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Whose to blame for Tuesday night’s spanking of the Republicans? (Spanking is a polite term for what happened.) Trump: threw a hissy fit over releasing the Epstein files did not end the Iran war in three weeks like he said he would at the beginning unable to clearly communicate to We The People his long… ... mehr auf joyreturns.com
Thank you to all the widows who voted yesterday. I’m grateful you were not part of the 9% who no longer vote because their husband passed. You dared to get up out of your grief and go decide who you want making policy decisions for you and your fellow countrymen. I’m proud of you for… ... mehr auf joyreturns.com
Troubled by election results? Here is some wisdom for you to write on your heart. Maybe even write it over and over again on paper until it gets drilled into your heart. More thoughts later after I’ve had a good meal and a nap. Bio: Michele Kearns is the founder and HUG© (Hope Unites Globally)… ... mehr auf joyreturns.com
Wese words from the late President William McKinley. The free man cannot be long an ignorant man. — William McKinley Bio: Michele Kearns is the founder and HUG© (Hope Unites Globally) Award-Winner of JoyReturns. She shares her adventures, hoping to inspire widows to move through grief and rebuild their lives. Michele is a lover of… ... mehr auf joyreturns.com
Reformation: outward change in behavior, rules, or institutions (Google) Background: On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. He wanted to reform the Catholic Church but ended up starting Protestantism Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us… ... mehr auf joyreturns.com
One of my favourite spots to sit is the place I call the bridge under the bridge in Jubilee Park where I can see the Harbour Bridge in the background with the Anzac Bridge in the foreground. A lot of people sit there, it is sought after for contemplation and invaluable moments of solitude. We […]... mehr auf selmainthecity.wordpress.com
Here is a link to the anthem for the remainder of the election season. All Glory Be To Christ – This song by Kings Kaleidoscope (sung to the tune of Auld Lang Syne) is on repeat through these last days of mid-term election season in my house. It is a reminder of who is really… ... mehr auf joyreturns.com
May this quote and Bible verse inspire you to improve your little corner of the world today. Improving your little corner, improves the whole wide world. At least try to smile more as that will not only improve someone else’s world but improve your mood on this Monday. How wonderful it is that nobody need… ... mehr auf joyreturns.com
Happy 40th Anniversary Phantom of the Opera. Previews began on September 27, 1986 and officially premeired in London’s West End at Her Majesty’s Theatre (Now His Majesty’s Theatre) on October 9th, 1986. The phantom’s big number in act one is The Music of the Night, a song he sings to his protoge Christine Daae (a… ... mehr auf joyreturns.com
Soul Is the Source A contemporary story of love, inheritance, conscience, and the quiet distance between the person we become and the soul we were meant to recognise. At 8:17 on a Thursday evening in Lahore, a dead boy forgave his mother in a hotel ballroom. He had never spoken the words. But nobody in … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
At 11:43 on a Tuesday night, Meher Kaur was sitting inside her parked car in the basement of a Gurugram office tower, watching her mother’s name flash on the phone. Mamma Calling. She let it ring. Once. Twice. Three times. Then the screen went dark. Two seconds later, WhatsApp. Mamma:Reached home? Meher typed: Just leaving. … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
There are people who enter your life like a storm. And then there are those who arrive so quietly that one day you realise the storm has stopped. No one in Lahore remembered exactly when Meher Siddiqui had stopped laughing loudly. Perhaps it was after her father died. Perhaps after the engagement that lasted four years and … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
The first thing Aaliya Mirza did after inheriting the haveli was try to sell it. The second thing she did was lie about trying to sell it. “There is no buyer,” she told her mother over breakfast. Farah Mirza stopped buttering her toast. “There is always a buyer.” “For a three-hundred-year-old building with bats, lawsuits … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
The trouble began with a blue bottle no larger than a thumb. It was found on a Tuesday morning in the locked room above Suleman Attar House, wedged behind three ledgers, a broken wall clock and a tin box containing receipts from shops that no longer existed. On its faded label, Haji Suleman had written … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
By nine-thirty on Sunday morning, three things had already gone wrong in the Siddiqui household. The milk had boiled over. Abu had misplaced his glasses. And Hamza had eaten the paratha Ammi had kept aside for Areeba. Again. Areeba entered the dining room with wet hair, one earring on, and the particular expression of someone … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
It’s important to have a part of your day that is a ritual. When you write all day it is very easy to spend your time sitting, typing, drinking coffee, researching, reading and so on. It’s great for getting the work done but not so great for your body, or for your mind, for that […]... mehr auf selmainthecity.wordpress.com
Happy last Monday in September! Several weeks after Joe’s passing, I was putting something away in the closet and saw my film camera. Seeing it gave me the idea to get back into photography, a hobby that got put on married life’s back burner. I decided to upgrade it to a DSLR camera (Cannon). During… ... mehr auf joyreturns.com
Nobody in the house knew when Farzana Begum had started saying it. Perhaps that was the strange thing. Families remembered dramatic beginnings. The night Abba died. The afternoon Maham’s engagement broke. The morning Adeel announced that he was leaving his safe bank job to start his own business. The day Hira left the country with … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
A Sufi’s understanding of a woman who was simply feeling beautiful. The saree had been lying in her wardrobe for quite some time. A pale green silk with little golden leaves scattered across it, and a red border that caught the light rather beautifully. She had bought it because she liked it. There had been … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
“Thanks for the tan lines, mosquito bites and memories, summer.” – Unknown Yes, tan lines, mosquito bites, and reunions, were part of my summer as were a few other things pictured below. Since we have a lot of high winter winds, I do not expect this dead treetop to be here next summer. The massive… ... mehr auf joyreturns.com
By the time Alina reached Cairo, the evening had already begun to soften. The city did not arrive all at once. It revealed itself the way old people tell stories—slowly, with pauses, with details that seemed unimportant until suddenly they were everything. First came the pale gold dust in the air. Then the traffic, restless … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
A Sufi story about the art of breathing, and the things we leave unsaid. 1. The Inheritance The first thing Alizeh Mirza inherited from her grandfather was a building in Karachi. The second was a parrot that knew three languages and used all of them to insult visitors. The third was a letter. The letter … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
“Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.” – Darnell Lamont Walker Summer is slowly giving away to autumn. The warm summer wind will give way to the cooler autumn winds. The leaves on these trees at a cemetary will quit looking like broccoli and will transition into… ... mehr auf joyreturns.com
A story of Hukam Rajāī — and the strange mercy of what did not happen The morning Meher was supposed to get married, her father polished his shoes twice. Nobody noticed. There were fifty-three people in the house, three caterers arguing in the courtyard, cousins carrying trays of jasmine from one room to another, a … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
Well, it appears that what I thought was a burning need to write again in my last post wasn’t accurate. But, here’s a post at nine months since the last one instead of a year, or three, apart. Today, I was struck with the thought that I’d not logged into WordPress in a while and […]... mehr auf musingsoftheamusingmuse.wordpress.com
* For my dearest friend, Ms Karen, the most integral part of the Writers’ Collective – When I look back on my life I know I have made mistakes, everyone has. Sometimes those mistakes pertained to my perception of my life or of myself. I often carried myself with a lament sounding in my head, […]... mehr auf selmainthecity.wordpress.com
If I could turn back time to Monday, September 10, 2001, here is what I would tell myself. “Seize the day by SAVORING it – every single moment.” It might be a Monday, but savor this day. You are not a morning person, but savor this morning. Savor the good morning kiss and the goodbye… ... mehr auf joyreturns.com
Labor Day was spent driving though a cemetary looking for photo contest shots. While driving around I came upon a cigar tree – at least that is what us neighborhood kids called the one iin the neighbor’s yard. The technical name is Northern Catalpa (Catalpa speciosa). The cigars in this photo are green cylinders but… ... mehr auf joyreturns.com
Jedes Jahr geben die Deutschen mehr als 120 Millionen Euro für Feuerwerk aus. Und für was? Für etwas, was im animistischen Glauben früher „böse Geister“ vertreiben sollte. Heutzutage ist Silvester nur noch gut zum Party machen, Alkohol trinken und Geld anzünden. Für mich persönlich ist Silvester – abgesehen vom Fernsehprogramm und den L... mehr auf chogaramirez.wordpress.com
Die Brandnoozbox bot diesmal eine sehr bunte Mischung an. Gar nicht schlecht. Leider war unsere Chipspackung kaputt. Dazu kann ich euch also leider gar nichts sagen. Sauber geplatzt war sie wohl. Sah wie frisch geöffnet aus, vermutlich einfach Druck von oben beim einpacken oder auch während des Transports. Erst das zweite Mal das bei uns […]... mehr auf lilaplaetzchen.wordpress.com
Manche Wochen verlaufen erst einmal doof, zum Beispiel wenn ich eineinhalb Tage mit Migräne im Bett liege und mich davor noch zur Arbeit geschleppt habe. Natürlich kommt auch nur an solchen Tagen der Chef viermal zu mir und sieht, wie ich Blogs lese, anstatt ordentlich zu arbeiten, wobei Letzteres einfach nicht mehr ging und Ersteres […]... mehr auf janavar.net
Damit der Mai nicht so ganz ohne zweiten Blogpost vergeht, habe ich mich durchgerungen, mal wieder ein Update zu posten. Und zwar, damit es nicht gleich zu aufregend wird, über meine Rosen. Die paar Leser, die sich noch hierher verirren, … Weiterlesen →... mehr auf chiefjudy.com
Und ich bin Live dabei auf Twitch!!! Das heißt direkt wenn die neue Episode des Verkaufsschlagers (über 1 Millionen Exemplare wurden bisher verkauft) raus kommt, werde ich sie runterladen und starten. Natürlich nur auf englisch, da die deutschen Fansubs erst Wochen später verfügbar sein werden. Wollt ihr also auch direkt am Releasetag dieses Spi... mehr auf jkl-solutions.de
Ich trinke zuviel Kaffee. Diese Diagnose kann ich mir leicht selbst stellen. Als Therapie trinke ich ab sofort nach der vierten Tasse Kaffee am Tag ein Glas Wasser, sobald bei mir die Lust nach Koffein aufkommt. Das klappt ganz prima. … Weiterlesen →... mehr auf cpunktb.wordpress.com
Kaum hat mich die Arbeit wieder, komm ich auch schon wieder zu nichts. Und ich hatte mir doch so vorgenommen, heuer wieder mal eine “Best of ” – Liste des vergangenen Jahres zu schreiben. Oh well. Vielleicht hab ich die … Weiterlesen →... mehr auf chiefjudy.com
Mein #29daysofblogging ist am Ende doch nicht ganz so gelaufen, wie ich es geplant hatte. In der letzten Februarwoche hat mich der unerwartete Stress eingeholt, weshalb ich “nur” an 24 von den 29 Tagen gebloggt habe. Dennoch fand ich das Projekt äußerst interessant und es hat mir bis zum Schluss Spaß gemacht. Auch wenn es […]... mehr auf janavar.net
Sie sind überall zu finden: Packlisten für Wandertouren, für Fahrradtouren, zum Backpacken, zum Flashbacken, für eine Fernreise, für einen Städtetrip. Aber eine Packliste zum Arbeiten im Ausland habe ich noch nie gesehen. Willkommen zu meinem nächsten Teil von Reisen und damit Geld verdienen. Was packe ich für die Arbeit im Ausland ein. Beim Backpa... mehr auf worldwhisperer.wordpress.com
Hallo, heute ist Welt-Giraffen-Tag. Wusstet ihr, dass am 21. Juni nicht nur der längste Tag des Jahres gefeiert wird, sondern auch das langhalsigste Tier derweite... mehr auf ispodberlin.wordpress.com
Jetzt hätte ich es ja fast geschafft, dass ein Monat ganz ohne einen Post vergeht, aber ich will mal nicht so sein. Also – den November hätte man diesmal meinetwegen auch überspringen können. Gleich zu Anfang war der BabyChief ordentlich … Weiterlesen →... mehr auf chiefjudy.com
Jetzt hätte ich es ja fast geschafft, dass ein Monat ganz ohne einen Post vergeht, aber ich will mal nicht so sein. Also – den November hätte man diesmal meinetwegen auch überspringen können. Gleich zu Anfang war der BabyChief ordentlich … Weiterlesen →... mehr auf chiefjudy.com
