Monthly Archives: May 2016

Yadadarcyyada: I’m Hooked on a Feeling

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Hooked on a feeling from Donna aka yadadarcyyada!

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1blog15I can’t fight this feeling, deep inside of me, I’m hooked on a feeling…blogging, you don’t know what you do to me.

I’m not entirely sure how many posts about blogging advice I’ve read in the past couple of years. Some posts were extremely helpful, others decidedly unhelpful, many didn’t pertain to me, and others gibberish. So here’s my best blogging advice that will most certainly change the way you blog forever!

1. Have a blog.

2.Write posts that are 300 words to whatever-your-readers-think-isn’t-too-long. Think of each post as a summer hat, you want it to cover your face and neck, but you don’t want to be the one with thatRoyal Wedding hat.1blog21
3. Add pictures and images to your posts. There are many ways to do this – take photos, make memes, scan, find, paint, draw…and please credit them, if possible.

4.Publish the post –…

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Kim Gosselin: A Soldier’s Boots

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Memorial Day to remember all of our soldiers…

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Chronic Conditions & Life Lessons

Please help bring me back

Pink eraser to wipe away pain in my head

Untie laces of dusty brown from sandy boots on feet

Remove them one by one to stroke white of limbs

Hold fingerless hand while stroking healing scars

Kiss my cheek with warm gentle lips

Like an angel’s light warm so bright

I’m more than a uniform of flesh and bones

Look at me and you may see what I used to be

I was your neighbor next door

A father or mother, a husband or wife

A sister or brother, an uncle or aunt, a cousin or friend

People loved me

Yes, I used to feel real…

With a body that moved this way and that

Before these sandy boots on my feet

 

I laughed and joked

Sat in the grass to play with my kids

Skipped in bare feet near the ocean so blue

Walked to…

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Cindy Knoke: Desert Flowers~

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Gorgeous cactus flowers from Cindy Knoke!

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Cacti in peak spring bloom,

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bursting to rival spring flowers.

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Citron, ruby, pearl, amethyst.

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A bejeweled thorn garden,
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with cactus fairies dressed in buds.

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Queen Yucca reigns,

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while lowly barrel floats cellophane flowers.

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Arid desert landscape,
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yields burgeoning blooms.
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Cheers to you from the flowering desert~

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National Geographic: Heed the Call of the Wild at This Ethereal Wolf Sanctuary

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National Geographic Photo Blog

Source: Heed the Call of the Wild at This Ethereal Wolf Sanctuary

Wolf Sanctuary Eureka, MO

Wolf Sanctuary Eureka, MO Copyright S.L. Jones

Flickering Lamps: Exploring the world’s first (and most famous) garden cemetery: Père Lachaise

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Always interesting research from Flickering Lamps!

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This week Flickering Lamps is taking a break from the hidden, not so well known sites that often grace this site to explore probably the most famous cemetery in the world: Paris’ Père Lachaise.  Opened as the world’s first garden cemetery in 1804, Père Lachaise (or to give its original name, cimetière de l’Est – East Cemetery) was the inspiration for many other grand Victorian garden cemeteries, both in Europe and across the Atlantic in the Americas.  Situated on the edge of the city, Père Lachaise was opened to provide a dignified burial space for all of Paris’ citizens.  Around a million people have been laid to rest there since it opened in 1804, and today, around two million people visit the cemetery every year.

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PZF Photography: Chernobyl: 30 Years On — Discover

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“It was ten minutes dominated by the ghosts of young lives, cruelly destroyed by radiation, upheaval, trauma.” Peter Zarko-Flynn documents Chernobyl in a series of photo essays, 30 years after the disaster.

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