Category: Mojo Monday
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Mojo Monday ~ Happy 1st Birthday AND Happy Mother’s Day
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Happy Birthday to you!Happy Birthday to you!Happy Birthday dear Mojo Monday!Happy Birthday to you! Mojo Monday was born in May 2010, so we are celebrating her 1st Birthday today. She has taught me a number of things during her first year of life. (Children tend to do that!) She taught me that when you have…
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Mojo Monday ~ Poetry for Mother Earth
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Image Digitally Created by Michelle Fairchild in 2008 It seemed fitting to bring together poetry and thoughts about our Mother Earth seeing as how April is National Poetry Month and the 41st Anniversary of Earth Day was celebrated on April 22nd. Our planet absolutely astounds me. There are so many descriptive words that come…
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Mojo Monday ~ Express Yourself
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Jack Kornfield, Buddhist author and teacher once wrote “I’ve been told the story of a six-year-old girl who asked her mother where she was going one afternoon. The mother replies that she was headed for the university to teach her students how to draw and paint. ‘You mean they’ve forgotten?’ her daughter asked, amazed. Many…
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Mojo Monday ~ Poetry
po·et·ry [poh-i-tree] –noun 1. the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts. 2. literary work in metrical form; verse. 3. prose with poetic qualities. 4. poetice qualities however manifested: the poetry of simple acts and things. 5. poetic spirit or feeling: The pianist played the prelude…
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Mojo Monday ~ Water
st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } Albert Szent-Gyorgyi a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology – Medicine in 1937 and is credited with discovering vitamin C described water in this way, “Water is life’s mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.” The adult human body is composed of approximately 55…
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Mojo Monday ~ International Women’s Day March 8th
The first International Women’s Day events were run in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland in 1911 and attended by over one million people. 100 years on, International Women’s Day (IWD) has become a global mainstream phenomena celebrated across many countries and is an official holiday in approximately 25 countries including Afghanistan, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam and…
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Mojo Monday ~ Superhero Therapy
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What if taking silly and wild photographs was the cure for lifting your spirits? What if creativity, a sense of humor and some good ol’ make believe could not only change your life, but also bring laughter and hope to the lives of others? This is exactly what happened for 91-year-old Hungarian grandmother Frederika who…
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Mojo Monday ~ LOVE
Today is Valentine’s Day. A day that is supposed to be all about love and romance, but what exactly is love? Wikipedia begins by describing love this way: “Love is the emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. In some…
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Mojo Monday ~ Cinderella Ate My Daughter
“As with all of us, what I want for my daughter seems so simple: for her to grow up healthy, happy, and confident, with a clear sense of her own potential and the opportunity to fulfill it. Yet she lives in a world that tells her whether she is three or thirty-three, that the surest…
We Are All Meant to Shine! 