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Fwd: from my School Mate: Thought of the day ~ OMG; I didn't expect that!

lumpyka...@gmail.com (Gayle Hansen) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:30:34 UT

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OMG I didn't expect that!
“It’s easy to live the expected and conventional. It’s when you live the
unexpected that you start having fun with your life”. Richard Bach wrote
that and could anything be more true? When we are laying on our death bed

Road BlockS

lumpyka...@gmail.com (Gayle Hansen) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:26:55 UT

SFROM A FELLOW STUDENT:
Do you feel like you’ve reached a road block? You have a desire, but you
just can’t seem to get motivated to work towards it. Perhaps you’ve come to
the conclusion that you don’t have the will power to move forward, toward
this desire. I have to tell you, it’s not just about will.

Starting from Empty......

neveraloneneverag...@verizon.net (Bill Donoghue) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:54:52 UT

Sunflower
Welcome to Bill's Place.
A collection of Friends In Recovery.
Featuring a weekly Step Study from various 12 Step Recovery literature.
With the occasional inspirational message or message pertaining to a broad spectrum of varied spiritual practices.
An open forum for discussion of the aforementioned Step Study and inspirational/spiritual practice messages.

A Short History of Hallowe'en and 5 things you may not know about it...

lumpyka...@gmail.com (Gayle Hansen) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:09:29 UT

Americans love Halloween. We as a country spend over $5 billion a year
celebrating it. But where did the holiday come from? And how did traditions
like asking strangers for food and dressing up as ghosts develop?
Halloween has its roots in Samhain (pronounced sow-in), an ancient harvest
festival held at the end of the Celtic year. The festival marked the end of

Middle Wife......

neveraloneneverag...@verizon.net (Bill Donoghue) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:41:15 UT

'Middle Wife' by an Anonymous 2nd grade teacher
I've been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two kids myself, but the best birth story I know is the one I saw in my own second grade classroom a few years back.
When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a few sessions with my students. It helps them get over shyness and usually, show-and-tell is pretty tame. Kids bring in pet turtles, model airplanes, pictures of fish they catch, stuff like that. And I never, ever place any

Are you a control freak?

lumpyka...@gmail.com (Gayle Hansen) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:09:16 UT

FROM MY CLASSMATE, RICHARD HILLS [link]
Are you a control freak? If asked that question, of course, many of us would
reply with a resounding “NO!” And I’d have to agree with many of them. Why?
Because many of us do not have a strong sense of our personal
responsibility.
We are taught very early that if we did not “do it”, then we are to point

URGENT: Help Run This Ad, Save Wolves from Slaughter.

lumpyka...@gmail.com (Gayle Hansen) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:56:16 UT

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[image: Help NRDC run the ad that could end the open season on
wolves] <[link]..>
Help Us Run this Ad ... and Expose the Slaughter of Wolves in the Northern
Rockies.
[image: Click here to see the New York Times ad we need to

Empathy in Action......

neveraloneneverag...@verizon.net (Bill Donoghue) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:45:56 UT

How's it gpoin'?

neveraloneneverag...@verizon.net (Bill Donoghue) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:39:15 UT

Peace.
Bill

IRISH BLESSING

lumpyka...@gmail.com (Gayle H.) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:33:21 UT

GOT THIS IRISH BLESSING VIA EMAIL YESTERDAY...I LIKE IT (and, no, I'm
not asking anyone to forward it...)

May the sun always shine on your windowpane;
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain;
May the hand of a friend always be near you;
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

THOT FOR THE DAZE: Dreams are renewable...

lumpyka...@gmail.com (Gayle H.) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:53:13 UT

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are
still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be
born.
- Dr. Dale Turner

Awriiiiiight...Bill is back...

lumpyka...@gmail.com (Gayle H.) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:55:25 UT

Howdy, All...I'm gettin' another day, Today...hope you all are too...

Our Bill is back from his trip into the Wildz of Canookia...welcome
home and back to the group, Bill
Are ya gonna tell us all about your Adventures with the Voracious
Polar Bumblez?

Lumpy Karma (Gayle H.)
List Moderator

The Silence of the Stars

neveraloneneverag...@verizon.net (Bill Donoghue) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:48:05 UT

The Silence of the Stars
When Laurens van der Post one night in the Kalihari Desert told the Bushmen He couldn't hear the stars singing, they didn't believe him. They looked at him, half-smiling. They examined his face to see whether he was joking or deceiving them. Then two of those small men who plant nothing, who have almost nothing to hunt, who live on almost nothing, and with no one but themselves, led him away from the crackling thorn-scrub fire and stood with him under the night sky

ADDICTION DICTIONARY

lumpyka...@gmail.com (Gayle Hansen) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:34:49 UT

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We Are Family......

neveraloneneverag...@verizon.net (Bill Donoghue) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:20:46 UT

Bill is heading to the Great White Frozen North on Saturday to spend a Canookian Thanksgiving with his Sweet Pooter Pie. He'll be away until the following Saturday and won't be posting any Bill's Place until after then.
We Are Family
Humanity
When it comes to our families, we sometimes see only our differences. We see the way our parents cling to ideas we don’t believe, or act in ways we try not to act. We see how practical one of our siblings is and wonder how we can be from the same gene pool. Similarly, within the human family we see how different we are from each other, in ways ranging from gender and race to geographical location and religious beliefs. It is almost as if we think we are a different species sometimes. But the truth is, in our personal families as well as the human family, we really are the same.