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  • Same Opinion Still

    In my book club we are reading Byron Katie's book, "Loving What is". This the first book that told me it was okay to not only accept my reality but it was also okay to move in harmony with what… Continue reading

  • Remain Unmoved.

     The gift that the scandal at Penn State is offering is it is encouraging others to stand in the long line of abused children, whether it happened recently or years and years ago. The adults who are standing today, are… Continue reading

  • What we endured.

    From Martha Beck's book, Leaving the Saints "All my life, I'd read and reread a thousand religious epigraphs to the effect that "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."  I'd always been told this had… Continue reading

  • Normal Results.

    “What is your motive for Telling…” is a phrase that lends it self to much debate.  The simple fact that a child is then put in a position of feeling ‘bad’ for squealing stops many from coming forth.  No one… Continue reading

  • Yours to decide, always.

    I talked to the Detective today and it was very enlightening. He is willing to help us help the children by giving us information that will educate us of the process. We know what abuse is, but not all levels… Continue reading

  • Returns to being good.

    What a multifaceted catch 22 it is when society is asking that the children of abuse be the ones to stop it. To be the ones to name their perpetrator, to come out of their cages of captivity and walk… Continue reading

  • What you see and say.

    I am reading David Hawkins book “Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man” and here is something I found fascinating… “The mind automatically assumes that it is continuously aware of reality, and it is unaware that what it considers to be reality,… Continue reading

  • Warn the Authorities.

    I had a multifaceted dream just before waking this morning, confusing about places, time lines and doings, but yet totally clear with overall theme. I was at a high school reunion that was taking place at my childhood home and… Continue reading

  • That Kind are not Family.

    I heard the Oprah show on the radio about the twin girls that were abused for years by their brothers and father, whose mother knew but did nothing. At the end of the show Oprah gives them a few words… Continue reading

  • Hand and Hand…

    There seems to be two energies of silence, awareness and unawareness, peace and hostility, love and fear, solitude and loneliness… There is silence to shun and hurt to push out and away that isn’t inclusive but divided. Silence that is… Continue reading