My DV Story - My Voice

Reblogged from National Domestic Violence Survivor Law Project: The story of my past experiences with domestic violence and how I have moved forward throughout the years to provide advocacy to others. Being a survivor from domestic violence can mean many things to many different people. Here is my story, and my journey after that in [...]

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I wish you enough….

Just something inspirational to share with you today: “I Wish You Enough Recently, I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together at a regional airport. They had announced her departure and standing near the security gate, they hugged and he said, “I love you. I wish you enough.” She in turn said, [...]

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Possible Goal for the New Year?

Received Oprah’s “Today’s Mission Calendar Inspiration” email today wherein in the first paragraph it states about the January issue, “Let the hot air out of the self-esteem balloon–and find a more stable basis for carrying yourself through the world.”  What a great quote! Wow!  Isn’t that a formidable quest at times???  A more stable basis for [...]

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Ouch! Could a reviewer of a biography be any harsher on an author??

In an article in the Austin American Statesman on Tuesday, December 18th, the author of the article, Charles Taylor, starts off saying in his analysis of the book by Elizabeth Bumiller on Condoleeza Rice: An American Life: “The subtitle of Elizabeth Bumiller’s biography “Condoleezza Rice: An American Life” tells you everything you need to know. The [...]

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A Woman is Beautiful at any Age…

“A woman is beautiful at any age, if she feels good about herself.” –Rose Morgan

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“Grace Will Lead Me Home” – Robin Givins

“Grace will lead me home” – the title of the book she is promoting and speaking out about domestic violence, bringing home to a lot of victims of domestic exactly the fears, trials and tribulations that they have faced and feared.  Check out her story in these YouTube videos:     [YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcZg2_BDZKo] – Robin Givins Story, Pt 1 [...]

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Way to go, Longhorns!! :D

This is just in….. Final: Horns come back to defeat Oklahoma State 38-35 Saturday, November 3, 2007, 06:13 PM STILLWATER, Okla. — Big leads are never safe when Oklahoma State plays Texas. On Saturday, the Cowboys built a three-touchdown lead, only to see the Longhorns come back and win on the game’s final play. Ryan [...]

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We are shaped by…

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Happiness is like a butterfly???

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Worrying is like a Rocking Chair???

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but doesn’t get you anywhere. – Anonymous

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Bruce Springsteen on Believing…

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A Good Cook!

What a great quote – “A good cook is a sorceress who dispenses happiness.” – Elsa Schiapirelli Found quoted in Spark People!!!

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Reclaiming Our Power

Women, please let your own sun, your concentrated energy, your own submerged authentic vital power shine out from you.   We are no longer the moon, Today we are truly the sun. We will build shining golden cathedrals at the top of crystal mountains, East of the Land of the Rising Sun.   Women, when [...]

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Resolving Life’s Disdains….

In regards to the blog posting entitled, It has been a long night, I submitted the following response: “I certainly do understand all that. The spoken words of “Make Love, Not War” is certainly oblivious to the fact that there are people in other countries ready, willing and able to shake up our lives. 911 [...]

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Human Weakness Protection

“Our human weakness is protected by the assistance of the angels and…in all our perils, provided faith remain with us, we are defended by the aid of spiritual powers.” -Gregory of Nyssa

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Second Chance Changes?

“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.” – Harrison Ford   Isn’t it a great way to look at the changes in our lives??????

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Losing or not losing??

“Lose your wealth, you lose nothing. Lose your health, you lose something. Lose your integrity, you lose everything.” – Stew Leonard

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Recognizing Your Own Path…

“You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.” – Jerry Gillies

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Angelic formations?

Limited as we are to our steadily aging bodies, we find it fascinating that angels can take any form that suits the message. A “classic” angel, with wings and all lighted up, perhaps with pale skin and eyes of blue flame, seems to be less often glimpsed than do angels in the guise of ordinary [...]

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Great purpose for great people???

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds… and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”   – Patanjali, physician and “founder” of yoga

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Shirley Temple on Santa Claus:

“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”   – Shirley Temple

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Something to remember about changing….

  “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”   – Aldous Huxley

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In re Deadlines!

  “I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.”   – Scott Adams, Dilbert

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Gold & Books…

  “If you drop gold and books, pick up the books first, then the gold.”   – Jewish Saying

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Money is easy to make???

“Money’s easy to make if it’s money you want. But with few exceptions people don’t want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.”   – John Steinbeck

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Adversity per Einstein

“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”   – Albert Einstein

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Wisdom per Hoover

“Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.” – Herbert Hoover

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A Point to Ponder…

Point to ponder: The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can’t go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

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Is there hope for us? :)

Let us not forget that Christopher Columbus did not know where he was going. When he got back, he didn’t know where he had been. And he did it all on borrowed money. There’s hope for all of us!                                     – Terry Braverman

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Is money an excuse for your living???

  “Money is just an excuse to avoid thinking very much about the life you are living.”   – Michael Lewis, Wall Street writer

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Good Communication

“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Words of diversity; 4 decades later, still ringing true!

  “If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”   – John F. Kennedy

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Never Walking Back

  “I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.”   – Abraham Lincoln

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Risks taken…

“And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”   – Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

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Risks taken…

“And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” – Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

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Safety in the Workplace

“I think good lab practice, consideration for other people, and safety are three totally related issues.” – David H. Beach, PhD, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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Things Turning Out for the Best…

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”   -Anonymous   I only hope that this is very true!    

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Watching Observations!

  “You can observe a lot by watching.”   – Yogi Berra (Yankee Hall of Famer)

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The Long haul…

  “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”     – Oprah Winfrey

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How would you like to be known as “LAME”???

Visited some family in San Antonio this past weekend. Some of them told me that, like Austin has the phrase of “Keep Austin Weird”, San Antonio has adopted the phrase, “Keep San Antonio Lame”! What the heck???

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Escaping Responsibility???

“You can’t escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President

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Small Group Changes World!

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.     ~Margaret Mead

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Just Give Me a Sign!

A personal story. Recently, I was talking to a friend, “Wendy”, who, after a long conversation about some issues she was having about the care of her Dad, turned the conversation about me, asking if I was happy with my life now. I told her I was, and then she said that she had to [...]

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Woman’s Face & Character

“There is no greater wonder than the way the face and character of a woman fit so perfectly in a man’s mind, and stay there, and he could never tell you why. It just seems it was the thing he most wanted.” ~Robert Louis Stevenson

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How True It Is…

“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone… but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”   ~Anonymous

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Two Human Souls Enjoined

“What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined… to strengthen each other… to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.” ~George Eliot

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Purpose of Friendship?

“And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught”. ~Khalil Gibran in The Prophet

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First Kiss???

“I worked so hard for that first kiss And a heart don’t forget something like that Like an old photograph Time can make a feeling fade But the memory of a first love Never fades away.” ~ Tim McGraw

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On the Subject of Love

“The Encyclopedia Galactica, in its chapter on Love states that it is far too complicated to define. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of love: Avoid, if at all possible”.   What do you think????

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Two human souls; One memory…

“What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined… to strengthen each other… to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.” ~George Eliot

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Recognition of Love

“Why is it that we don’t always recognize the moment love begins, but we always recognize the moment it ends?” ~anonymous

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National Day of Prayer is Today — Are You Praying???

Each year there is a designated National Day of Prayer. Even Benjamin Franklin is quoted to have said: The first Day of Prayer was declared by the Continental Congress in 1775. “I therefore beg leave to move That henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this [...]

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Loving Everyone?

“I wish I could take what I’m feeling right now and put it in the water system so everybody could drink it and we would all love each other.” ~Jamie Foxx, Golden Globes 2005

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When EF Hutton talks, people listen!

E.F. Hutton (1875-1962) No, I am no EF Hutton, but wouldn’t it be nice???  lol… At least, it would be nice if the phrase that was coined through their commercials (“When EF Hutton talks, people listen!) also applied to me!!! I had a friend explore who I am over the internet through all of my [...]

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Dangers from Abroad

“Weakness and divisions at home, would invite dangers from abroad.” – John Jay, 1787

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You – In spite of time and distance!

“Look at time and distance as the essence of the understanding in realizing how price-less it is to have you”. ~Ronald Johnston

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Who Can Speak Better About the Power of Words….

better than Dr. Maya Angelou herself???  See the below YouTube where CBS interviews Dr. Maya Angelou on the subject of the power of words soon after the Imus blunder.  Perhaps, others should watch this as well to learn a little bit more about the Power of their Words and take their actions to heart to [...]

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Successful men don’t quit!

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

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Tyra Banks’ “So what!” Campaign

Tyra Banks’ “So What!” Campaign is such a great movement to set forward. There are so many people out there that have such low self-esteem about themselves. Sometimes, largely due to fitting into the image of what other folks “think” that they should be. Why should that matter??? Tyra Banks often states throughout her ongoing [...]

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One word = love!

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.” ~Sophocles

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Alec Baldwin’s Blunder

Seems like a lot of folks are blundering fools these days.  Donald Trump and his spats with Rosie O’Donnell, Imus with his unwarranted remarks about a women’s basketball team, and now Alec Baldwin’s comments about his daughter! We often speak frankly to our children and tell them what everyone else may walk on eggshells to [...]

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Wordly Person

“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”  ~ Brandi Snyder

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Toughness

“Tough times never last, tough people do.” ~Robert Schuller

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Giving Honor

“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” ~Calvin Coolidge

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Having Everything?

“You cannot have everything. I mean, where would you put it?” ~Steven Wright

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Living Now

“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can decide how you’re going to live now.” ~Joan Baez, Singer/Songwriter

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Canyon’s Carvings

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would not see the beauty of their carvings.” ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, 1926-2004, Psychiatrist and Author

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What are you?

“Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.” ~T. Francis de Sales

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Destiny Decisions

“Our destiny changes with our thought, we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, only when our habitual thought corresponds with our decision.” ~ Orison S. Marder

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Destiny Decisions

“Our destiny changes with our thought, we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, only when our habitual thought corresponds with our decision.” ~ Orison S. Marder

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Is this love?

“The reduction of the universe to a single being,  The expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.” ~Victor Hugo

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Love = Laughter?

“It has been wisely said that  we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh”.  ~Agnes Repplier

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Love is infinite?

“If a thing loves, it is infinite”. ~William Blake

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Jennifer Garner on Pregnancy

“When I was pregnant, so many people warned me: ‘Your life is going to change!’ It sounded ominous. Of course, having a baby is a big change, but it’s positive.  And I’m still me.” ~ Jennifer Garner

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World Peace

“If you want to do something for world peace, cultivate kindness, stop hating, and have hope for all individuals including you.” – Patricia Sun

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I believed!

“I believed in life. I believed in getting better and learning how to love.” ~ Mary J. Blige

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Watch Me!

“Anytime someone has said to me, ‘You can’t do that,’ I have answered, ‘Watch me.’” ~ Jaime Pressly

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Grief Well Spoken

In reviewing some comments on a post on a God Bless Virginia Tech blog, I came across comment #299 wherein they posted a poem about grief that seems to be well on target for anyone that is going through the grief process and seems very appropriate to share with the direct and indirect victims of [...]

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Great Quotes

“It’s not enough to know how to ride — one must also know how to fall.” – Mexican Proverb     “An important part of who you are is what you want to be.” – Unknown   “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb   “Quitters never win, and winners never quit.” – [...]

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Book Captivity ;)

“Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.” ~ Jean Craighead George

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Gliding through time…

“I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control…. I admire the authority of being on one’s knees in front of the event.” – Harold Brodkey

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