A sponsor told me the key word in “amends” is “mend.” ~ Vicki W Amend means to change. The change that is amends is mending, healing, repairing, stitching together, healing. Perhaps the damage done is ages old, from early childhood, […]
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Words with One Sound
In the beloved 23rd Psalm there are 119 words; 95 are words of one syllable. In the Sermon on the Mount more than 80 per cent are words of one syllable. In the Ten Commandments, on which are based all […]
Continue reading »Once Upon an Angry Liver
Anger resides in the liver, I’m told. Spewing bile, a walking reservoir of venom, jealousy, enmity. Eat, they say, to fix it. Garlic, grapefruit, beets, lemons, greens… Maybe it helps, but other eating helps – abstinence. With a side of […]
Continue reading »The Pinocchio Effect
It’s simple cause and effect, the desire to look good, the need to tell others what we want them to believe, our truth as we’ve constructed it. But the result isn’t an improved image but a lowered head…not really because […]
Continue reading »How Not to Make Amends
I resented you for years, you old fart, for your meddling seemed always to make my best-laid plans fizzle, fade, die on the vine and I would have sworn your collective efforts secured the failure of all good things. Honestly, […]
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