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Add your own 2 cents! What gets you out of bed, out the door, and home again?

on Wed, 07/02/2014 - 18:50

When I meet folks and ask them to check out this Livfully blog, I say they can add their own take on the world, what interests them, and what ideas they have to improve things or brighten up their corner of the world.

Thanks for a Great Town Hall Forum with Elizabeth Esty on the phone..maybe we can do more on our own too.

on Wed, 06/25/2014 - 00:31

Lucky me, I'm listening with great appreciation to the well-spoken, intelligent, caring Congressman Elizabeth Esty of CT. Many people are on the line who got a call and joined in with an option to ask a question in turn. She is like a baseball player ready to call 'batter up' asking for one person after the next to give insights and questions about local and national concerns.

The topics I've heard covered in this second forum I've listened in on are vast--educational loans mounting for thousands of students (and she'd put numbers in the blanks to astound us that the problem is bigger than

Powerful HoUSAtonic Connections--MA/NY CT (many connect for US-All)

on Tue, 06/10/2014 - 21:37


While 9-11 brought the United States of A Miracle into a new sense of connection with the other states in the country, sharing not only the national loss but ties to neighboring states where families of the victims lived and felt the impact of the difficulty on many levels of a national tragedy.

Maya Angelou, An Angel who bid an Earthly Adieu to US-All in May

on Fri, 05/30/2014 - 15:59

On May 28th,  2014--the day of the passing or our great Amerian poet and citizen Maya Angelo at age 86--I heard a 1986 clip of  an interview on www.npr.org . I realized that there was some poetry in the timing of  Maya Angelou being called home by an angel in May.

She had come full circle and was reiterating we May speak, we May dream, we May move on when its time to go...and she lived fully, like a human angel with imperfections and struggles and  then a life journey that paved the way for others to accept that healing and forgiveness could allow one's soul to move toward the more beautiful

Rats:Have you ever "pulled a reverse" (blamed someone for something you did when you hurt them?)

on Wed, 05/28/2014 - 15:32

A combo (make that a megacombo) of stories from various aspects of situations to highlight not only a complex 'pulling of a reverse' wherein one person insults another then blames them for bringing the situation on, and getting what they deserved. Ever had that happen to you or do that to someone else? That is Typical behavior or a strategy by many people with a drug or alcohol problem or mental illness or personality disorder such as bipolar or borderline or schizoaffective disorder.

Those are often linked but for now, we'll set the overall scene of what can happen to any parent for various

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