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Posted by Spirit on February 19, 2010 at 10:08pm

Reflecting on my day today, I took a moment to visit this site. And my mind kept repeating a situaiton with a client that I needed to get out of my head.

So here it is. Do you have anything you just have to get out? Feel free to share this space...

Reflections of 2009!

Posted by DawnKA on January 25, 2010 at 4:30pm

2009 came to an end and I am reviewing the year for all that I have encountered. What a year this was for me! There were exciting moments and of course the ever consistent challenging moments. My year began with the completion of my first audio book The Day That Changed My Life Cancer an uncertain journey which was completed in January and by April it was available on line. In June, the audio book was translated in French and German and also being picked up by other on line audio book stores.I traveled quite a bit for professional and personal reasons. I spoke at symposiums and conferences. I became a mentor and I am actively engaged in mentoring which by the way is quite rewarding.In August, the second audio book The Day That Changed My Life Cancer an uncertain journey (Parents Edition) was released, translated in French and German and available world wide all on the same day. While celebrating the accomplishments of the audio books, I began working on the book which will feature many more stories submitted by survivors. As I have worked on my assignments, more have things were added and I now have three big projects that are currently in progress.With all of the exciting achievements, there were also those family moments of celebration, health related concerns, graduations, deaths and births. My nephew who is more like a son, joined the army and left for Korea. I became a guardian of a wonderful 2 year old boy. My mother and I shared some great conversations that gave a deeper insight to her life as a little girl all the way to her present day. My husbands' grandmother celebrated her 100th birthday! My daughter gave birth to her daughter and I became a grandmother!!And for all the years that have passed, I have noticed that they have all had the same things in common - unfinished goals. I will continue to set my goals but I am so pleased that there are things that are not on my list but will somehow become a part of a great achievement and I am open and I look forward to it!2010 I say -- Bring It On!!!!!!!

WOMEN Teacher of Nations.......

Posted by Sonjia C. Gales, CAM, CAPS on March 4, 2009 at 10:36pm

Selected Maya Angelou Quotations• How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!• It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.• A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.• The needs of society determine its ethics.• One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.• I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition -- about what we can endure, dream, fail at, and still survive.• I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.• The honorary duty of a human being is to love.• Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.• History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.• Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.• There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.• The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.• Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns all clean.• Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.• If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.• Alone, all aloneNobody, but nobodyCan make it out here alone.• We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.• Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

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