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		<title>The Milk Barn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a photo of the milk barn where my mom nearly ruined her feet running back and forth to the house to check on my brother and me. I was 3 years old and my brother was 14 months younger than I. My dad was working away from home every day and the milking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrillofhelping.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9027998&amp;post=201&amp;subd=thrillofhelping&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Light of my Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is a very special day for me.  Ordinarily I would start this 11th day of January by calling my son on the phone at 8:30 a.m. and asking him if he remembers what we were doing a particular number of years ago.  Had I called him this morning I would have filled in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrillofhelping.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9027998&amp;post=191&amp;subd=thrillofhelping&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Aha Moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been in the middle of listening to someone with a problem and all of a sudden you have an “aha moment”?  You know; the proverbial light bulb comes on in your head and you have an opening of the mind and then the heart.  Suddenly, your perspective has perfect clarity.  You were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrillofhelping.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9027998&amp;post=173&amp;subd=thrillofhelping&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daylight Moon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[. Have you ever looked up into a clear blue sky in broad daylight and seen the perfectly shaped, if pale and wispy, form of the moon showing in the east?  You know it is just waiting to reveal itself; all in good time. Today was one of those times.  I was driving in an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrillofhelping.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9027998&amp;post=155&amp;subd=thrillofhelping&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Choose Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am unsure whether I can teach you or anybody anything. . I do not even understand what you are asking. I simply speak from my heart and always tell my truth. My truth may not agree with anyone else&#8217;s, but it is the only truth I have at any given moment. . Therefore, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrillofhelping.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9027998&amp;post=147&amp;subd=thrillofhelping&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Lighter Side</title>
		<link>http://thrillofhelping.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/a-lighter-side/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you read my last blog, “Open Mine Eyes…” then you know I mentioned more than once how I value my privacy and rarely get close to my neighbors or allow them to know me very well either.  That does not mean I never have had a neighbor who became a close friend, but as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrillofhelping.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9027998&amp;post=109&amp;subd=thrillofhelping&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open mine eyes . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning with anticipation for the plans I had made for the day.  I was going to a destination about an hour away and would be meeting up with some relatives whom I had not seen for quite awhile.  We always had a great time whenever we got together.  It would be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrillofhelping.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9027998&amp;post=78&amp;subd=thrillofhelping&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love thy neighbor&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine for a moment that you just woke up from a nap.  While you are waiting for your eyes to focus and see clearly you still have the residue of the dream you were having during your slumber.  For a brief moment you feel a peace that all is well.  You take a deep breath [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrillofhelping.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9027998&amp;post=58&amp;subd=thrillofhelping&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everything Matters</title>
		<link>http://thrillofhelping.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/everything-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was driving toward my office this morning and had the usual myriad of thoughts running through my head.  Who was I going to be seeing today?  What would we talk about?  Should I go to the mailbox before going to the office or wait until afterwards?  Would I have time to eat in between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrillofhelping.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9027998&amp;post=3&amp;subd=thrillofhelping&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just Ordinary People</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not TY from Extreme Makeovers, or Oprah, or anyone famous, but I still have the ability to make a difference in other people’s lives and so do you. It is amazing to me what a huge impact plain ordinary people like you and me can make by helping whenever a crisis situation comes up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrillofhelping.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9027998&amp;post=4&amp;subd=thrillofhelping&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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