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Chapter 6, Joyce Hifler, To Everything There Is A Season. “Life is sometimes interrupted in the way that a room is when wind thrusts open the shutters and fills it with fresh air and a bit of new living happens. Some outside force must push its way into our lives or we might go on… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! “A time to mourn, a time to dance___”

Life does go on after we lose someone. All of a sudden it is “poof!” And there we are! Sometimes with a degree of warning, like Thomas, it had been many months as for him, I waited for harder times with his health trying to prepare myself for what it meant for him. It was… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine!___No room for deep sadness today! Part 2.

“Have you never laughed to save face, to cover an embarrassing moment, to ease someone else’s self-consciousness?” “Someone very great once wrote that next to love a sense of humor was our greatest gift.” I know this is so! With my Thomas, this is what we had, lots of love and humor! “Our ability to… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine___Laughter makes life rich!

I say, “Ah! Well!” Because I opened up to the following Chapter in Joyce Hifler’s book “To every Thing There Is A Season”___. Chapter 5. “A time to weep, and a time to laugh___. This describes me at this time of mourning my Thomas. The beginning reads as follows: “The best of life to you,… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! AH! Well!____.

My Thomas died September 28th, 2020. The writer in me has me thinking. This means questions, and seeking answers. I ask myself, “What do I know about this?” Then. I think, “Life like anything we do, has no instructions. In this case on how to mourn the loss of someone we love.” That leads to… Continue reading Living Life with My Thomas & Living With The Death of My Thomas by Pamela Nunes

Part 1 from Joyce Hifler’s book, To Everything There Is A Season. “To everything there is a season___A time to be born, a time to die__A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which has been planted___A time to kill, and a time to heal__A time to break down and a time… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! The Pause In Life___Thoughts.

“There is a Sanskrit saying that anxiety is the fever of life. We sit here wrapped in troubled thoughts while a knot forms in the stomach and a band tightens around the chest. We lean forward with the feeling that some great chain is holding us anchored in place. And our saving grace is attitude.… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! Anxiety? Anyone?

Joyce Hifler to the rescue! The book, Pathways. Some of you may know I open up to a page to find something applicable and it always seems to be right there!. Much to my surprise, I found the following. Rip van Winkle? Hifler writes. “Rip van Winkle, the classic character of the long nap, would… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! “I Won’t Count This One!___”

The origin of the name Dada is ambiguous, considered a nonsensical word. The word came out of a negative reaction to the atrocities of the First World War. It became both an art and literary movement, both based on deliberate irrationality and negation of traditional artistic values. This was an international movement, pulled together a… Continue reading The Dada Movement

“It is good to know what is going on in the world___we need to be aware of situations and circumstances that affect out lives daily___but we can become so saturated with outside information that we lose track of our own minds, our own ability to think past what we have repeated and repeated to us… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! What Is Going On In The World?