attitudes (i.e., entirely within your control). You
can see why Lyubomirsky titled her research, The 40 Percent Solution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Wouldn’t it seem that the United States, which celebrates so
much abundance and success, (<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/charts-to-make-you-proud-to-be-an-american-2014-7">27
Things Which America Is Ranked Number One</a>) would also have the happiest
people residing within its borders?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But it is not so. America recently ranked 18th in the
U.N.’s <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2017/03/happiness-declining-in-the-u-s-according-to-a-report-sad.html?edit=true"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">“World
Happiness Report,”</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">52 percent of students reported feeling hopeless, while 39
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Janice’s older sister, Margaret, wanted to believe that the L.A. doctors at Cedars Sinai Medical Center held a magical deck of cards, but after eight years of treatment they dealt their final card. The Hospice card. No miracles for Margaret. Janice reassures her big sister she will be there, holding her hand every step of the way.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Janice’s
older sister, Margaret, wanted to believe that the L.A. doctors at Cedars Sinai
Medical Center held a magical deck of cards, but after eight years of treatment
they dealt their final card. The Hospice card. No miracles for Margaret. Janice
reassures her big sister she will be there, holding her hand every step of the
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On a death watch, you get to
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teen pregnancy and into the present estrangement from her daughter, whom she
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Coming to terms with the grief
of losing her sweet Margaret, and dealing with her fear of a lonely future is
too much for Janice to imagine. When Margaret’s soul goes to rest in L.A.
heaven, how will Janice face the emptiness? Will there be such a thing as a
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two hundred and forty-two years ago, in 1776 we were not
even a country yet. We were thirteen colonies who signed the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
from Great Britain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am excited that we, as a great nation, can make it possible for our country to achieve that miracle again today!To become united for the good of
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <b><span style="color: magenta;">THE GRIEVING GIFT, An Autobiographical Novel!</span></b></span></div>
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Janice’s
older sister, Margaret, wanted to believe that the L.A. doctors at Cedars Sinai
Medical Center held a magical deck of cards, but after eight years of treatment
they dealt their final card. The Hospice card. No miracles for Margaret. Janice
reassures her big sister she will be there, holding her hand every step of the
way. <b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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On a death watch, you get to
know things about a person you wish you didn’t. It is like a roller coaster
ride. And like most rides, it brings us back to the place we began, reminding
us of who we were and who we have become.<o:p></o:p></div>
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teen pregnancy and into the present estrangement from her daughter, whom she
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Coming to terms with the grief
of losing her sweet Margaret, and dealing with her fear of a lonely future is
too much for Janice to imagine. When Margaret’s soul goes to rest in L.A.
heaven, how will Janice face the emptiness? Will there be such a thing as a
Grieving Gift?<o:p></o:p></div>
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THE AUTHOR<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The death of Judy
Howard’s husband gave the author a wake up call. Life is short. Howard sold her
pet grooming business, which she had operated since the age of eleven and
engaged full throttle into her new passions of writing and traveling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Judy Howard’s
writing career expands across many genres, including memoir, romantic mystery,
reality fiction, travel and young adult, and now with THE GRIEVING GIFT, an
autobiographical novel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In all of Howard’s
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Judy lives
full-time in her Winnebago motorhome with her cat, Sportster, traveling across the country as a
motivational speaker and offering writing seminars. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">My long hiatus waiting for hip surgery is only a bad memory now. The pain and discomfort forced me to cancel many of my writing conferences last year in Perry, Georgia, Indio, Ca., Tucson, Arizona and Woodland Hills, Ca.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I</span><span style="font-size: medium;">f you have been stewing over ideas of writing and blogging and need that extra push, that jump start, now is the perfect opportunity! I will be offering the entire series of workshops in Gillette, Wyoming. I hope you all can make it!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Click on the link below to register and discover all the events offered at the FMCA RV Rally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px;"><a href="https://site.fmca.com/fmca-gillette-learn-more" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>FMCA's 98th INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION </b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px;">And if you are unable to make Gillette, Wyoming this year, please contact me. I can travel to your community. Be a hero and help me make arrangements at your local library or community center!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT WRITING?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Learn the basics of how to write, publish and market your own story. Judy Howard will share the details of her journey and how she became one of Amazon’s top ranking authors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Judy Howard will inspire you to finally start the memoir, blog, or novel that you’ve been thinking about for years! Handouts will outline the secrets to overcoming writers block, guide lines to publish your book for free, and marketing ideas to start earning money on the road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Down load the Informative handouts at </span><a href="http://www.judyhowardpublishing.com/" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">www.Judyhowardpublishing.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> which will help you develop your writing or for a material fee of $ 3.00 receive the handout at the seminar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Also, you may bring two to three pages of your writing and receive Judy’s personal and expert, hands on editing and evaluation. Fee: $5.00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">WHAT MAKES A GOOD STORY?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This is one of Judy Howard’s most well-attended seminars. Judy is one of Amazon’s top ranking authors, and will reveal basic tools as well as some of her writing secrets on how to create that memoir or Great American Novel into a book that you can’t put down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Judy will cover the critical elements of Plot, Structure and Character Development. Beginners will benefit as well as novice writers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Download the Informative handouts at </span><a href="http://www.judyhowardpublishing.com/" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">www.Judyhowardpublishing.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> which will help you develop your writing or for a material fee of $ 3.00 receive the handout at the seminar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Also, you may bring two to three pages of your writing and receive Judy’s personal and expert, hands on editing and evaluation. Fee: $5.00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Do you have a dream?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What’s Stopping you??<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Fear? Doubt? No Inspiration???<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Have you ever said, “I should write a book, but I have writer’s block? I give up!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Judy Howard, top ranking Amazon author, will give you a treasure map of ideas to keep you in route to achieving that dream, writing that book, or following your life purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Beginning and seasoned writers will benefit. And also, anyone with a passion to reach for what now seems impossible!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Down load informative handouts at </span><a href="http://www.judyhowardpublishing.com/" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">www.Judyhowardpublishing.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> or for a material fee of $ 3.00, receive the handout at the seminar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am so excited to be back on the road after my long hiatus waiting for hip surgery! Pain and discomfort forced me to cancel many of my writing conferences last year in
Perry, Georgia, Indio, Ca., Tucson, Az., and Woodland Hills, Ca.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gory be! I am back on track with my new hip and will be presenting my first Mini Writing Conference of the year.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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I<span style="font-size: large;">f you have been stewing over ideas of writing and blogging and
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now <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is the perfect opportunity!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will
be offering the entire series of workshops in Gillette, Wyoming. I hope you all
can make it!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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offered at the RV Rally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="https://site.fmca.com/fmca-gillette-learn-more"><b>FMCA's 98th INTERNATIONAL
CONVENTION<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></a></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="https://site.fmca.com/fmca-gillette-learn-more">JULY 18-21, 2018<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And if you are unable to make
Gillette, Wyoming this year, please contact me. I can travel to your
community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be a hero and help me make arrangements
at your local library or community center!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Below are the descriptions of my
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Learn
the basics of how to write, publish and market your own story. Judy Howard will
share the details of her journey and how she became one of Amazon’s top ranking
authors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Judy
Howard will inspire you to finally start the memoir, blog, or novel that you’ve
been thinking about for years! Handouts will outline the secrets to overcoming
writers block, guide lines to publish your book for free, and marketing ideas
to start earning money on the road. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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load the Informative handouts at </span><a href="http://www.judyhowardpublishing.com/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">www.Judyhowardpublishing.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>which will help you develop your writing or for a material fee of $ 3.00
receive the handout at the seminar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Also,
you may bring two to three pages of your writing and receive Judy’s personal
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This is one of Judy Howard’s most
well-attended seminars. Judy is one of Amazon’s top ranking authors, and will
reveal basic tools as well as some of her writing secrets on how to create that
memoir or Great American Novel into a book that you can’t put down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Judy will cover the critical elements of
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</span>Beginners will benefit as well as novice writers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Download the Informative handouts at </span><a href="http://www.judyhowardpublishing.com/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">www.Judyhowardpublishing.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which will help you develop your writing or
for a material fee of $ 3.00 receive the handout at the seminar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Also, you may bring two to three pages
of your writing and receive Judy’s personal and expert, hands on editing and
evaluation. Fee: $5.00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Have you ever said, “I should write
a book, but I have writer’s block? I give up!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Judy Howard, top ranking Amazon
author, will give you a treasure map of ideas to keep you in route to achieving
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beginning and seasoned writers will
benefit. And also, anyone with a passion to reach for what now seems
impossible!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Down load informative handouts at </span><a href="http://www.judyhowardpublishing.com/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">www.Judyhowardpublishing.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or for a material fee of $ 3.00, receive the
handout at the seminar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Also, you may bring two to three pages
of your writing and receive Judy’s personal and expert, hands on editing and
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<br />Judy Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08244704258580134624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338793728937786095.post-51285161634612582102018-06-04T17:17:00.001-07:002022-12-23T12:12:08.900-08:00Two Questions About Writing<br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 200%;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Two questions about writing that I am asked most
often.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<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></b><!--[endif]--></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">“How
did you get started?”</span></span></b></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Since I was eleven years
old, I earned my living as a dog groomer, so when </span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large; text-indent: 0.5in;">I began my literary journey I had no writing experience.</span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 200%;">I
joined a critique group and began writing every day.</span></b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
first, my motivation was only that the adventure would be fun. But it wasn’t
long before the act of creation became a pleasant surprise and grew into an addiction. In
the writing world I am known as a “Pantser.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I write by the seat of my pants –– no
planning, no outlines, which suits me because I am an impulsive person. I just
puke the words out onto paper. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large; line-height: 200%;">By surrounding myself
with writers in a critique group and absorbing their wisdom, I began
to grow as a writer. In the process, we became family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 200%;">I
developed a thick skin.</span></b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 200%;">It’s easy just to write, but writing
from the heart is very different … and very hard. In order to make my characters real
and my stories believable, I ask questions. </span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large; line-height: 200%;">Why did my character do what he did?
What is he afraid of? How does he react to his surroundings? Who does he love? Who does he hate? What
does he want? And always, always I ask why. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large; line-height: 200%;">I can only write what I know, and
thus, the process becomes a self-interrogation. The story is really about me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The writing desk becomes a therapist’s couch. I
write from the heart, I am part of my story and my story is a part of me, like
the paper and the ink.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large; line-height: 200%;">I wasn’t very good in the beginning. But I didn’t know it. A good critique
group and a thick skin carried me through my early years …and still does today!
The writers in the group pointed out my strengths and my weaknesses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<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></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 200%;">I gave up on being defensive.</span></b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 200%;"> It was a rule in our group that
when someone critiqued, you were not allowed to defend your work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listen, take what you like and leave the
rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learned that when several voiced the
same opinion, they just might be right and I just might have to give up my
sentence or paragraph or chapter with which I had fallen in love.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: large; text-indent: 0.5in;">How did I know I was any good?</span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large; text-indent: 0.5in;"> I didn’t know. But like any
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