tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089985016025953202024-03-27T05:13:35.197-07:00Creativity WondersWonders Generated by Creative ThoughtL. T. Carlsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01507627670054801437noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-608998501602595320.post-456883319532217552017-06-12T15:21:00.001-07:002017-06-12T15:21:36.079-07:00Welcome to Summer 2017<i style="font-family: Helvetica;">It matters a lot to
be surrounded by success…opportunities, models, and encouragement. Choose and shape your
environment! Linda</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We are approaching June
20, the official date for the beginning of summer. In most families, this signifies a re-set of schedules,
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I think that creative
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time and context, but it has had continual meaning in changing ways. I share it now because I hope it will
be a useful acronym for you as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">To excel is to do very
well, to perform in an outstanding way. To personally accomplish any goal in an excelling way,
it is important to choose an environment where the behavior can flourish. Make sure that the flower can
really grow and bloom where it is planted!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Open, happy, supportive, inviting people and opportunities provide the
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L. T. Carlsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01507627670054801437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-608998501602595320.post-7252506692809210142015-10-08T18:30:00.000-07:002015-10-08T18:42:15.324-07:00Seeing is Believing<!--StartFragment--> <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: navy;">Nothing will happen in your life that you do not inspire by your own initiative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Creative vision is the power that inspires that personal initiative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Napoleon Hill</span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Helvetica;">When you see this phrase, some of you may think immediately of the colored leaves peeking through the green trees and the amazing recognition that it is fall!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Helvetica;">True, but not totally what I think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does emphasize to me how so many of us rely on vision for our source of data or reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would guess that the greatest marketing also uses this fact as a technique.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See the amazing new product then buy it!!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Helvetica;">I think we can also use this principle to "buy in" to beliefs and attitudes that help us live the life of our dreams, creative and wholesome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have belief signs posted in strategic places all over my house and studio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing in print daily what I believe helps me buy in through action and actively live what I believe.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Helvetica;">Some signs reflect Biblical beliefs and are favorite scriptures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Helvetica;">Some signs are originally sourced by literature or musical scholars…Shakespeare, Thoreau, Emerson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Helvetica;">Some signs are attitude encouragements from current thinkers, speakers, and writers.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Helvetica;">You choose what fits best as favorite encouragements to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Print the phrases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Post them on cupboard doors, bathroom mirrors, exit or entrance doors to your house or office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shift your life action choices to your beliefs, visually reminding yourself with posts!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Helvetica;">Someone in my family has encouraged me to collect my posts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is an important one…the phrase is surrounded by colored circles made in pencil track elaborations, like a kid would do:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I have a coffee friend who aptly declares that he is the smile distributor for the Upper Midwest! Be like Wayne…brighten others' lives. <i>Linda<o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Every once in a while we come across a book or a person who speaks bold wisdom to us. A spirit filled friend recommended such a book to me! Perhaps the author's inspiration will touch you as well.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Kelly McGonigal, PhD, has written <b>The Upside of Stress</b></span><span style="color: windowtext;">. I like that this author has balanced writing about concepts along with research data. Her reference to "mindsets" is quite profound. In particular, she describes mindset interventions, which are defined as experiences that open our minds to a new way of looking at life or the facts. These intervention events are like seeds planted. They <u>always</u> impact the person even though there is no prediction for sure about <u>when </u> or <u>how</u> that will happen.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Our world is full of traumatic stress, however, not all stress is bad. Challenge stress applies to people committed to goals that make life better. It is hopeful to me in new ways that a light can impact forever for good even those people who have spent way too long in darkness. Of course, I think first about kids…our future!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: windowtext;">In a previous Genesis book , <b>Claiming God's Power and Purpose With Creativity, </b></span><span style="color: windowtext;">this is what I recommended to anyone who has faced trauma.: "You will need to look in the mirror and say to yourself: I am sorry that you were hurt. You are a wonderful person, and I love you." I call this mindset intervention now!!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Recently, I described myself as an empowered optimist:) This book has added fuel to my fire! I trust that this warmth of hope will rub off on you, too.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Someone on classical radio said a composer and a poet working together are like 1+1=3. C'est moi:) If you want world logic, you likely won't hear it from me. <i>Linda</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">The focus for most people is on "doing" more than "being." But as my friend, Callie, reminded me today…. we are human beings not human doings. So draw in a deep breath and allow renewal to wash over you and fill you. Allow time for play and activities that bring you peace. Be fully with people you love. It doesn't really matter what you do together. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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L. T. Carlsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01507627670054801437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-608998501602595320.post-18383698393067147132015-05-12T09:58:00.000-07:002015-05-12T10:00:35.506-07:00Friendship.Your friend will listen!
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Your thoughts always matter.
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Seeing you, knowing you, has brightened my day.L. T. Carlsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01507627670054801437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-608998501602595320.post-82728506925764228682015-04-14T15:09:00.001-07:002015-05-12T10:04:16.204-07:00HIGH NOTES<!--StartFragment--> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Recently a High Notes reader I haven't seen for a long time said in a note that she was sure that I was "connecting to others and making this world a better place."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you, Jodi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All readers' notes help me spring up to new ways to give and earn such an awesome comment<i>.</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Together, we make it happen.<i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Linda<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We have just come through March Madness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our culture is mad about winning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of us have a competitive spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sports play a big role in entertainment and education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beyond the joy of the game is perspective…people are even more important than the game or winning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you spending time, are you playing sports or games of any kind with people you love?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be a good sport!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Find an activity everyone can enjoy and do it!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It matters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Many of us think about spring as a great metaphor for new life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, as I watch the new leaves bud on my trees, I'm aware that in the darkest of snowy winter, I KNEW this was coming!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe some part of me could hardly remember or just hated to be patient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or maybe it is easy for us to ignore this cycle of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some parts we might like better than others but surprise is probably not one of our reactions to spring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do love the familiar French expression, Carpe Diem, that tells us to focus on today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mused about Seattle weather recently and decided that the phrase I used fits spring everywhere and life in general.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep watching…something lovely is coming!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Books can inform us and inspire us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People can inform us and inspire us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two words that describe for me an important part of our process for either are "open" and "seeking." It was great to meet with fellow artists to discuss a book that brought inspiration to us about differences and the power of seed planting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kids are usually curious about differences, not afraid and judgmental.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe young children need to be our model in this regard. In this story we read how through a neighborhood experience with gardening, many leaps over harsh global perspectives were made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It says to me that we can plant seeds, take on big issues in small ways, and make a difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we are to BE the change we want to see in the world, it means being open and seeking the new and different not just same and familiar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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L. T. Carlsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01507627670054801437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-608998501602595320.post-41456817243628727592014-12-11T11:07:00.002-08:002014-12-11T11:09:55.357-08:00Light the light...smile!<h1>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Are your thoughts uplifting and inspiring… just like a good book?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice what you think about!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your mind guides your days and ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Linda<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Steven M. R. Covey has just written a book called the <i>Speed of Trust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">In essence, he says that in professional and personal outcomes, we pay a higher price in dollars and time if we do NOT have trust in relationships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a useful read and good for discussion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One easy application is to ask for counsel and expertise from people you trust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone has opinions, many of which will not encourage or thrust you in positive ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The warm days are gone and the colored leaves have been blown away by the fall winds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is easy to say that the clouds create a dark and gloomier day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But what about thinking of the clouds as just vapors, beyond science, lifting our gratitude and collecting it to soon shower the beauty of winter?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pollyanna?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe, but empowerment gathers our verve and wits in ways that hopeless resignation never can. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Thanksgiving is just around the corner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The very first article I ever wrote for a newspaper was done when I was in high school: Let's Put the Thanks Back in Thanksgiving!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's still a good idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe the gratitude we lift to reframe our perception of dark clouds will also prepare us in wonderful ways for the upcoming traditional gathering of thanks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you plan for dinner with your family and friends this year, think of the title of the hymn tune—</span><br />
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L. T. Carlsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01507627670054801437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-608998501602595320.post-71134858965454690992014-09-07T18:57:00.001-07:002014-09-07T18:57:20.201-07:00HIGH NOTES<!--StartFragment--> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Apple Chancery";">By a child we can be led.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Linda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Ever watch a young child tipped over and looking at the world upside down through his legs?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adults generally don't do that, but it certainly provides a new perspective on the same world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friend, James, suggests snapping the photo you have just framed and then turning around 180 degrees to catch the view with your camera that is directly behind you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is another lesson in perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Increase or change your view and you will have a larger scope of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I have carried a birthday card propped on a holder in my car for a very long time because the giver was so right about my enjoyment of the colors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I recently was temped to take it out but instead just tipped it over, which meant the words were now hidden but not the colors or images.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tipping things upside down is standard operating procedure for kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Try it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I have forever been inspired by the wisdom found in the Basic Human Need Hierarchy developed by Abraham Maslow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have always drawn this paradigm as stairs, highlighting that the step up is accomplished with greater ease when the lower steps are completed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, it always made sense that basic physical safety and emotional security must be satisfactorily met before anyone can successfully benefit from a circle of belonging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And completing all of these steps shapes our ability to master life's learning needs and feel totally assured about individual uniqueness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This matrix has always caused me to focus on the concrete issues first.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">But recently I looked at it all upside down!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It occurred to me that the concept of LOVE is the most abstract and draws our thinking and decision making to the highest level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we engage at the top and most abstract FIRST, it will totally increase the effectiveness we have in tending all of the other need levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Loving myself or loving someone else heightens my awareness and my fulfillment capacity, exponentially.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tasks become important in new ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt;">"Why was the burning desire to not quit because they were on a mission that was far bigger than themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have a big enough reason to do something the "how" will simply show itself." <i>Three Feet from Gold, </i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sharon Lechter and Greg Reid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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L. T. Carlsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01507627670054801437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-608998501602595320.post-68193905911617973412014-07-17T07:34:00.000-07:002014-07-17T07:38:53.554-07:00Any day is a good day...<!--StartFragment--> <br />
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Your body might be more sluggish with summer heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mine is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or your body may just be more relaxed with hammock and lemonade time.<o:p></o:p><br />
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But every farmer knows that the roots of seeds planted in the spring are working hard and growing deep during summer months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The crops are growing tall with sun and rain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my area of MN there are farmers who are disheartened because rain and wet fields prevented their seed planting this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It made me wonder if my understanding of seeding is as deep and urgent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's easy to be ho hum about setting goals and developing visions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there is a Biblical statement that says, "Without a vision, people perish."<o:p></o:p><br />
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Undoubtedly you have planted some seeds with your pen, your spoken words, or quietly in your heart. Your visions are growing too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you declare them you seed them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you believe for them, they do grow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They may be visions for yourself, personally or professionally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They may be visions for your family, specifics of growing and thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Universal sun and your mind provide the energy of blessing as you wait expectantly.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The outcome of visions seeded can surprise, which is good and not just all right. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a one-degree theory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look just to the left or to the right of what you were "going for" and you may have found your surprise discovery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your goal will manifest in delightful ways…especially if you don't give up!<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Do you have a tendency to think most often about yesterday(s) or tomorrow(s)? I know I do. Staying in the present isn't always natural or easy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">It was clear that a reminder in either circumstance would be helpful to me, so I recruited my graphic artist friend, Randy Herget, for his assistance. I want to pass along the image he created for me. I hope this message and vision will be useful to you, also.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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L. T. Carlsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01507627670054801437noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-608998501602595320.post-31990685103925655312014-05-28T07:19:00.000-07:002014-05-28T07:19:10.740-07:00Touched by nature's beauty...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNqHylINEGstdIkrWgWjbCk0iWEPT3X6ix_JmiduDkekf8Gi4ULiyzc3GHJWRKyoA4V09dZYARI-e64wGcB32M0s1xyqtME5rKzv1gqkYwSeYToDIEcG_7rW4ZxTfSKX6HfL63U9dzYPw/s1600/May%252C+2014+007-761371.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNqHylINEGstdIkrWgWjbCk0iWEPT3X6ix_JmiduDkekf8Gi4ULiyzc3GHJWRKyoA4V09dZYARI-e64wGcB32M0s1xyqtME5rKzv1gqkYwSeYToDIEcG_7rW4ZxTfSKX6HfL63U9dzYPw/s320/May%252C+2014+007-761371.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6018478240792222162" /></a></span>L. T. Carlsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01507627670054801437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-608998501602595320.post-74418820482518317042014-05-28T07:18:00.000-07:002014-05-28T07:18:48.457-07:00Treasure the old, welcome the new!<div class="mobile-photo">
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L. T. Carlsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01507627670054801437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-608998501602595320.post-34583437518917706712014-04-30T11:54:00.001-07:002014-04-30T11:54:52.736-07:00I Am LovedI am loved
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My heart is filled;<br />
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Brightens my world.
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Each step I take
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Each choice I make,
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Being loved.L. T. Carlsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01507627670054801437noreply@blogger.com0