Day: May 13, 2019

Promote Yourself Monday, May 13th, 2019

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Please come and enjoy The Go Dog Go Cafe’s free event – and promote one of your best poems/posts this week on their site! Please reblog the event page to your followers so they can also come participate! Thanks!

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Promote yourself Mon

Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday.  All Go Dog Go Cafe readers, guest writers, and baristas are invited to post one link to one specific post (600 words or less please!) from your blog into the comments section below.

If you post a link, be sure to read some of the other great writing people have linked to.

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“The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but …”

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Art of Quotation

agatha

“The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results”

– Dame Agatha Christie, 1890-1976, British, novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright

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Tale Weaver #222- Opportunities of old age- May 9 -I am (not) old

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Keep it alive

I am not old. This is what I tell myself. I have lot of useful years left in me!

There are two things which are of vital importance as we grow old(er). Health and morale. One without the other can make you unhappy or blue. Others may not agree with me , but I think that if one is in a reasonable good health with adequate finances, we are indeed in a golden age when we reach old age. Why? You may say…

I am now 57, going to be 58 this November and I feel that now I am doing the second round in life. The first one was when I grew up, got married and raised my kids. Now having done that, I am helping raise my grand kids and looking after my own health and that of my husband and family. I want to make most of…

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Purpose

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I Write Her

UntitledSydney Sims

Pain is a part of life. Every one of us will experience or have to endure pain.

Minimizing pain requires knowledge, wisdom, action, and bandaids.
Alleviating pain requires living through it.
Eliminating pain requires no instances of infliction.

I think being pain-free only happens before and after we die.

Is our purpose in living only to just feel the least amount of pain?

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“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

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Art of Quotation

Agatha Christie with her mother Clara

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

Agatha Christie, author

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