tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37443674559174373192024-03-12T21:08:44.536-06:00lefty & sixtyMelaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14094401900755576360noreply@blogger.comBlogger534125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744367455917437319.post-63396953304575093522018-08-19T09:20:00.000-06:002018-08-19T09:40:18.465-06:00Ribbons Galore<div style="text-align: center;">
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great quantities, in large numbers, by the yard.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: magenta; font-size: large;"><u>RIBBONS</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">brought to London then to America, where ribbon was
purchased more then any other country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The photo's below would best describe this </div>
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undertaking I went through a month ago.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3IeT61iSX-A/VPOHTzVh6PI/AAAAAAAAFMA/PvG1wx7CEnI/s1600/IMG_2190.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3IeT61iSX-A/VPOHTzVh6PI/AAAAAAAAFMA/PvG1wx7CEnI/s1600/IMG_2190.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do I organize in holiday?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Do I organize in color?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pS8_KBSedQc/VPOHXo_h0iI/AAAAAAAAFMI/WrdRtXX9d5o/s1600/IMG_2188.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pS8_KBSedQc/VPOHXo_h0iI/AAAAAAAAFMI/WrdRtXX9d5o/s1600/IMG_2188.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have ONE drawer to put all of this in.....huumm!</span></td></tr>
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<b>I</b> turned <span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: x-large;">60</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: x-large;"> </span>this year..</h2>
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I dreaded the thought and the reality for months before this birthday would happen. I'm not really one to care about birthday celebrations but the aging process hasn't been on my top ten list EVER!</div>
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I know that this life is all about learning, experiencing, doing and receiving life's challenges, I know that you can't stop the process unless you have a big blip of death happen to you. This event caused me to really reflect on my health and well being and the person that I AM NOW...the person that I WANT to become ten years from now... if I'm still here. 😉</div>
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This year so far, has allowed me to be:</div>
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<li>be creative in my sewing room (finishing up past projects)</li>
<li>make recipes in the kitchen that I has always wanted to try</li>
<li>blogging again</li>
<li>de-cluttering my home (trying to get to the "minimalist" life)</li>
<li>participating in areas of activism/civic action</li>
<li>spending time with my grandchildren</li>
<li>loving my daughters, son-in-laws more</li>
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I'm not there yet with getting older. The truth is that my consciousness is fixed on aging and I need to dismiss this nagging negative and just live it day to day. That is my birthday gift to myself.</div>
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I wanted to document this birthday so-sorry for all the photo's, it's just an indulgence all of us need in the aging process.</div>
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<b>P</b>eople that know me, are always rolling their eyes when I spot a lefty. I see them naturally because left handed people are special and there aren't many of us "out there" in this right handed world.</div>
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<li>As a sever at a restaurant</li>
<li>In a movie as the main character or an "extra"</li>
<li>Playing a sport of any kind</li>
<li>On their cell phones(ear placement matters)</li>
<li>Drinking from a coffee cup (most of the time the words or image on the cup are turned facing the drinker).</li>
<li>Cutting with scissors-obvious</li>
<li>How they part their hair (most wear their hair part on the right side) I had a right handed mom that taught me to part my hair on the left side</li>
<li>Using their computer mouse (most left handers adapt to using their right made to move the mouse)</li>
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I know this reads and sounds trivial but...for me, it helps me identify with my fellow community.<br />
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Left handers seen to enjoy commiserating with each other on the quandary of living in a right handed world. When I pose the question of their left handiness, they are generally are interested in talking and engaging in conversation. lefties make up about 10 % of the world population. Most females don't know that they are even more a minority then left handed males. with one study indicating that there are 11.6% left handedness and 8.6% females.<br />
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Enough said; if you want to learn more just Google search left handedness.<br />
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Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14094401900755576360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744367455917437319.post-17691371132859482702018-01-09T12:14:00.002-07:002018-01-09T12:17:33.303-07:00Know Thy Self<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I have been conscious about my hair, make-up and other body images. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Can I help it when I have been raised in a culture and society </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">that wants women to be our best, look our best</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> but does not expect us to act our best or know ourselves.. </span><br />
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<br />Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14094401900755576360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744367455917437319.post-60845754582854187782016-02-15T08:16:00.003-07:002016-02-15T08:16:31.637-07:00My Cat & Grandkids<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>W</b></span>hen I saw this......<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IDciOdkwxNE/VsHrEwPL2HI/AAAAAAAAFSA/cpFAKoM7BTo/s1600/6a00d8358081ff69e201b8d19cb423970c-800wi.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IDciOdkwxNE/VsHrEwPL2HI/AAAAAAAAFSA/cpFAKoM7BTo/s320/6a00d8358081ff69e201b8d19cb423970c-800wi.jpg" width="232" /></a><br />
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It was posted on this blog-http://www.abeautifulmess.com/2016/02/palm-springs-kitty-scratch-house-omg.html<br />
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I knew that I needed to help the swede build it for Brutus and my grandkids. I can imagine what hours of fun they'll have playing with this house.<br />
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I'll have to start finding the retro furniture from the late 50's-early 60's.Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14094401900755576360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744367455917437319.post-79416924213363888852015-08-30T09:00:00.002-06:002015-08-30T09:00:14.227-06:00Women’s Equality Day-2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14094401900755576360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744367455917437319.post-66530165061260381442015-04-19T12:39:00.000-06:002015-04-19T15:55:00.046-06:00Just Flowers and Fashion<div style="text-align: center;">
This Spring, I couldn't help but notice in the movies<br />
and in fashion this flower print that crept into view, maybe<br />
it's because I noticed it first on the new <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20DF6U1HcGQ">Cinderella</a> movie.<br />
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If you'll notice in the first few seconds of the movie<br />
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The dress that she is wearing started me thinking<br />
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Then my mind said; "that is the same print as your china ware." <b>Yes</b>, that's right,<br />
my china pattern that I bought in the 70's.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">C</span></b>ontinuing and ending this post about saying goodbye to Martha,</div>
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I took all the pages that I clipped from her magazines and </div>
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filed them in sheet protectors and organized </div>
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them by either holiday or topic.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">In this image, you can see the notebooks of ideas that <br />I have been collecting, saving through the years. <br />I still have to re-organize and name the binders.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">All the binders you see in this image <br />are recycled, some retrieved from the trash.<br />These binders are a 3.5" x 11''</span></td></tr>
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Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14094401900755576360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744367455917437319.post-90738174126590368292015-01-29T20:42:00.002-07:002015-01-29T20:42:48.657-07:00Goodbye Martha-Part 1<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">M</span></b>any may know that I have been a <span style="color: #a64d79;"><b>Martha Stewart</b> </span>follower</div>
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<i> (truly a follower)</i></div>
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I have admired her ability and talents(with her collaborators) to create</div>
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and make entertaining and food beautiful and so much more.</div>
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Confession...</div>
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<b>I have collected </b></div>
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<b>Martha's magazines </b></div>
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<b>for over 20 years.</b></div>
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<b><i>Have you closed your mouth yet?</i></b></div>
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I think at my age or my stage in life has given the the <b>time</b> </div>
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to finally go through boxes and boxes and boxes...<i>of magazines.</i></div>
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I have to say; that it was easier than I thought it would be to</div>
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purge this really interesting obsession. Be what it may... it was interesting </div>
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the process or the steps that I took to do this dump!</div>
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I wanted to get photo's so I could look back on this final history, share</div>
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with others that you can do this too! I leave you with this </div>
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documentation so that my children will know and see that I cared enough </div>
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<i>(at least with the magazine obsession to throw it </i></div>
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<i>out so they would have to deal with it!)</i></div>
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<i> </i><b>Part 1</b></div>
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I unpacked boxes by date, scanned each magazine and tore out </div>
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whatever I thought was still an interest to me, that meant, patterns, </div>
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clip art, articles that I wanted to read but never had the time. </div>
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<i>(that was time consuming)</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Downstairs in what I call the dungeon, table set up and ready to go.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Martha published several types of magazines <br />through the 20 + year span. <br />I never counted the total magazines I kept but I think<br /> it was around 300+</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A "<b>Food"</b> magazine that lasted only a few years</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Loved, Loved</i></b> the <b>"Kids</b>" magazine. It was full of fun crafts and <br />adventures and stories, science projects.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <b>BABY</b> issues were the shortest lived, how can you <br />compete with Parenting Magazine and blogs!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">While I was doing my purge, the Swede was going through his Sh_ _ !<br />We both had our moments of laughter and micro-managing each others Cr_ _!<br /><br />Stay tune for Part 2..<br />:-)</span></td></tr>
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Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14094401900755576360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744367455917437319.post-2220200655505037462014-11-27T20:25:00.001-07:002014-11-27T20:29:28.383-07:00Thanksgiving 2014<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>H</b>appy <b>T</b>hanksgiving <b>D</b>ay </span></div>
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We hosted dinner at our home. </div>
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The "swede" baked the turkey.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I used my cooper tea pots for the vase holder this year. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I made the brown tablecloth from a 3 3/4 yd remnant from </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">my mother-in-law Margie's fabric pile I inherited.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">My new son-in-law Jason made these birch candle stick holders for their wedding reception. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I grabbed a few and voila..they landed on our table.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here we are, a small group of friends and family. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The weather was beautiful, our stomachs were full. </span></td></tr>
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<br />Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14094401900755576360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744367455917437319.post-25021743029398939042014-11-04T21:32:00.002-07:002014-11-04T21:33:58.931-07:00She did it!<div style="text-align: center;">
I'm pleased and happy to announce</div>
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The marriage of:</div>
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<b>Katlin to Jason</b></div>
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We couldn't be more pleased and excited to have </div>
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Jason become a paert of our family!</div>
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<br />Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14094401900755576360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744367455917437319.post-4123511825672585262014-10-18T18:29:00.003-06:002014-10-18T19:34:47.443-06:00It's been awhile..but don't...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">...<b>f</b></span>aint, I am writing a post that is very important..</div>
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My second daughter Katlin, is engaged and going to be married </div>
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on November 1, 2014.</div>
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We had her bridal shower today and it was fabulous not to mention </div>
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that Katlin was extraordinarily beautiful.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Ariel and I making our happy faces!</span></td></tr>
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Consider the lilies of the field,<br />the blue banks of camas opening<br />into acres of sky along the road.<br />Would the longing to lie down<br />and be washed by that beauty<br />abate if you knew their usefulness,<br />how the native ground their bulbs<br />for flour, how the settlers' hogs<br />uprooted them, grunting in gleeful<br />oblivion as the flowers fell?</div>
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And you—what of your rushed<br />and useful life? Imagine setting it all down—<br />papers, plans, appointments, everything—<br />leaving only a note: "Gone<br />to the fields to be lovely. Be back<br />when I'm through blooming."</div>
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Even now, unneeded and uneaten,<br />the camas lilies gaze out above the grass<br />from their tender blue eyes.<br />Even in sleep your life will shine.<br />Make no mistake. Of course<br />your work will always matter.<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yet Solomon in all his glory<br />was not arrayed like one of these.</em></div>
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<li><span style="text-align: center;">Walk in nature (hiking)</span></li>
<li><span style="text-align: center;">See a movie (went and saw Son of God)</span></li>
<li><span style="text-align: center;">Went to a play in SLC called 3</span></li>
<li><span style="text-align: center;">Went to dinner (several times)</span></li>
<li><span style="text-align: center;">spent an evening at a political Caucasus</span></li>
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senses. We evolve; we change. We notice things that we passed over the day
before: the curve in a sidewalk to make way for a tree in the boulevard, the
purl of a scarf, the transition of a capital that greets the ceiling. We
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Heller strings together so many “threads” that help me think about raising
children; about living a fuller, more physically experiential work life (yes,
even about writing marginalia in a script rather than using the track changes
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the church which are, all M<b>en</b> holding the highest</div>
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leadership positions in <i>the Church</i>.</div>
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I have always be a questioning person, ie: </div>
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-Why does God allow this (tragedy, senseless thing to happen...)<br />
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-When will there be the opportunity to be an equal (among men) in God's world,<br />
in God's church?</div>
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-Why do we not talk of a Heavenly Mother and worship her?<br />
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Why do just men hold the priesthood? (a power from God to act in his name).</div>
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I get that God and Heavenly Mother created us in their image and we do have gender specific traits.</div>
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What I don't get is.. why through the generations of time, women have been excluded.</div>
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I'm not convinced that our Heavenly parents commanded it to be this way.</div>
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As I search for answers and have prayed, I have felt peace with </div>
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some of the answer and non-answers I have felt spiritually. </div>
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If you have read this far in my post, you are probably asking yourself;</div>
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"why is she posting this?"</div>
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I am posting this because it's therapeutic for me, it is letting you know</div>
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that I struggle to know the meaning of life and its complexities.</div>
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I have felt peace and inner struggle at the same time in my doubting,</div>
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but I would not want to change this, it has opened my eyes</div>
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to many things that have not be right with how I view my religious belief's.<br />
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This statement below really made me think about my faith and my doubts<br />
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It was a talk given to a BYU forum by <a href="http://terrylgivens.com/">Terryl Givens</a><br />
that gave me hope for my doubt.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 11.0pt;">We need rethink the relation-ship between doubt
and faith.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 11.0pt;"> In a 2005 BYU Forum ad dress, Terryl Givens defined faith in a
radical new way: as a choice, one made when legitimate evidence supports each
side of possibility. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 11.0pt;">While some people, Givens believes, are simply born with </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 11.0pt;">faith or a gift for faith, more often faith is an acquired trait. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 11.0pt;">And “among
those who vigorously pursue the life of the mind in particular, who are</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 11.0pt;"> committed to the scholarly pursuit of knowledge and rational inquiry, faith is
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 11.0pt;"> often a casualty as it is a product.”1 </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 11.0pt;">In this setting, life becomes, as
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 11.0pt;">a test of our own willful decision to choose faith over
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 11.0pt;"> laden with personal vulnerability and investment. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
option to believe must appear on one’s personal horizon like the fruit of
paradise, perched precariously between sets of demands held in dynamic tension.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 11.0pt;"> What we choose to embrace, to be responsive
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 11.0pt;"> that is positively
laden with moral significance.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Is this a part of life to doubt?</b></div>
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Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14094401900755576360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744367455917437319.post-86164445302086722552014-02-22T14:56:00.000-07:002014-02-22T22:01:13.634-07:00New Life for Succulants <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I</span></b> have wanted to plant an arrangement of </div>
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succulents for quit sometime now and with</div>
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inspiration from my visit to Rogers Gardens in Newport Beach, CA</div>
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I was recently shopping at IKEA and low and behold </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">The Succulent</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The encyclopedia of Succulents contains 49 plant families,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> 409 plant genera and includes</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> 7474 scientific</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> names and synonyms.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> 4763 taxa and cultivars have their individual description sheet,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> 1455 of which are accepted scientific names,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> 161 cultivars names and 5858 synonyms.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Here are the varieties I selected.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I had this large glass bowl that I have used for years to<br /> hold salads in for large groups but decided that it<br /> was time for it to be of good use as the home for the succulents.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I added the layer of small pebbles( as shown in photo above). <br />I arranged the succulents and filled in the area with <br />very small pebbles to give the look in this photo.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Here is a photo of my inspiration from Rogers Garden.<br />This is a basket with sponge moss and succulents.<br /><br /><b>This is really an experiment planting the succulents in rock,<br /> I'll see if they like this environment.</b></span></td></tr>
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<br />Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14094401900755576360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744367455917437319.post-4400915616835429632014-02-21T11:40:00.001-07:002014-02-21T11:40:42.135-07:00Olympic LOVE<div style="text-align: center;">
I can't help but love it when it's Olympic Year....</div>
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I learned about this woman who was a strong<br />
advocate in getting this event into the Olympics.<br />
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/02/14/sarah-burke-tribute_n_4791960.html">SARAH BURKE</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.652000427246094px; text-align: left;">In 2001, Burke, a former moguls skier who trained with the fellows to master the then- nascent sport of freeskiing, was one of few female skiers to compete in what many consider the first women's ski pipe event at Vail's U.S. Open. In 2005, she lobbied X Games organizers to not just display women skiers in the pipe, but pay them the same purse as men.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.652000427246094px; text-align: left;"><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/olympics/ci_25194189/after-womens-olympic-ski-halfpipe-dream-late-sarah#ixzz2tyykJvzM" style="-webkit-transition: 0.1s ease-out; color: #003399; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.1s ease-out;">With first women's Olympic ski halfpipe, a dream for late Sarah Burke is fulfilled - The Denver Post</a> <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/olympics/ci_25194189/after-womens-olympic-ski-halfpipe-dream-late-sarah#ixzz2tyykJvzM" style="-webkit-transition: 0.1s ease-out; color: #003399; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.1s ease-out;">http://www.denverpost.com/olympics/ci_25194189/after-womens-olympic-ski-halfpipe-dream-late-sarah#ixzz2tyykJvzM</a><br /></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here are the first winners of metals in this event:<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gold: Maddie Bowmand (USA)<br />Silver: <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Marie Martinod(France)</span><br />Bronze: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Ayana Onozuka </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Japan)<br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">It was nice to see these women pay special tribute to Sarah Burke.</span></span></td></tr>
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Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14094401900755576360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744367455917437319.post-81231466153414893602014-02-13T17:24:00.002-07:002014-02-21T11:20:49.317-07:00Sister Swenson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">S</span></b>he has arrived...today she flew to Ellicott City, Maryland to </div>
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be welcomed as a new missionary.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0qV-UFocxiI/UvrXLjGfcyI/AAAAAAAAE-w/fpkkD-XyytE/s1600/dallas+&+me.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0qV-UFocxiI/UvrXLjGfcyI/AAAAAAAAE-w/fpkkD-XyytE/s1600/dallas+&+me.JPG" height="400" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Giving the good-by hug..Dallas did well here at the<br />
Provo Temple, she did well-up a bit, but she stayed strong.</td></tr>
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it is very quiet around this home without her.</td></tr>
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<b>Life is good</b><br />
<b>May God watch over you..</b><br />
<b>SISTER SWENSON!!</b></div>
Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14094401900755576360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744367455917437319.post-57811737201596696582014-01-23T19:47:00.001-07:002014-01-23T19:47:34.414-07:00The Last Breakfast<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It has been a non-stop of busy activities getting her ready, I started</div>
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my new job and the "swede" is at his work schedule is at it's peak. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Since it is still wintertime, I put up my small collection of snowflakes.<br />I added bright colorful felt vertical banners.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This photo was taken during the "pre-set up" of the breakfast.<br />I served:<br />A variety of fruit<br />Shirley's (local bakery) sweet rolls<br />5 different quiches (see below)<br />French Toast Souffle/buttermilk syrup &amp brown sugar syrup.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I made 13 quiches two days before the event and kept them cold.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ham & cheese</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Quiche Lorraine</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Spinach & Swiss</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">3 Herb & cheese</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I was so busy that morning, we had over 65 people come for breakfast.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I didn't assign anyone to take photo's...grrrr! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But..</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the memory is there and Dallas will be gone soon for 18 months.</span></td></tr>
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It's a great place to ski no matter what age, they groom </div>
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We weren't going fast, in fact I think we had just gotten off the lift and<br />
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I plopped down on my right side and twisted my knee.<br />
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Putting that unwanted diagnosis a side,<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Animals that love to ski!!</span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My interpretation to this one is..</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and the "local" bunnies came out to see who was on <b>their</b> ski run!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I see that this must be on the <b>"bunny hill"</b>, look to the center back and<br /> you will see the bunnies momma worried that her child took a spill!</span></td></tr>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">E</span></b>xiting a <u>Year</u> brings about 365 days of memories. </div>
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I think this year was packed with so many good times and good things</div>
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that happened to me and to others in my family.</div>
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I want to re-cap it, but first I have to finish Christmas 2013.</div>
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Remember my narcissus I planted after Thanksgiving? </div>
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They "forced" their way to find the light and matured into beautiful flowers.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We hosted Christmas dinner. We sat 11 people at this very large table. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">No one took a photo that day but 4 days later we had another Swenson party</span><br />
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<b>Onto..my next recap post of 2013.</b></div>
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