freedom

Freedom 8: D-Dreams & Desires that Burn in Your Chest

I’m on fire and you should be too. It’s the kind of blaze that we don’t need to be delivered from And quite frankly we don’t want to be. It’s passion burning inside us, not the misplaced kind that has some of us sleeping around with all manners of people trying to reach the bottom [...]

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Freedom 7: E-EXAMPLE That We Can Follow

FREEDOM (No Limits!)

We Need Help! You know what, we spend so much of our time, too much really, trying to pretend that we came out the womb knowing everything. If we could get over that one issue our family could enjoy us more and our friends wouldn’t be making so many faces. We need examples, people that [...]

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Freedom 6: E-Excitement & Passion

FREEDOM (No Limits!)

One day about ten years ago, I was jogging/walking in a local park. It has a dirt trail, close to a rail road track that you can hear but not see. Trains seldom came. For the sake of diversity and a more intense workout, I would walk certain parts and run others. For me, sometimes [...]

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Freedom 5: R-Right Relationship with God

FREEDOM (No Limits!)

Relationships are interesting parts of human life. I watch, and even investigate the rise and fall of all my important relationships. This investigative list includes: my parents, my sisters, my girlfriends, my family, my co-workers, my mentors, my advisers, my teachers, my ex-boyfriends, my newest loves, and even my “enemies” I want to know how [...]

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Freedom 4: F-Fearlessness

FREEDOM (No Limits!)

dogs, molded food, bogey man, horror movies & the moving walls in the Whiz a list of some of the things that used to scare me when I was growing up disappointing my family, not making or keeping any friends, being different, being alone, being broken from old pains (some of which I could not [...]

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Freedom 3: every letter counts in F-R-E-E-D-O-M

FREEDOM (No Limits!)

I had a salad for breakfast this morning, mainly because I ran out of breakfast food, but back to the salad. It was simple to make, just toss together: a small plate of mixed baby greens with red and green romaine and other welcomed leaves inside, a firm golden delicious apple (that’s the name of [...]

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Freedom 2: The way I see it, freedom is…

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Freedom is choice Freedom is the awareness of our right to decide our lives, to change our minds, to redirect or maintain our course. That’s why real love is so liberating because we don’t just fall into love it like it’s some kind of accident. No matter how magical or second nature at some level [...]

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Freedom 1: the Beginning

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There is this secret that children know upon birth. That regardless of what you say or think, “I am born free.” And they believe it, and they act like it; Sometimes running wild in the house, always creative and imaginative, insatiably excited about all things new until… …until that freedom is beat right out of [...]

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LOVE YOUR LIFE because it’s a Great Life: I Used To Envy You . . .

FREEDOM (No Limits!)

I used to find myself envying people who where in between jobs. These weren’t just any kind of people; they were artist and dreamers, like me, who had desires to create something new or different or just something of their own. And I enviedthe lack of “traditional work” that gets “in the way” andthe forced [...]

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Writing to Live

FREEDOM (No Limits!)

‘You know that I love you’ dancing in my ear. The need to express myself stepping into the center of my life. Me, writing to hear my voice, writing to know myself more, writing to recapture my freedom, writing, writing, writing to be more than just my work, my duties, my task, and my responsibilities. [...]