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What Matters To Me
This post is dedicated to anyone who is in the midst of struggle, heartache, pain, and grief. Dark days of any kind. And especially to those who are searching for their gifts, for the meaning of life, or even the … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, Choices, Dealing with Pain & Grief, Growth/Learning, Pain & Grief
Tagged choices, choose, father, fiance', gift, gifts, Grief, heartache, lessons, Life, living, lung, lungs, Mother, pain, reason for living, share, struggle, student, student of life, surgery, Whooping Cough, wisdom, wise, wisely
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The Worst Kind Of Loneliness
Most people have been touched by the tragedy of suicide. That saddens me for the person and for the world that is deprived of their gifts. I don’t know what the total answer to that tragedy is, but I’ll bet … Continue reading
Posted in Dealing with Pain & Grief, Healing, Loneliness, Making the World a Better Place, Observations
Tagged acid, corrosive acid, faith, false friends, Feel, friends, gift, give, giving, Hope, kind, kindness, loneliness, Love, pain, powe, powerful, share, spirit, suicide
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I’m Nearly Pain Free
The meds have beaten back the attack and I’m nearly pain-free! Thank you all for your wishes and prayers. They were all greatly appreciated! Russ
To Give Light
Seen at wordsmith.org: “What is to give light must endure burning.” -Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997) Of all of his qualifications I believe it is being a “Holocaust survivor” that makes him most qualified to make … Continue reading
Posted in Compassion, Dealing with Pain & Grief, Observations, Quotes I Love
Tagged holocaust, light, pain, Victor Frankl, wordsmith.org
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Hurtin’ For Certain
We all carry heavy loads, and I know that some of your loads are far heavier than mine, so this isn’t intended as a “Woe Is Me” post (though it may sound like it). I have Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) and … Continue reading
Posted in Dealing with Pain & Grief, Pain & Grief
Tagged d, intense, pain, shock, Suicide Disease, TN, Trigeminal Neuralgia
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Being There
Many of the most powerful moments in my life, the times I feel the most alive, the most useful, and the most connected to everyone and everything are those times I am there when someone needs me the most. Just … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Challenges, Dealing with Pain & Grief, Fear, Gratitude
Tagged Being there, connected, fear, Grief, pain, safe, safe space, spirit
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The Toughest Nuts To Crack
A friend commented on my post “The Bond” mentioning the human element of the people on the wrong side of the law. I wanted to share my response to her with all of you and expanded it a bit for … Continue reading
Posted in Choices, Courage, Dealing with Pain & Grief, Healing, Making the World a Better Place
Tagged courage, fierce, fierce love, Friend, futures, Love, pain, prison
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In Such Awareness Gratitude Grows
I believe that most people could come up with a list of hundreds of blessings if they took the time to think about them. Some of my greatest blessings sure didn’t feel like blessings at the time they happened. For … Continue reading
Posted in Abundance, Dealing with Pain & Grief, Gratitude, LIfe Lessons, Observations, Pain & Grief
Tagged beloved, blessings, devastating, disasters, failuers, fiance', gratitdue, Grief, heart-breaks, pain
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Breaking the Shell
I just saw this quote from a friend and like it, but I believe it is mostly accurate relating to emotional pain rather than physical. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Kahlil Gibran
Russ Towne's A Grateful Man 