Author: Garnetjewel
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How Badly Do We Need A Mr. Speaker?
What a three week period it has been since the ousting of McCarthy. There are things I totally understand and don’t understand from all this chaos in Congress. What I do know is Rep. Jim Jordan would have made a necessary Speaker for the time we are in. Rep Steve Scalise would have also been…
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What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take-but haven’t been able to?-Writing Prompt
Finishing my book is top on that list, but there is one more possibly bigger idea for me. Love is one of the biggest risks a couple can take. Bryan and I have spent 2 and a half years apart physically and yet emotionally we are right next to each other in moments. I would…
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Complicated
Why is love so complicated sometimes? Is it simply because we let insecurities, fears and doubts take over? Is there a way to un-complicate love? Having never been married I don’t feel like I have any answers. Yet there are times I know the answers come straight from the Bible. We complicate our lives by…
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Our Family Journal
Big Clifty was magnificent to see with little effort I might say. Little Clifty was the exact opposite. I have finally walked off my soreness from that day, but it did take several days. Look at how dry this riverbed is… We walked down so many steps just to see a fairly dry bank. The…
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What are you most proud of in your life?-Writing Prompt
The word proud is a two-edged sword. There is a fine line of being and acting proud. One of my favorite books “Pride and Prejudice” shows the dramatics of love and pride with some judgement clouding one’s vision or maybe two. What I have in my life was not entirely my doing. Since I let…
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What have you been working on?-Writing Prompt
Well this weekend… I would have to say I have been working extremely hard to not have this cold. No matter what I did, resting, taking more zinc drinking hot tea with honey, has been able to absolutely block me from the effects of this cold. I really hated missing church but the numerous sneezing…
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A Cold & A Reunion
The past two days have been exhausting. What started as my nose being cold during a walk ended up in me sounding like a bass voice. Everyone knows me as a soprano and sometimes alto, but never the bass sounding voice. While trying to get ready for a reunion it’s a bit frustrating. Especially when…
Jewells of Thought 