Author: Michelle Fairchild
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Mojo Monday ~ Family
“The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that…
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Mojo Monday ~ Friendship
“friends: us. always. travels. stories told and a few kind lies. lots of laughter and a little chocolate. secrets shared and tears shed. kindness with time in between. dreams and awakenings. long roads, healing and quiet comforts. wicked mischief and wanton hilarity. time and always us: friends. always.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher “A woman needs…
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Mojo Monday ~ Literature
“Books are carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.” ~ Barbara W. Tuchman I am a lover of books. My love affair started when I was a very…
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Mojo Monday: Freedom
“Every human has four endowments ~ self awareness, consciousness, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom…The power to choose, to respond, to change.” ~Stephen R. Covey Freedom: 1 : the quality or state of being free: as a : the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action…
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Mojo Monday: Let’s Play!
“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!” ~ Benjamin Franklin Do you remember when your days as a kid revolved around riding your bike, building forts, making playdough creations, coloring, creating storylines about Barbie and Ken as they cruised through your backyard in the pink corvette?…
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Mojo Monday: Manifesto
Manifesto ~ a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer. At the Cosmic Cowgirl Bountiful Conference in October 2008 Sark presented a writing workshop on the second day. One of the activities she facilitated was to create our own Writer’s Manifesto. Sark shared with us one she had created and…
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Mojo Monday: Celebration!
“Find occasions to celebrate your happiness. There is more to celebrate than anniversaries and birthdays.” ~ unknown Let’s get this Celebration started right. Here is a video to get you really groovin’ for a minute or two and then we will get this partay started! Let’s sing a bit together now Yahoo! This is your…
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Philanthropy Monday
The word philanthropy has its roots in the Greek language meaning “love for mankind.” It was never meant to apply to donors of thousands or millions of dollars. ~ Arthur C. Frantzreb Inside every woman is a potential major philanthropist waiting to emerge. ~ Joan M. Fisher Consider this statement fromTim Ferris, author of a…
