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• Monday Meme

  
  The Blue Door — Authority: 130
  The New Year’s Edition boosted, with love, from Chatty. 1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before? I taught HIGH SCHOOL!  That’s quite an accomplishment, if I do say so myself! 2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I really don’t make new ...
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• Organize Around Holiday Health - When Grieving is an Issue

  
  DrDeClutterBlog.com — Authority: 117
  Losses throughout the year of any kind, human, animal, health, wealth or of spirit can take an extra toll during the holiday weeks. Here are a few steps to take care of yourself during this time. 1. Make time to grieve. Set aside time to really feel your feelings, cry your tears and let it all go where it needs to. ...
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• Pray for the Children

  
  The Seventh Sola — Authority: 119
  I really didnt want to end my blogging break just yet, but I had to. Sometimes the news demands it. This linked story is heartbreaking. It would be awful enough at any time of the year, but its even more heartbreaking at Christmas. As youll see from the story, this young man was only 13 and out getting drunk, ...
  2 days ago

• The Christmas List

  
  Becky's Book Reviews — Authority: 525
  Evans, Richard Paul. 2009. The Christmas List. Simon & Schuster. 368 pages. James Kier looked back and forth between the newspaper headline and the photograph of himself, not sure if he should laugh or call his attorney. It was the same photograph the Tribune had used a couple of years earlier when they featured ...
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• Op-Ed Contributor: Everyone Is Invited

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  
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• No CPR training? No problem!

  
  Booster Shots — Authority: 680
  To all you would-be good Samaritans out there: if someone looks like theyre in need of mouth-to-mouth, but you dont have CPR training, call emergency services and they will guide you through it. Odds are, it wont hurt. That’s according to a study published online Monday in the journal Circulation. Study co-author ...
  5 days ago

• Weighing Medical Costs of End-of-Life Care

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Ronald Reagan U.C.L.A. Medical Center is confronting a hard truth: It’s difficult to know which critically ill patients will benefit from its high-intensity approach to medicine.
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• U.S. birth rates back on the rise

  
  Booster Shots — Authority: 680
  Birth rates are climbing after years of significant declines, according to an annual report released Monday in the journal Pediatrics. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the number of U.S. births for 2007 had jumped 1% to 4,265,555, "the highest number ever registered for ...
  6 days ago

• How to mend a heart shattered by visions of Christmas past

  
  Soul's Code — Authority: 124
  A former street involved youth shares what gets him though a season that for many, is less than merry Michael and his cousins GUEST COLUMN: MICHAEL LARDIE — Today, as Christmas fast approaches, I  sit in a café, reflecting.  I’m thinking about why I am not fond of Christmas and trying to remember the ...
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• Practicing Conscious Living and Dying: Stories of the Eternal Continuum of Consciousness

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 159
  Product DescriptionAn uplifting collection of spiritually illuminating texts and powerfully thought-provoking real life stories, showing death as an integral part of life. Modern medical advances have resulted in death and dying becoming a taboo, which leaves us isolated when the inescapability of death touches our ...
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• Dying to Look Good

  
  Legacy Matters — Authority: 121
  Dying to look good: French kings mistress killed by drinking gold elixir of youth Miracle beauty products may be a staple on womens dressing tables today, but theyre not a recent invention. The mistress of the 16th-century French king,...
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• More gruesome deaths from England

  
  Legacy Matters — Authority: 121
  I dont know why the British papers are so much better about gruesome death, but they are. On vacation in Spain, two sisters went missing and couldnt be found anywhere around their resort in Benidorm. They should have looked...
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• Spiritual Surf: Brittany Murphy, Auschwitz, Pius XII, Winter Solstice, Justin Timberlake

  
  Soul's Code — Authority: 124
  Surprising death of Brittany Murphy Actor Brittany Murphy , star of the movie cult favorite “Clueless”, as well as “Sin City”, “Girl, Interrupted”, and “8 Mile” , died this week at age 32 of cardiac arrest.  Time will tell if she died of “natural causes” or other factors such as a rumored ...
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• Virtual Autopsies Offer Clues Without the Knife

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 154
  A virtual autopsy tech uses high radiation to capture a 3-D view of a body that will never decompose.
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• the dark socket of the year

  
  detritus. — Authority: 128
  The dark socket of the year the pit, the cave where the sun lies down and threatens never to rise, when despair descends softly as the snow covering all paths and choking roads: then hawkfaced pain seized you threw you so you fell with a sharp cry, a knife tearing a bolt of silk. My father heard the crash but paid no ...
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• Dealing with Pet Grief over the Holidays

  
  Janet Roper::Animal communicator — Authority: 126
  It’s been a little over two months since I put down my almost 17 year old perpetual puppy Teddy .  This is still a recent loss for me, and there are times when I miss Teddy so acutely it’s hard to breathe.  I find these times come and go of their own accord. The other day I received a letter from a vet school ...
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• Silence, Absence, Everyman

  
  The Darkworker Experiment — Authority: 103
  Silence.Nearly five months now, and that is all that has been heard from behind the Crimson Curtain.Still. Serene. And yes, very deliberate.Except for my inbox, of course, that has been non-stop screeching. I got it all in one big avalanche on my return. I travel a lot, you see, sometimes spontaneously. I honor the ...
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• The Love That Surrounds a Death: Accepting the Healing Touch

  
  Mothering Mother and More — Authority: 109
  I opened my front door Thanksgiving morning and called “Here kitty, kitty, kitty .” My 14-year-old cat, FatBoy had been missing 18 hours. I was up late in the night looking for him. He never went far, hanging around our shady front porch, but most eating (thus his name) and sleeping in various windows, beds, ...
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• When Does Death Start?

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Holleigh and Paul Tlapa with their children (Alexeigh, Aspen and Gage) at a shrine to their daughter Jaiden, who died at age 8.
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• Life expectancy reaches new high

  
  Booster Shots — Authority: 680
  The average American lives 77 years and 11 months -- the highest life expectancy in history, according to statistics released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since 2000, life expectancy has increased by about 1.1 years. White women live the longest, an average of 80-and-a-half years. The ...
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