I Set Myself Free Today’s just like any day but it’s not any day. Today’s the day I finally found the courage to give myself a lift. Everything’s much clearer since I gave myself this gift. I set myself free, I set myself free, free to be the best me I can be. I set…
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Making a Difference Lou Ann and I have been working on sourcing, finding, screening and reviewing movies for the past four months. Our team is near the end of the process. Six of us spent the day going over about eighty films we thought worthy of being in the Illuminate Film Festival. It was exciting…
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The Shadow of Your Smile Lou Ann and I just watched another excellent film about how we all perceive life. Each of us has developed a story about what has happened to us. This story is a combination of our life experiences and our understanding and reaction to them. It often replaces what is really…
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Love In Action Just saw another wonderful movie about an American documentary filmmaker and a Cambodian lady who are personally saving Elephants. It is a beautiful story about these amazing giants. They are being slaughtered like all wild animals across the Earth. This film was so well done and so full of heart. The Cambodian…
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Hope I was thinking about what I could share with all of you tonight. We have two visitors from Georgia staying with us for two nights at our vacation rental in our home. They are about thirty years old. Josh, the husband is running for office in their home state. We were chatting about the…
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Daily Wisdom Lou Ann reads two books every morning and she has been reading them daily for years. One is Mark Nepo’s The Book of Awakening, a daily spiritual sharing for each calendar day of the year. Nepo’s book tells us there is a Buddhist precept that asks us to be mindful of how rare…
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Equality We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. I would add all people and all sentient beings to this declaration. We saw a movie about Erin O’Flaherty…
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Ask, Listen, Act Lou Ann and I watched a short film, five minutes long, it was brilliant. It was about our intuition. That part of us that communicates with us, often in a silent whisper or a knowing. We call it our gut. It is our connection with why we are here. Life on Earth…
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Sunday in Paradise Each day I enjoy sharing my thoughts and feelings with all of you. I hope you are nurtured by it in some way. We just watched a film about a group of young adults, who gathered together on the island of Kauai, in the early seventies. At first, there were just thirteen…
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Animal Rights I have just watched a film and I cannot share the title with you until another time. It is a brilliant movie about animal rights. For most of the Earth, animals are second class citizens, little more than chattel. However, for many, animals are cherished and loved as much as their own families. …
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