Love Revealed Stories

Your Messages to Dads – Granddaddy’s Flowers

June 2, 2013

As we get ready for Father’s Day weekend, you are invited to write a sentence or a few sentences to or in memory of your father and/or any father figures you hold dear. By 4:00 p.m., Eastern U.S., Wednesday, June 12th, please send me a comment with “Father’s Day” in the subject line. You are […]

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Linking to Inspiration

May 28, 2013

* ~ * ~ * Inspired by a practice I discovered Tammy takes weekly over at her excellent blog, Rowdy Kittens, I am including links here today to sources of creativity and inspiration. Several of the articles here are by some of my fellow Goodbloggers. Courtney Carver shares a wondrous opportunity to bring clean water […]

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The Summer of Our Contentment: Love Revealed, Julie’s post

May 22, 2013

* ~ * ~ * My new blogging colleague and friend, Julie Corron, posted this lovely article about how to practice contentment. You will soon see why I asked her to share it here. * ~ * ~ * It’s not calendar summer yet but with days this long and glorious, it’s hard not to […]

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Mother’s Day Messages from Readers: Love Revealed

May 10, 2013

In answer to my recent invitation for Mother’s Day greetings to moms and mother figures, to those living and those in spirit, a number of people responded. As the following tributes and recollections arrived, my heart was touched and gladdened by the love revealed in each of them. *** With ever-lasting love to my mother, […]

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Inviting Your Mom Messages for Special Mother’s Day Post

May 5, 2013

Thursday evening, as my father and I were picking dandelions in his front yard, a fun idea wafted in on a breeze (and you will see it, below). I remembered my mother teaching me to make a wish while blowing dandelion seeds when I was about three. I am excited by the idea to gather […]

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Gratitude for My Mom: Love Revealed, Anita’s Story

May 3, 2013

As Mother’s Day approaches, we bring you a gift from one of our Love Revealed Stories’ authors. Dear Mr. and Mrs. Rosenberg, Anita is adjusting nicely to third grade. She is especially enthusiastic about history, is an excellent speller and is in level III reading group. However, I have concerns about her many questions beyond […]

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Musical Memories of Yesteryear

April 22, 2013

Several weeks ago, I listened to a weekly public radio show on creativity called The Spark, on WMRA. Martha Woodroof, the program’s host, read an essay she wrote, titled “The Great Hank Williams Died Here. So Drunk.” Another version of the story was in an article she had written that was published in the New […]

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Acts of Kindness

April 18, 2013

For the past couple months, I have been thinking about kindness, of the compassionate actions people show one another. I have been thinking of intentional, random, spontaneous, and/or intricately planned acts of kindness, whether toward strangers or with those we know. The term “random acts of kindness” is one familiar to many of us. One […]

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Ten-Minute Writings: Inspiring, Connecting, Jumpstarting

April 11, 2013

Writing helped me through the first months and years after my husband died. Early on, it was a sort of informal journal of dumping onto a page whatever was swirling in my head. Along the way, the writing took on various eclectic forms. I captured the essence of dreams. I wrote Seussical nonsense rhymes. I […]

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Love of Sharing Stories, in Childhood and Now

April 4, 2013

Stories and books held a fascination for me as far back as I have conscious memory. By the time I was two years old, my parents often read my favorite book to me at bedtime, T’was the Night Before Christmas. My sister was born when I was 2 ½ and I recall the day she […]

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