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“Persist In Forming A Family!”: Uniting People Around The World To Bring Peace.

Today, Zorana tells me that she is fine and lives a fulfilling life surrounded by her husband and children. She encourages other women to find what gives them strength. Her message is to stop violence in the future, and to never allow anything like this to happen again. When I asked what she ...

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Dirty Shamana. {book preview}

When forced to meet the people buying my art for thousands of dollars, I felt intensely uncomfortable. They were too clean. Too reserved. Too shiny. Not my people.

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The Island Of Misfit Toys.

Jesus once said, “Love your neighbor,” to which someone asked, “Who is my neighbor?” His reply was in the form of a story of a man who was in need and the only person who would help was an outsider.

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Share Your Story: Surviving A Suicide Attempt.

Do you have a story to share about what life has been like after surviving a suicide attempt? Do you experience suicidal feelings and/or thoughts and would you like to share how it is to live through them? We would be honored to have your story as part of the project.

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Touched By The Devil’s Flower.

As I listen to Prince, his voice becomes the beacon calling me home to myself. I am now lost in the ultimate irony: My past is destroying my inability to be fully present right here and now. I am being liberated from and by my yesterday. There is something young, untamed, wild, receptive waking ...

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11 Tips For A Passionate Love Affair With Writing.

Once, in an effort to console my broken heart, Mum told me love should be like an old pair of comfy slippers. Oh gawd, I thought. Now that is tragic. How boring. How unromantic. I’m still not completely sold on the comfy slippers thing, but I sure am done with tragic.

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The Magic Of Music, My Lifelong Partner.

The seduction started when I was young, as Music asked me to come out of the darkness and dance. It didn’t take much to coax me out into the light. His song was sweet and his smile intriguing. He knew I was born to dance with life. He took me out of the darkness, exposing my vulnerabilities, ...

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We Are Gathered Here Today To Get Through This Thing Called Life.

2016 is pushing these people front and center saying, “Look! Look what’s happened! Feel the grief you’re feeling, because it’s going to make you reflect. It’s going to make you remember why you loved this person so much; how their music made you feel; how this person’s very existence healed you ...

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I Am More Than Just My Trauma: Life As Victims Of War Crime In Croatia.

She suggests that the society needs to change from its roots, and she believes that faith can be that agent of change. When she was awaiting her perpetrators' court proceedings, she at some point had to hand over her fears and worries to God to pull her through a grueling 12 years of court battles.

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Answer Your Calling: Jump Off Your Creative Cliff.

It may not be writing for you, and you may not even consider yourself creative (though to be human is to be creative) but if you listen for that yearning under the actions and obligations of your daily existence, it will be there, waiting for you.

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