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Living (and loving) Life
Perhaps more than any other genre of music, Country music is all about telling stories.
Some of those stories are very uplifting while others are downright depressing.
However, most of them seem to fall somewhere in between.
Every now and then a Country song will come along that really grabs at your heart and makes you think… [Read more…]
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“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.”
–Norman Vincent Peale
The late minister and author Norman Vincent Peale wrote one of the most-read inspirational books of all time.
The Power of Positive Thinking was an instant best-seller, and it’s still quite popular many decades after it was first published.
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“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.“
–Elizabeth Hardwick
My love for reading started when I was little more than a toddler, and it has never waned in all the years since I held that very first book.
It all started with my dad…
Times were hard back when my dad was a child. They were so hard in fact that he quit school after 6th grade to work and help feed his large family.
Living (and loving) Life
Attached to the vertical face of China’s Mount Hua is a “hiking trail” that consists of nothing but wooden planks.
The “Plank Road in the Sky” is some 7,000 feet above the valley floor below, yet it’s only a few inches wide.
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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
-–Thomas A. Edison
Do you tend to get frustrated and give up when you try something new and end up failing miserably at it?
If so, you’re certainly not alone. Most everyone fails at something on occasion, and I’ve probably failed at more endeavors than most people will ever try.
Like it or not, failure is just a part of life for us human beings. [Read more…]