I was born in the March dawn, the sun shining lightly through snowflakes, welcoming the new spirit of an old soul.
I wailed to return from whence I came.
But the others encouraged me to stay. You chose this, they whispered.
I howled, but I also nursed and gurgled and watched the way of this world. Difficult for this old soul to understand.
Why? I asked.
Why do we hurt others? Why do we rush? Why do we eat? Why can’t you see?
“See what?” my parents asked, frustrated at their inventive daughter.
I pointed to the spirits chasing each other, soaring with glee around my bedroom, winging their way through the spring snow.
“What an imagination you have,” my family chuckled, their expressions bewildered.
So over the years, I stopped the questions. I learned to go with the flow. I learned to not accept, but to realize the ridiculousness of this life, like time, hate, bigotry.
I learned to wait it out.
And in the meantime,
I allow my imagination to tell the truth.
I so like this. 🙂
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Thanks for “jumping” into my March imagination with me! xo
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Love this! Happy birthday, Pam! I hope your day is as special as you! ❤
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A delightful day in my imagination – and in reality too, Jill. 🙂
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Wow! 😀😀. A wonderful post, Pam and I love how imagination holds the truth … may we all find it! As to those ‘whys’, why are there never any answers? Most likely because they’re inexplicable!
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You’re so right, Annika. But the day we stop asking the questions is the day we’ve stopped our imagination! :-0 xo
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Pisces are very imaginative, Pam. We have to take care that we don’t become disillusioned with life. Lovely post.
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Wow. Your comment hit me right in the heart of things, Robbie. So hard to not be disillusioned, thus we Pisceans ILLUMINATE life with as much light and imagination as possible. The light in me honors the light in you. ❤
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Thank you, Pam.
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Happy birthday to you Pisces Pam. Yes Pisces are always creative and have layers like an onion that one has to unwrap carefully to find the essence underneath. Hope you have a glorious year ahead.
Peta
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So many layers, for sure, Peta. But an onion always makes me cry, so I researched to find another fruit or vegetable with a lot of layers. I think I’ll take “Blood Fruit” ` https://www.poetrycenter.org/the-many-layers-of-a-vegetable-or-fruit/ (from a website of poetry by Chicago students!)
Blood Fruit
Genesis R.
It looks like an apple but it is not,
Its shining blood-red color
Gets our attention, touches us.
Eating, its flavor drives us crazy
and sweetens our mouth.
Its skin is rough
like an elephant’s
In its interior keeps a secret:
Its seeds, wrapped in
a deep and flavorful liquid
I cannot say its name
but this is certain: that its
appearance will captivate you
and fascinate your senses
🙂 ❤
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I always said the best thing about March was that it hosted the birthdays of both my parents. Now I can add you to the list of March positives, Pam! Your imagination soars! Happy birthday!🎂
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I am honored to share March as a birthday month with your parents, Molly. THANK YOU. Last night our temps went up to 40 (!) and we had huge thunderstorms. I kept the bedroom window open and could SMELL SPRING. So there’s another good thing about March. 🙂
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Happy Birthday, Pam. If only everyone saw the world this way.
This was a lovely post to read–an antidote to the latest horror story in the news.
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I know, Merril. The horrendous actions of those who hate and kill could bring us all down to deep levels of despair. Through our poetry and stories, I believe we conquer fear and hate and misunderstanding — with our imaginations and creative ways of bringing in light and love to the world. ❤
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Happy birthday, my friend! I hope your day brings you all the wonder you can find. Lovely post, as always.
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It was a WONDERfilled day, Amy. I spent the morning with creative writing students – would could be more WONDERfull than that? 🙂
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Excellent writing, Pamela. Happy Birthday.
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Thank you, John! “Talking” about imagination, you and Gwen have it in spades as proven through your creatively wonderful book The Contract Between Heaven and Earth. ❤
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Oh, thank you so much, Pamela.
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Happy Birthday from one Piscean to another!
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Of course you’re a Piscean – that fits why I enjoy your humor and writing on your blog so much. Happy Birthday – I wonder what your date is…. xo
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Mine was yesterday, the 18th. Yours?
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Happy Happy birthday, one day late. Mine is the Ides of March – the 15th.
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We are very close! Happy Belated! I assume you are celebrating all month? 🙂
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Who can argue with that! Well stated, Warrior Queen! ♥
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To all of us – kings and queens of the Dawn! ❤
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Happy Birthday!
I have a niece (26) and nephew (15) born today.
Both BFF’s parents are March babies.
As is my younger brother.
March is a good month for babies!
Loved the post.
Signed,
A.O.S.W.I.O. (Another Old Soul Waiting It Out)
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Dear A.O.S.W.I.O. – The good news is that we’re having FUN while waiting it out! ❤
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So first, a Happy Birthday goes to you on this 15th of March (hopefully not raining like mine is!)
And I love this. Be true to yourself!
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Thanks, Dale. I think one of the good points of aging is that we find it easier to know ourselves, and thus be true to ourselves. Cheers to your ‘self,’ from my ‘self.’ ❤
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Beautiful post! you have a marvelous spirit! Happy Birthday!! Love, Julie
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My spirit honors yours spirit, Julie. Namaste and love.
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Happy Birthday to a truthful woman who has an inspiring spirit. Long may you jump!
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I find so much ‘spirit’ in our blogging world, don’t you? xo ❤
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Happy birthday! Love this post!
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Thanks for the birthday greetings and the visit here – always so positive and sweet, Kate. Cheers! xo
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Happy Birthday Pam! You have a delightful imagination and writing style. 🙂
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Talk about imagination! Loved your story based on Diana’s prompt. I’m going to try it for next Friday’s post.
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Yay! I look forward to reading it.
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You’ve been an inventive daughter from way, way back. Is that you jumping in the last photo? That’s what I imagine.
I hope you were properly feted on your birthday, Pam. More power to you and more energetic years to come! 🙂
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I’d like to imagine that’s me jumping in this post, also. It’s my granddaughter, but really. I can jump. In inches, though, not feet. 😉 Hugs to you, Marian.
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A lovely post Pamela. I hope you had a wonderful birthday.
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Thanks, Brigid. My Pisces birthday went swimmingly. 🙂
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You bring the Ides of March up to a whole new delightful level. Happy Birthday neighbor.
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The Ides of March got a bad rep because of Shakespeare. But the ides of March—March 15—initially marked the first full moon of a new year. I like that, being a big fan of the moon, myself. So no ‘beware of the Ides, instead “Look out at the night sky on the Ides!” 🙂 ❤
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Another imaginative Piscean. May we never lose the power of our colourful minds! Enjoy your day and every day after! Sending many hugs and much love. March babies rock!
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March babies rock indeed, Darlene. And we dream, make-believe in the most wonderful ways, and pat each other on the back for being fellow Pisceans. 🙂
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Happy birthday, Pam. I’m glad you’ve let your imagination run wild and have harnessed it to come out in your novels.
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We ARE wild women writers, aren’t we Anneli? Cheers to that! 🙂
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It’s the only way we know!
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Happy Birthday and this is an awesome post! Keep that imagination running freely! I actually wrote about imagination today too! 🙂
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Without imagination, we’d be stuck in mud, unable to smell the flowers and talk to the birds. May we always fly away to worlds imagined and unknown. xo
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Wonderfully said!!! ❤
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Happy Birthday month, Pam!! I’m going to say now that I have chills all over. I know those words. Thank you for putting them out there.
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I have chills from your chills. We old souls KNOW each other in the most wonderful ways, don’t we? ❤
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Yes we do. It’s hard to find each other.
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The power of writing…and blogging!
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Are you a Pisces? Well, that explains a lot if you are. Old souls indeed, Pam. I love how children are able to see the world more clearly than adults, and how sad when they conform and shut down. Happy Birthday my unique friend. Keep imagining, believing, and jumping!
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I’m a proud Piscean through and through, diving into the waters of my imagination every minute possible. But you understand that, my friend!
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Happy Birthday Pam! Keep flying on the wings of imagination, they take us to unknown lands!
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Thank goodness for our wings, Balroop. I know yours are shimmery in the lightness of being.
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The “whys” make good writers, don’t they?
Happy birthday, my friend. Hope is a great one!
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The WHYs are What makes a Writer, for sure, Mr. Writerfellow.
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May the celebration of this eventful day for you, be one of happiness and continued imagination. I very much enjoyed reading about how you perceive your arrival into the world. I think most children have an unlimited imagination. I know that I did growing up but probably for most of us we lose that ability to imagine but for writers and artists the imagination continues to flourish and that is surely a good thing,
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Agreed, Yvonne. It’s a gift for those of us adults who have refused to let go of the imagination (or, dare I say, the “sight”) of childhood.
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Happy Birthday, Pam!! How I had to laugh about you being told “Oh it is just your imagination”. Guess what? I was told the same thing! Mine wasn’t about seeing spirits (although I had imaginary friends) but it was how I “knew” things. Up to this very day that “knowing” I use all the time, and sometimes hear that “voice” that says, “this is just your imagination”. I actually say GO AWAY for you are not real! I’m sure you get what I’m talking about. SO good to know another “old soul”. I agree. This world makes zero sense. BIG (((HUGS)))!! You aint getting older …. just better! 🌹🌹🌹
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Ohhhhh YES, I know exactly what you’re talking (writing) about here. As a child I knew I was being ‘put down’ (and my thoughts discarded) when I was told it was “just my imagination.” I think this happens to so many, so they tamp down the creative wonder and “sight” within them. What a loss! For those of us who hung/clung on to those extra senses and knowings – hooray. Makes the senselessness of certain aspects of life a bit more palatable, knowing it’s fleeting and not the “total picture.” (This is rather rambling, but I think you get my gist….) 🙂
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Thank goodness some of us have hung onto that “inner kid”! YAY for us!! My “knowings” have become so strong lately which truly astounds me. I’m sure I am missing out still on signs and such as I’m still not quite “here”, still recovering from tragedy. Yet when I am Connected …. WOW!
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Happy Birthday, Pam. I love this post! 💐
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Many thanks, Jennifer. I’m a bit relieved, because I was a little worried about writing a post so personal and yet so “out there.” But as always, the blogging world is sensitive to our sensitivities, and open to them. ❤
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Wishing you a Happy Birthday, Pam! What a lovely, spiritual post. I could relate to your thoughts.
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I am THRILLED that you can relate to what I tried to describe here in this post. Not easy – rather ethereal at the same time as being a bit “out there” to some. Thanks for taking it in with the honesty and joy I felt while posting it.
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Love it, Pam… Happy Birthday!
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Thank you, Bette! ❤
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Very well done, Pam….and Happy Birthday!
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May our bodies continue to feel as young as our imaginations, George! 🙂
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Ohh… I love that thought🙂
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Happy Birthday, Pam. Love your philosophy on life. Truth is a very precious commodity which is becoming quite rare these days.
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Ah, I like how you responded to my rather ‘strange and personal’ birthday post. But YES. Being truthful of how we feel and what we experience in the world – these things are shared with love and the offering to our readers to take in whatever feels right.
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Fascinating thoroughly researched post, Sandomina. Thank you.
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I got so excited about this post I forgot to thank you for following my blog. I appreciate the time you take to visit.Thank you.
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Your blog is fantastic! As I tell my writing students, if we are OPEN and HONEST in our writing, then we connect to our readers. You do all of the above.
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Thank you, Pam. That means a lot.
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Beautiful, Pam. I’m a March birthday, too. I like having a spring birthday. 🙂 You have a very special gift, and I’m glad you share it with us.
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Ah, another Piscean! I love meeting those under the same sign. It’s interesting how much we ‘understand’ each other. I wonder what your date is? (Mine is the actual Ides of March). In New England, it’s hard to think of the middle of March as “spring” (on my b.d. there was still plenty of snow on the ground). ;-( But the songbirds have returned and I fill the birdfeeder and sing back to them: “Namaste!” xo
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Mine was today, Pam, the 20th. 🙂 We carry spring in our hearts (and our step!) even if we’re waiting for the signs of spring we yearn for. And the birds are a wonderful reminder that we are all waking to spring. 🙂
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY one day late – but all month long. Tweet tweetie tweet tweet (that’s bird song, not a technological tweet) 🙂 ❤
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LOL! Yes, remember when we didn’t have to explain “tweet?” Thank you so much!
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What a beautiful and imaginative celebration of a March birthday! Happy birthday, Pam.
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All different kinds of “births’ in our lives. Here’s to the continued birth of creativity and imagination. ❤
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I tried too many times to post my comment. (It rejected my password.😫) It would have said “I so enjoy the plethora of experiences of the writing group! Many more Happy Birthdays! 🎈 “
It would not have said and did you share the cake??? Looked tasty. See you next week! Debbie
Sent from my iPhone
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Ah, the plethora of ways to get trapped in technology and add frustration to our days. But in actuality, both of your comments came through. To sharing stories….and cake!
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You have not lost your creative spirit! Happy birthday, Pam! What a way to celebrate another year of life. Cheers!
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So far, adding years to my life has only increased the crazy creativity (“just” my imagination). May we all get younger with each birthday. 🙂
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Keep asking questions. Keep chasing answers. Keep imagining. Keep dreaming. And, keep enjoying those new dawns! I hope you had a fantastic birthday – inside and outside of yourself. 🙂
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What a neat comment, Liesbet. My family surrounded me with flowers and cards and laughter. With these kinds of birthdays, I hope I have many more March dawns to come. 🙂
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I hope you had a wonderful birthday, Pamela, reconnecting with your imagination and the spirit friends from the lands beyond from whence you came. I enjoy knowing that you found your truth.
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Man thanks, Norah. Interestingly, the truth is “out there” in our creative souls, just waiting to be discovered and recognized. Hugs to you!
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True! 🙂
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What a wonderfully imaginative post !! Awesome. Keep up the good work work.
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Thanks much, Rosetta. I’m looking forward to discovering what your “awesome” blog will be sharing.
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Happy Birthday, Pam!!! So many questions, so few satisfying answers. Without our imaginations I think life would be so much more difficult to cope with. Here’s to our delightful imaginations and our hard-won truths!!
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I suppose if the answers were easy to come by, we’d let our imaginations whither and die. :-0 So here’s to our creative endeavors to explain the unexplainable. ❤
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Happy Birthday Pam. May your imagination contiue to flourish and lucky us who get to be inspired to open our minds.
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The best part of blog writing and reading is the way we inspire each other. You and your guy have ALMOST inspired me to go climb a mountain. (Notice I didn’t mention SKI down one.) 🙂
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One step at a time! 🙂
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Amen Pam. May we dance to our own tunes and follow our imaginations. Imaginations are a great place to escape some of the ugliness. ❤ And Happy Birthday! ❤
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Oh, what a wise woman you are, Debby. Yes, our imaginations can be made of lightness and brightness to cover up the ugly out there. xo
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Happy Birthday Pam! And here’s to asking questions because we can’t be good writers without them 🙂
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Kaboom, Andrea. That’s it right there. Writers MUST ask the questions, and if their creative imaginations help them find the answers, all the better. ❤
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Your parents were right—what an imagination!
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Haha. They shook their heads over my imagination throughout our lives together. ❤
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Love your imagination… we are all the better for it! 😉
You quote is awesome.. I also like “Those who were caught dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music” This is sooooo me! ❤
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Oh my gosh, Kim, what a FABULOUS quote. I’d never heard that one. Here’s to you and me dancing out our imaginations, our joy, our wonder, with glee.
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I love you. 💕 That’s all. 💕
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That’s more than all. That’s everything. ❤
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Dear Pam.. I can not begin to tell you how this post spoke to me… WHY indeed,
Keep your imagination flowing with Love dear Pam.. There are many such angels ready to wrap their wings to help us soar..
Much love to you, and thank you for being a seeker of Truth.. ❤ ❤ ❤
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Many thanks for reading my DAWN post, Sue, and feeling the energy/love/positivity/wonder I send out with it. Namaste. ❤
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My pleasure ❤
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Such a clever post. You make me think a lot about March, Pam.
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March is a stepping stone into Spring. And that’s no small potatoes (or small patch of crocus). 🙂
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Loved it💫
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Thank you! ❤
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