Validation

I haven’t blogged much lately and I’m not sure I have all that much to say tonight.  However, I do want to share this video with you.  It expresses a lot of what I believe about the world and what I try to do with my own life.  None of us ever hears that “we [...]

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What would Love do?

I fell asleep on the couch this evening while trying to grind out a few more hours of work. As often happens, sleep did not come again right away, so I searched the Internet for the blogs of my closest friends, those people whose thoughts remind me of who I am and what I believe.  [...]

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The End of a Dream

Today, I am in pain. I hurt to the core of my being because a dream I held of being held, of being loved and nurtured, as I try to love and nurture others, is dead.
I knew that things were headed this way. The signs have been clear for some time. But [...]

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The Outing

Hopefully, none of you will be disappointed to find that this post isn’t about a picnic or a trip to the mall. Instead, it’s about my decision to once more tell my story.
As I mentioned on my About Abby page, A Course in Miracles has been an important part of my spiritual life for [...]

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Thoughts on Change and Choices – and Much, Much More

Yesterday, my friend Callie wrote about the need for change in her life and came to the conclusion that only the “atomic option,” i.e. exploding the status quo that those around her seek to impose, is likely to work for her. I had a pretty powerful reaction to that idea, and wrote her a [...]

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