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Fine Tuning Yourself
The Ongoing Battle with Stress and Anxiety for Sensitive People When it comes to finding solutions to curb stress and anxiety, I’m a serious advocate. There’s no denying we can’t wipe stress from our lives forever, but there are ways to lighten the load by making healthy choices as we go about our day. We…
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The Song of the Whale
I Will Remain Forever This is a subject dear to my heart, especially at this time of year when the California Gray Whale journeys from Arctic waters to warmer Mexican waters in the San Ignacio Lagoon, Ojo de Liebre, and Bahia Magdelena. Long ago within the depths of the sea there lived a creature that…
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A Whale’s Tale
Leviathan’s of the Sea Leviathan’s of the Sea: A poem by Caroline Aguiar Gentle Giants of the sea once hunted and persecuted by men in their greedy glee. Your presence is intoxicating, your size and strength intimidating, what am I emanating but love and admiration for thee? If one day, I find myself submerged underwater with…
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Toxic Relationships
They’ll Kill Your Spirit Toxic relationships cause the greatest harm to our emotional well-being, something I’ve learned to protect as if my life depended on it, and it does. Let’s be honest with each other. If you are a person with low self-esteem, or you frequently engage in negative self-talk, you’re an easy target for…
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Voices
A Strange Poem When I look inside myself, who do I see? A frightened little girl stared back at me. She listens to raised voices, harsh and cruel, They scream at her; she is a fool. Desperate to escape the noise, She hides in her closet with her friends, her toys. She sits in the…
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Follow The Blood Trail
Suspense and Mystery! Jack trudged up the mountain trail. His wife Rebecca walked briskly ahead of him. He stopped for the third time, trembling on wobbly legs while bracing himself against a tree. His voice strained and barely audible, he said to Rebecca. “Wait, I need to rest. How much longer?” His legs gave way…
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Fostering Kindness and Inclusivity in 2022
Our new year, 2022 is well underway. February is already knocking at the door and I’m still wondering about my plans, my goals, and commitments I’ll make this year with every intention to move ahead, leave the old year behind, and set my sites on compassionate participation within our world as a fellow human being…
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Becoming Bullet Proof
When a writer is asked, how do you find time to write without letting life get in the way? One might answer, we become Bullet Proof. As singer La Roux portrays in Bulletproof, a song about the Human Condition and lessons learned from our past experiences, this appears to be the topic of the day for everyone…
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Enjoy the Holidays this Year and Throw Stress Out the Window!
This year I told myself I wasn’t going to get caught up in all the holiday hype. As I’ve grown older, hopefully, wiser, I’ve learned a last-minute mad rush to buy the perfect gift, or risk being told off by someone in the parking lot because I mistakenly took their place, or their toy, isn’t…
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My Love of Languages
I still ask myself how I found the time and energy to teach English ESL to Spanish-speaking children for twenty years, four days a week while working at our ranch on the weekends. The school was a one-room classroom with a bathroom and an office area next to my house in the city. I taught…