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"For I know the plans I have for you", says the Lord, "plans to prosper and not to harm you, plans for a hope and a future."
The Bible, Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 29, v. 11
~ With love, God

She was saved by God,
rock and roll,
and potato chips

Posts

Unexpected Detours of Life

3/15/24 Hello Haloed Mortal ~ Were you ever on the way to a specific destination (whether literally or figuratively speaking) only to be distracted, thrown,

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Yogi!  

(3/8/24) Hi Mortal Angel ~ Here’s a replay of an earlier post; I think you’ll get a grin out of it, too! Not to brag,

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Victim vs. Survivor

1/20/24 Salutations Strong Human ~ Have you had a to overcome anything in your life?  If so, how do you think of yourself in relation

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Happy Holyday to You!

12/22/23 Merry Christmas, (Belated) Happy Hanukkah, and/or Blessed Kwanza! How are you doing during this Holy Season? Are you celebrating with gratitude, anticipating fun times

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Beautiful, Anyway

12/10/23 Hi Beautiful/Handsome (inside and out) Person! In the overall realm of life, what do you focus on?  We’ll get back to that in a

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To Honor . . .

11/30/23 To honor all the people who were effected two years ago by the mass shooting that happened at the high school I graduated from

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Being Grateful!

11/18/23 Hello lovable you, Could you list at least 5 reasons to be grateful?  For me, this past week – a successful Human Trafficking Awareness

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God Incidences 

11/3/23 Welcome Loved Person ~ Have you had any incidences where you experienced some sort of intervention or were witness to a supernatural moment that

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You Matter

10/16/23 Hello Important, Valuable Person ~ This is a rerun of part of a post from October 2021.  And in case you need reminding, those

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Over My Head and Holding On

9/29/23 Hi Beautiful/Handsome Person, Have you ever done anything where you knew, going into it, you were in over your head and therefore it’s gonna

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God Saves Us From Ourselves

9/22/23 Hi Glorious Person! Did you ever do something where you didn’t think of the potential negative consequences, and then later realized you missed obvious

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Breaking Out of Shells

9/16/23 Hi Be-loved! Have you ever experienced a proverbial ‘shedding of your shell’? I recently (re)read Mitch Albom’s book, “The Stranger in the Lifeboat”, and

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The Long Road Home

9/2/23 Aloha, Good Person! Have you ever struggled with getting something done on time? Yeah, me neither. (Choke, gasp, hysterical laughter . . . )

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J.C. Speaks

8/25/23 (And originally 12/4/20) Hi Beautiful/Handsome Person! Is there something in your mind and/or heart you’ve wanted to create, invent or improve upon? If so,

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Void

7/14/23 Welcome, Wonderful You! Have you able to recognize more good within yourself?  Today’s poem was written quite a few years ago and is pretty

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I Am Redeemed! 🙂

7/6/23 Hi Good Person! July 5 1907 is the day one of my favorite people was born so I’m rerunning the post that was written

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Safe! (For sure?)

6/30/23 Good day, Good Person! Can you usually tell if someone or a situation is safe? Here’s the latest dose of overthinking the snot out

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Love and Grace

6/21/23 Hello Beloved Person! How’s your week going? Do you celebrate Father’s Day, or is there something that keeps you from fully embracing it?  If

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Bullies and Angels

6/15/23 Hi Angel –  How’re you doing this fine day? Have you shown your wings to anyone lately? I’m sure you have 🙂 care to

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Peace in Purpose

6/9/23 Hi Good Person! How’s your day going? Have you done anything lately where you surprised yourself (in a good way!:)). For me, it’s giving

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Becoming Empowered

6/3/23 Hi Delightful! How’s your week going?  Have you ever taken a few days just for yourself? If so, how’d it go? Were you able

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Visitor From Above

5/25/23 Hi Amazing Person! How be you doing today? 🙂 Do You believe in or have ever had an ‘otherworldly encounter’? Like angels, or ghosts,

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Heavenly Nudges

5/11/23 Hi Good Person! How are you doing?  Have you ever had an experience where you thought you may have had a nudge from your

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Predatory Groomers

4/28/23 Hello Amazing Person, How are you doing this week?  Any moments that made you smile?  For me, those both go together.  Among other things

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Shedding Some Armor

4/20/23 Hi Beautiful and Handsome!  Welcome! Do you know that you are, in fact, beautiful (Whether you’re a woman or man?) Truly, and there is

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Learning to be a Light

4/7/23 Hi Good Person –  How’s your week going?  Couldn’t decide what to write about; the Human Trafficking Awareness Event (HTAE) we put on last

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Resurrection

3/30/23 How’ve you been? Did you read or hear something (clean!:)) this past week that made you laugh out loud?  If so, care to share

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Paths to Healing

3/24/23 Good Day, I’m-Grateful-You’re-Here Person, How is your week going?  Have you tried anything ‘new to you’ recently? If so, how did it go? If

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Great Expectations

3:16/23 Aloha Earth Angel! How are you doing today? Is how you feel based on being in the present moment, dependent on expectations of the

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Facing Fears

3/10/23 Hi Brave Person –Have you ever faced and overcame a fear?  Care to mention in the comment section how you did it? If you’ve

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Beautiful’s Story

3/4/23 Been having a busy week so I’m reposting this very early post, “Beautiful’s Story”. Hi! My name is – well – proper names are

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Grace

2/23/23 I was driving through my favorite park on a recent Monday, taking a friend to a doctor’s appointment.   We were talking and I

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Music Heals

2/15/23 Good day, Good Person, I have some sort of ailment (Plague?) so my daily task list has been consisting of: 1) get out of

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Pt. 2, Changes

2/9/23 Hi Angel! I hope your day (week, month, year, and life) is going well, over all? Do you have anything in your life you’d

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Changes

2/1/23 (Picture courtesy of Suzanne D. Williams on Unsplash) (For an explanation of ‘splinter’, please refer to the Cast of Characters tab on the home

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Hope

1/27/22 Hello Angel – How are you doing today? I hope you’re safe and sound, and if not, that you have someone you can turn

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Accepting Femininity

1/18/23 Welcome Wonder-That-Is-You, How has your week been?  What, do you think, is the kind of an impact it’ll have on your future? Do you

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Forgiving the Self

1/12/23 Hi! How is your day going?  Has anything lightened your heart lately? Care to share in the comment section below the video? For me,

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Pt. 3 Learning to Attach

12/8/22 Bonjour Beautiful You! (I had to look up what ‘Hello’ in French was; did you already know?) What was something you’ve seen or heard

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Pt. 2, Learning To Attach

12/2/22 Hi Good Person, What’s one instance in this past week that gave you a reason to smile?  (I’m already smilin’ with you! :)) Hmm

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Learning to Attach

11/25/22 Happy Day to You, Halo-ed One, How’re you doing this week?   Are there healthy relationships you’re thankful for? If so, what do you

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The Grace of Do-Overs

10/28/22 In the last several days I’ve been extended the Grace for a couple of ‘do-overs’.   One was because the Zoom event I participated

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Perception, & Owning Our Truth

10/22/22 Hello Beautiful/Handsome you! How’re your days going?   Last week I asked what your superpower(s) is (are), and I’m reiterating it this week. It’s

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Receiving Redemption

10/15/22 Hi SuperYou, How do you do? (What song is that from?) (oh yeah – ‘My Name Is Sue’ by Johnny Cash.) What would you

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Mortal Angels, & Triggers

9/3/22 (‘Splinters’ are explained under the ‘Cast of Characters’ Tab on the homepage.) Hello Angel! Just realized while typing that greeting, we all have the

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Ode to Abuse Survivors

8/26/22 (Beautiful picture courtesy of Göran Eidens and Unsplash) Good day Good Person! How are you doing?   What’s something you did over these last few

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Self Love & Preservation, & MUSIC!

(Photo by De’Andre Bush on Unsplash) 8/16/22 Aloha Beautiful/Handsome Being, So glad you’re here today! How’ve you been?  What’s a moment from this past week that put a

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Yogi and Bruuuce

8/2/22 Still a bit too atwitter with what’s going on in the here and now to focus long enough to write something new and coherent,

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Redeemed!

7/5/22 (Photo by Nathan Anderson on Unsplash) Howdy Delightful You, How is your day going? Was there anything over the last few days that brought you a spark

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Pretty Christie

6/8/22 Hello, glad you’re here!  I hope you’ve been experiencing some beautiful moments? There’s so much to write about after going to the Joyce Meyer

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New Beginnings

5/19/22 Hi Wonderfull You!  How is your day going?  Are you acknowledging at least some of what is wonderful about you? I was hoping to

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Resurrection

4/21/22 (To learn who Great Guy is, please use the ‘Cast Of Characters’ tab on the home page.) Good Day Good Person, How is your

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Angel’s Returns

3/27/22 (This is a rerun of poem originally posted 12/18/20) Wrote this a few years ago. Sometimes when I write something it starts out as

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Kindness Matters

3/22/22 (For an explanation for who the ‘Michael’ aspect of my mind is, please use the ‘Cast of Characters’ tab on the home page.) Welcome

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The Cat Caper

3/8/22 I have a lot to do and am not sure when I’d get a post written for this week, so instead I’m ‘rerunning’ a

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Healing Hearts With Music

2/15/22 Good day, Good Person, How are you doing?  Did you celebrate this past holiday of Valentine’s Day, struggle through it, or both?   I’ll

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Being Grateful!

2/25/22 Hello Person-who-is-appreciated, How’s the day going for you?  Could you, in this moment, list at least 5 reasons to be grateful?  For years, every

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Author’s Slow Again!

1/13/22 “Go For Soda” by Kim Mitchell works well with this week’s post because I do that frequently in my own life, but in a

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Happy Holyday!

12/25/21 Beautiful day to you! I hope you have somethings to (genuinely) smile about today! Not sure which holiday you may be celebrating at this

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Forgiving Myself.

12/14/21 (supposedly!) Here’s another insightful talk by Steven Furtick. (Actually took notes when I listened to it the last time.) I don’t always agree with

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Please Don’t Give Up!

10/26/21 (The talk I’m sharing with you today is Bishop Jakes’  “Internal Arguments (It’s Worth the Fight)” .  It can be accessed by clicking on

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You Matter! (Actual Post)

10/19/21 (Today’s link is an outtake from Steven Furtick’s talk, “Hungry For Encouragement”.  I think you’ll enjoy it, and understand why it’s relevent to today’s

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You Are Beautiful Part 2

9/28/21 (For clarification on who Michael and Great Guy (GG) are, please refer to the Cast of Characters’ tab on the home page.) How are you

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You Are Beautiful

9/21/21 (For clarification on who Great Guy is, see ‘Cast of Characters Tab on the Home Page) Hello, glad you’re here, beautiful (and/or handsome) you! 

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Pegasus

fri. 7/23/21 I hope you’re having at least a good day, and preferably a great day! This is a simple Tanka poem. It was written

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Receive!

Fri. 7/9/21 Welcome! As always, I’m glad you’re here.   Sometimes we can see beauty but not necessarily receive it.  Are you able to absorb

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Window

Fri. 7/2/21 Hello! Hope you’re doing ok today? This poem was written quite a few years ago. It’s very honest in a creative sort of

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Pretty Christy

Friday 6/25/21 Hello, glad you’re here!  I hope you’ve been experiencing some beautiful moments?   Today’s poem was written in my early twenties for a

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Hearing Grace

Tues. 6/22/21 I am not a mental health professional.  This blog is my story and actions and I am not implying what works for me

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Blessings

Fri. 6/11/21 Welcome!  Hope you’ve experienced something extraordinary recently? I have. A couple of them, actually.  Both were blessings I couldn’t have imagined, one I

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Highest Power / Love

Friday 6/4/21 Good day to you!  As always, glad you’re here. This was written quite a few years ago and it’s about who my version

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Back to Grace, Part Two

Tuesday, 5/25/21 Welcome!  How are you doing?  What were some beautiful moments for you from the last several days?   I’ve had a few, actually,

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Square One

Fri. 5/21/21 Hi!  Glad you’re here.   Do you ever do any creative writing?  If so, what kind? This was written quite a few years

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Back to Grace (Sort of) Part 1

Tues. 5/18/21 For an explanation of the ‘Grace’ , ‘L.P.’,and ‘Michael’ aspects of Pearl’s psyche, and G.G, please use “Cast Of Characters” tab on the

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Blessings Received

Friday, 5/14/21 Good day to you, Amazing Person! I am part of a group of good people called the GLPers.  For the last year or

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The Long Road Home

Friday, 5/7/21 This was written a quite a few years ago, after my divorce was finalized.  (More on the marriage in a later post.)  It

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Teddy Bear or Bible???

Friday, 4/23/21 Good Morning, afternoon or evening!  I hope you are having a decent day?  Have you ever thought you were unique because you were

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I’d rather be . . .

Friday, 4/9/21 Good day, good human! This is an essay for an on-line writing class I took several years ago.  Once again, I took on

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Codependent Gratitude

Tuesday, 4/6/21 Hello Beautiful person, how are you doing?   Today’s questions are . . .  Have you ever been overly grateful for a simple,

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Humbling Revelation

4/2/21 Hello, amazing you!  Thank you for being here. This was composed for an online class I took several years ago. It’s very appropriate for

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Self Condemnation

3/30/21 Salutations!  (Did you ever read [or watch] Charlotte’s Web?  I can’t remember who greeted others like that in the book.  Was is the spider,

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Ode to Uncle N.

Fri. 3/26/21 Hello Good Person, how are you doing today?   Have you had one or two people (or more) in your life that you

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Spirit of Condemnation

3/23/21 (To better understand the ‘Michael’ aspect of my psyche please go to the ‘Cast of Characters’ tab on the home page.) Welcome, glad you

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The Vision

Friday, 3/19/21 Hello Beautiful Person, how is your day going?  I have a question for you – when is comes to your place in the

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(Dis)Comfort Zones

3/16/21 Welcome, so glad you’re here!  How are you doing?  I need to take a break from writing about ‘the past’ for a while so

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They

3/12/21 This was written quite a few years ago for a creative writing class at a local college. I spent the first several decades of

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Grace’s Era, Continued

Tuesday, 3/9/21 (Grace’s story began with “Introduction to Grace’s Era of Childhood” dated 2/02/21, then ‘Reality vs. Fantasy’ dated 2/16/21 and has been posted on

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Reality Vs. Fantasy

Tuesday, 2/16/21 This post could contain triggers for some people. Fantasy is one of the ways Grace would survive hell.. On the left side of

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Joyous Desolation

Friday, 2/5/21 Howdy! Glad to meet with you! I was walking along the shoreline one day when I saw these trees on their own little

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Open Handed Hope

Fri 1/29/21 Welcome! Good to meet with you! Here’s one more thought about hope that was previously written for my GLP group . . .

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Becoming Sensitized

Tues. 1/26/21 Aloha! Do you, too, think that’s a beautiful greeting?  What’s a word that helps you to feel welcomed?    As mentioned in previous

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New Beginnings

Fri. 1/22/21 Hi!  How is your day going?  Here’s another prayer I wrote for the GLP group.  This month’s theme is ‘Hope For New Beginnings’. 

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Faith Prevails

Tues. 1/19/21 Welcome! Thank you for being here – always happy to meet with you. I mentioned in a recent post about how the depth

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More Hope!

Friday, 1/15/21 Howdy, glad you could be here! Apparently the ‘Hope’ theme lasted quite awhile for the prayers I wrote for the GLP group  mentioned

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Splat!

Monday 1/12/21 Happy day to you, so glad you’re here!  I’ve recently finished house- and dog sitting for a friend of mine for the second time

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Celebrating Us!

Wed 1/6/21 Welcome to 2021 – it’ll be an amazing year!  Let’s celebrate us now.  Last week I spent time owning up to and apologizing

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Celebrating You!

1/4/21 Welcome to 2021 – It’s going to be an amazing year! This post is still a work in progress and I will have it

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All Apologies, part 1

Mon. 12/28/20 Welcome! I’m honored you chose to spend some time here today.  Thank you.  With the end of the year at hand there are

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A Beautiful Day?

Friday, 12/25/20 How are you doing today?  I’m so grateful you are a part of this journey!! Me?  I’m writing this several days before Christmas

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Angel’s Returns

Fri, 12/18/20 Wrote this a few years ago. Sometimes when I write something it starts out as coming from a place of emotional pain, but

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A Loving Father

Wed., 12/16/20 Howdy!  How is your day (life?) going? It took so much effort to write Monday’s post.  The deeper realization of all that had

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Oops

Wed.12/9/20 So this post didn’t get done in time. That means I get to play you a song that I’ve always loved but couldn’t figure

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On to Michael . . .

Mon. 12/7/20 (Please see the “Dissociation” post dated 10/11/20 (if needed) for clarification of who L.P. and Michael are.) Hello Good Person – glad you’re

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J.C. Speaks

12/4/20 (In Monday’s blog I mentioned there had been several different creative endeavors I have explored to write about and reach out to fellow survivors.

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Loving L.P.

11/30/20 (If needed, please refer to post titled “Dissociation” dated 10/14/20, or ‘Cast of Characters in My Mind’ tab on home page if clarification of

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Autumn Sun

11/27/20 I wrote this for a class years ago.  I still like the overall theme of it, but now I don’t agree with the ending

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L.P. and Relationships

Wed. 11/25/20 (You may want to refer to the post titled ‘Dissociation’ dated 10/14/20 for explanations about Little Pearl (L.P.) and Michael.) L.P. had some

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Nightmare? Or dream?

Mon. Nov. 23, 2020 Whew, starting to feel better, thank God!  Been under the weather for a few days and while not fully healed yet

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The Dreamer

(11/20/20) (This was written when I was a teenager.) Far away in a fantasy world The only place that’s right for this girl, The dreamer

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Marianne Williamson

Wed. 11/18/20 As I’m healing from a physical ailment my brain cells are completely disinterested in writing something original, so today I am putting up

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Why (not) Me?

Monday 11/16/20 This post could contain triggers for some Little Pearl (LP)  –  Me, from infant – 7 years old.  Elder Pearl (EP) – Me,

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Decisions

(11/13/20) (I love this because it ended up being a pretty good prediction of how my life was going to go in a spiritual sense.)

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Yogi!

(11/6/20) Not to brag, but it only took me TWENTY years to get my associates degree! (I can be a bit slow at accomplishing some

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When hell began in earnest

(11/2/20) (This post could contain some triggers for some people) I’ll be honest with you, writing about what happened with my mother (blog dated 10/19/20)

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The Milkman and the Maid

(Friday, 10/30/20) (This poem was inspired by the Charles Wysocki print at the bottom of this page.) Rise at the break of day, tiptoe passed

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Predatory Groomers

(Wed. 10/28/20) Child predators are rarely recognized for what they are.  They have an act they perform that make them appear as benevolent citizens of

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I KNOW . . .

(Mon., Oct. 26, 2020.) I just returned home from Onsite Workshops in Tennessee.  Onsite is a beautiful, safe place where some of the best therapists

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The Cat Caper

(Alas, the beloved beings this is about have since gone onto their feline Heaven.  This was originally written during their lifetime.) Who says you can’t

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Real Love

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 Some of the effects of what my mother did still linger in spite of years of various therapies. Don’t  get me

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Mom, Pearl’s Years

Monday, October 19, 2020  How Little Pearl (LP) was nurtured?  First of all, I do know there were positive moments and blessings within my family.

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A Plea

There was a distinct vision of how this blog was going to be set up and ran, and here we are, only in the second

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Dissociation

10/14/20 Cast of Characters In My Mind Have you ever heard of dissociation? It’s actually a spectrum and almost all people haveexperienced it to one

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Hi, I’m Pearl.

Mon. 10/12/20 HI! I’m Pearl, pleased to meet you!I hope you’re doing o.k.?I’d like to tell you a bit about this blog . . .I

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Beautiful’s Story

Hi! My name is – well – proper names are not important here. Who we are is, though, so I’ll just describe myself as a

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Resurrection

Resurrection Oppression – like a malevolent lover, settles back around me. It’s darkness wraps me up, insinuating itself into my limbs. It slides itself inside

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Picking Up The Pieces

Staring into darkness, watching shadows fall –empty heartbeats echo down the dark and endless hall.Starry dreams are crumbling, crashing quietly to the ground,only to be

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