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• Sandra Lee’s Cockatoo Ate Her Met Gala Dress

  
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  Remember the white umbrella cockatoo Governor Andrew Cuomo gave girlfriend and Food Network star Sandra Lee? The one she named "Phoenix," for the mythical bird that, like Cuomo and Lee, rises from the ashes of first marriages? He ate the Vivienne Westwood gown Lee had been planning on wearing to the Met ... ...
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• The Pleasures of Not Writing

  
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  by Paul Fischer. {PD} “The pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again” —John Updike. This quote grabbed me because it is something I’ve been struggling with a lot lately – I’ve managed to keep writing a fair amount, but each step is a ...
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• "Comparison Is the Thief of Joy"

  
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  This quotation, from Theodore Roosevelt , argues that comparing your work, your life, or whatever else will only serve to make you unhappy. Why? Because when you compare yourself to others, you know all the dirty details of your situation or the problems with what youve created but only the seemingly positive surface ...
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• Hope Heals: The Story of Katherine & Jay Wolf

  
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  This is something very near and dear to me and is an important message for everyone to see and hear! Take a look at this amazing story in the new short film about Jay & Katherine Wolf and their incredible journey: Hope Heals In the years following the stroke, we received so much comfort and hope in the ...
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• Gluten-Free

  
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  Setting: At a potluck dinner... Brother H: Hey!  The food on this table says glutton free!  What does that mean? Views expressed in this posting is solely those of the poster, and not necessarily of Pastor Ed Kang or Kelly Kang or Gracepoint or anyone in Christendom, in fact.
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• Pretty In Pink!

  
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  Happy Wednesday to you all and I hope you are having a wonderful week!  With the upcoming "Mothers Day," I thought this card would be quite appropriate to share today. The " sentiment " and " flapper " were stamped in black Archival and heat set.  The "flapper" was colored with Distress Inks and masked before ...
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• The land is one organism.

  
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  Conservation Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. By land is meant all of the things on, over, or in the earth. Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve ...
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• Elizabeth Smart’s Abstinence Education Made Kidnapping Ordeal Worse

  
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  Elizabeth Smart, the Utah teenager who was kidnapped and held captive for nine months in 2002, is now 25 and has gracefully translated her ordeal into a career as an author, ABC News “abduction expert,” and sexual predator legislation activist. But she might also make an even better spokeswoman for ... ...
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• How rude!

  
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  Oh, I’m sorry… Did the middle of my sentence interrupt the beginning of yours?  
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• The past is never dead

  
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  “The past is never dead. It’s not even past” –William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun Filed under: Quotables Tagged: william faulkner
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• Favorite Book

  
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  Setting: A group of sisters are sitting around talking about their all-time favorite novels. Sister X: Oh!  I really liked "To Kill a Hummingbird". Views expressed in this posting is solely those of the poster, and not necessarily of Pastor Ed Kang or Kelly Kang or Gracepoint or anyone in Christendom, in fact.
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• Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.

  
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  —The Hausa of Nigeria
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• At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

  
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  — Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
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• I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

  
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  — Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
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• NOT JUST THE HUMAN $PECIES…

  
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  (the lastest poster from my friend Chaz Maviyane-Davies )
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• Reality in the virtual, virtual in our reality

  
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  “…Nathan Jurgenson, a ‘net theorist who helped organize the conference. He pointed out that there’s a lot of “reality” in the virtual, and a lot of “virtual” in our reality. When we use a phone or a computer we’re still flesh-and-blood humans, occupying time and space. When we’re frolicking ...
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• The trouble with normal is it always gets worse…

  
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  — Bruce Cockburn
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• 90 percent of what you’re writing is motivated by the need to be liked

  
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  “At some point you find that 90% of the stuff you’re writing is motivated and informed by an overwhelming need to be liked. This results in shitty fiction. And the shitty work must get fed to the wastebasket, less because of any sort of artistic integrity than simply because shitty work will cause you to be ...
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• Answering Tough Questions

  
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  Setting: During a game in Austin... Q1: Who is the villain in lord of the rings? Sister L: Voldemort! Q2: what is the name of Italian bread? Sister L : French bread! Views expressed in this posting is solely those of the poster, and not necessarily of Pastor Ed Kang or Kelly Kang or ...
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• Being a humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

  
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  — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007)
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