MsDeena

🔹 True and Inspiring Stories...........Kindness of Strangers

🔹 A Family’s Food Angel
While going through a divorce, my mother fretted over her new worries: no income, the same bills, and no way to afford groceries. It was around this time that she started finding boxes of food outside our door every morning. This went on for months, until she was able to land a job. We never did find out who it was who left the groceries for us, but they truly saved our lives.

🔹Seven Miles For Me
Leaving a store, I returned to my car only to find that I’d locked my keys and cell phone inside. A teenager riding his bike saw me kick a tire and say a few choice words. What’s wrong? he asked. I explained my situation. “But even if I could call my wife, I said, she can’t bring me her car key, since this is our only car. He handed me his cell phone. Call your wife and tell her I’m coming to get her key.That’s seven miles round trip. Don’t worry about it. An hour later, he returned with the key. I offered him some money, but he refused. Let’s just say I needed the exercise,” he said. Then, like a cowboy in the movies, he rode off into the sunset.
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🔹 My Granddaughter’s Dress
I saw a dress in a consignment shop that I knew my granddaughter would love. But money was tight, so I asked the store owner if she could hold it for me. May I buy the dress for you? asked another customer. Thank you, but I can’t accept such a gracious gift, I said. Then she told me why it was so important for her to help me. She’d been homeless for three years, she said, and had it not been for the kindness of strangers, she would not have been able to survive. I’m no longer homeless, and my situation has improved, she said. I promised myself that I would repay the kindness so many had shown me. She paid for the dress, and the only payment she would accept in return was a heartfelt hug.

🔹 I Can Still Help
As I walked through the parking lot, all I could think about was the dire diagnosis I had handed my patient Jimmy pancreatic cancer. Just then, I noticed an elderly gentleman handing tools to someone working under his stalled car. That someone was Jimmy. Jimmy, what are you doing? I yelled out. Jimmy dusted off his pants. My cancer didn’t tell me not to help others, Doc, he said, before waving at the old man to start the car. The engine roared to life. The old man thanked Jimmy and drove off. Then Jimmy got into his car and took off as well. Take-home message: Kindness has no limits and no restrictions.

🔹 Have a wonderful weekend.........*Take good care of yourself my friend.
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🔸 This Day In History........August 15th 1969
*On August 15, 1969, the Woodstock music festival opens on a patch of farmland in White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate New York town of Bethel. Promoters John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and Michael Lang originally envisioned the festival as a way to raise funds to build a recording studio and rock-and-roll retreat near the town of Woodstock, New York. The longtime artists’ colony was already a home base for Bob Dylan and other musicians. Despite their relative inexperience, the young promoters managed to sign a roster of top acts, including the Jefferson Airplane, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival and many more.



... *Half a million people waited on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for the three-day music festival to start. Billed as An Aquarian Experience 3 Days of Peace and Music, the epic event would later be known simply as Woodstock and become synonymous with the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Woodstock was a success.

*But the massive concert didn’t come off without a hitch Last-minute venue changes, bad weather and the hordes of attendees caused major headaches. Still, despite—or because of—a lot of sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll and rain, Woodstock was a peaceful celebration and earned its hallowed place in pop culture history.
🔸 Hope you are well...Enjoy the weekend and always stay safe.
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ᕼᗩᐯE ᗩ ᔕᗩᖴE ᗩᑎᗪ ᗯOᑎᗪEᖇᖴᑌᒪ ᗯEEK ᗩᕼEᗩᗪ...............ᔕTᗩY ᕼEᗩᒪTᕼY.

Swedish Artist - Painter - Illustrator.....☆ Alexander Jansson ....Creative imaginings
Alexander Jansson is a freelance artist born in Uppsala, Sweden, who lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden. He has an offbeat and unique view of the world he creates. Sleeping House is his design studio. He specializes in cover art, illustration, character design, concept art and graphic design.







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Happy May....*Hope you and everyone you care for is in good health....Stay safe my friend.
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★Sir Elton Hercules John born Reginald Kenneth Dwight, 25 March 1947,is an English singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer.Raised in the Pinner area of London, John learned to play piano at an early age, and by 1962 had formed Bluesology, an RandB band with whom he played until 1967. John has sold more than 300 million records, making him one of the best-selling music artists.He has received five Grammy Awards, five Brit Awards, two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Tony Award, a Disney Legends award, and the Kennedy Center Honor.

Rocket Man
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Crocodile Rock
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I'm Still Standing
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
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Saturday Night’s Alright
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Your Song
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Little Jeannie
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Don't Go Breaking My Heart
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Honky Cat
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Pinball Wizard
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Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything......*Athenian philosopher Plato.

★ᕼᗩᐯE ᗩ ᔕᗩᖴE ᗯEEKEᑎᗪ......ᔕTᗩY ᗯEᒪᒪ.
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*𝑩𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒎𝒐𝒊𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𝑾𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓......𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝑻𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒏, *𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒅𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉.𝑵𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒔, 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓.― 𝑫𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒊 𝑳𝒂𝒎𝒂 𝑿𝑰𝑽...........𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒚 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉𝒚 𝑴𝒚 𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅.

ᗩᗰᕮᖇIᑕᗩᑎ ᗩᑌTᕼOᖇ KᖇISTᗩᑎ ᕼIGGIᑎS............ᒪIᖴᕮ ᗩᑎᗪ OTᕼᕮᖇ IᑎᑕOᑎᐯᕮᑎIᕮᑎᑕᕮS
★Kristan Higgins is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nearly twenty novels, which have been translated into more than two dozen languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide.She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two children....In this book, three generations of women in the London family come together one summer, including Genevieve, the unforgiving matriarch, so convinced of her own moral superiority and so broken from a long-ago loss, her adult granddaughter, Emma, who had to forge a life on her own after getting pregnant in high school; and Emma’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Riley, who is the key to bringing these estranged women together.
★ The summer is full of shocking secrets, surprising twists, and unexpected grace. Despite their differences, Genevieve and Emma love each other fiercely, and once Emma understands what Genevieve is truly up against, she turns woman warrior on her behalf while also creating a new life for herself and Riley in the place she’d never expected to come back to. Higgins explores another set of deeply affecting topics using engaging characters and a full spectrum of realistic emotions, humor, anger, anguish, and pride, among others, but above all, hope.
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A Publishers Weekly and USA Today Bestseller
A heart-wrenching page-turner told with warmth and humor...People Magazine
A rich testament to the power of second chances...Women’s World

ᕼᗩᑭᑭY SᑌᑎᗪᗩY......ᕼᗩᐯᕮ ᗩ ᗯOᑎᗪᕮᖇᖴᑌᒪ ᗯᕮᕮK ᗩᕼᕮᗩᗪ........STᗩY Sᗩᖴᕮ
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Incredible Artwork.................By Digital Artist Kelly Tan
Who most will know by her online username *LovePaperPlane* Kelly uses her iPhone and iPad to combine raw images into stunning fantasy pieces of art that transport you into another world.

🔹I’m a full-time mother and hobbyist artist from Malaysia. I love art, design and drawing. I enjoy spending my free time taking photographs and creating digital artworks.


🔹Watch This Toddler Give a Grieving Father a Surprise Hug
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🔹Jack Savoretti - Music Video...Candlelight
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Happy March........Have a safe and wonderful week......Be well my friend.
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⭐𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙏𝙤 𝘼𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 - 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮......𝘽𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙣 𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨
Biringan City is a place that is said to be invisibly. It is truly famous but it only appears
to the eyes of selected people.Is this city truly invisible, or could it be a portal to the realm of *Engkanto...*Enchanted beings* This one is probably a place you don’t want to travel, but if you are looking for an epic adventure Biringan is the perfect place. But there is no guarantee that you can get out of this place.It is said that Biringan City lie between Gandara, Tarangan and Pagsanha in Samar province of the Philippines.The name *Biringan*itself, translates,a place to look for missing people.

... ★ Because of fear of retribution from the inhabitants of the lost city, the local only talk about it in hushed whispers. The city is inhabited by supernatural beings, it said that the engkantos are shapechangers who can transform as human or animal, without philtrum, a vertical groove between the nose and the upper lip, they are more terrifying.
★ Those who have seen this mythical city have said that there are many buildings, but it more looks like cathedral buildings. It is described as dazzling city of light with high and magnificent structures equipped with advanced technology by some ships that passed by. According to the story anyone who have seen this city had been victims of demon possessions.In some case small number of bus drivers blamed the engkanto for being lost to Biringan City. They said that engkantos controls their mind to take the path of Biringan. And they found themselves lost.
★ No one knows where the Biringan exactly lies; no one can ever tell how to go there. It will only show to the ones who really believe. We can’t deny the similarity of the stories of the people who claims to witness the mystery of Biringan City. If it doesn’t tickle your thought when you’re awake, it will surely visit your imagination while you sleep.

⭐𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨.....𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙬𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙖𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙....𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙨𝙖𝙛𝙚
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✯𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨.......𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙤𝙮 𝙒𝙝𝙤 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝘼 𝙑𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙚
We all have struggles and burdens that we deal with on a daily basis. For untold thousands of people, they can carry hardships, misery, and a sense of doom with them for years.

✯𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙤𝙮 𝙒𝙝𝙤 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝘼 𝙑𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙚 ......Once upon a time in a small mountain village, it was the custom for the villagers to strap on their knapsacks each morning. Then, during the day, each time they worried about something or felt depressed about a problem, they would pick up a small pebble and put it in their knapsack. The knapsacks were heavy and a burden to carry because the villagers never emptied them. They carried their burdens every day. It was all they knew.One day one of the village elders walked down to the river bank bent over from his knapsack full of burdens and noticed one of the small boys from the village skipping pebbles across the water. The boy’s knapsack was empty.What are you doing the old man asked. And why is your knapsack empty Why aren’t you carrying your burdens like the rest of us.I come down to the river bank at the end of each day, the boy said, and skip my pebbles across the water until my knapsack is empty. I see no reason to keep carrying them.The old man was stunned and so bent over from his knapsack full of burdens that he could hardly move. He had never seen anyone cast their burdens away like that. Would you like to try it the boy asked.The old man was hesitant, yet it seemed like such a good idea. Slowly he reached into his knapsack that was large and heavy from all the burdens he had accumulated over many years. He grabbed a pebble and studied it, recalling the burden of pain that he felt when he had placed it in his knapsack. He was so bent over that it was difficult to cast the burden away and watch it skip across the water and finally disappear, but he somehow did it..The boy smiled. The old man smiled also. It was easier than he thought to let go of the burden. Then he tossed another pebble, another burden, then another, and another. The boy stayed and watched. They built a fire and the old man kept throwing until his knapsack was at last empty. He felt so relieved.The next day the old man, standing straight and tall, told the other villagers what happened and how good he felt. They could see how happy he was, how he looked and acted like a different person. They were amazed.At the end of the day, all the villagers joined the old man and the small boy and went to the river bank and skipped their burdens across the water until their knapsacks were empty. They were amazed at how good and happy they felt. They never continued to hang onto their burdens again. A sign was erected at the entrance to the village that said.....
... 𝙄𝙏’𝙎 𝙃𝘼𝙍𝘿 𝙏𝙊 𝘽𝙀 𝙊𝙉 𝙏𝙊𝙋 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝙇𝘿 𝙒𝙃𝙀𝙉 𝙔𝙊𝙐’𝙍𝙀 𝘾𝘼𝙍𝙍𝙔𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙄𝙏 𝙊𝙉 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙐𝙇𝘿𝙀𝙍𝙎....
.....𝙇𝙀𝙏 𝙂𝙊 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀...

✯𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙬𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠𝙚𝙣𝙙..............𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙨𝙖𝙛𝙚
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❤️ 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙝 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩. 𝙈𝙖𝙮 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙮 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙢 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙......𝘽𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡. .....𝙃𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙮 𝙁𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙮

ᑕᗩᖇᑎᕮᐯᗩᒪᕮ ᗪI ᐯᕮᑎᕮᘔIᗩ 2020..............2020 ᐯᕮᑎIᑕᕮ ᑕᗩᖇᑎIᐯᗩᒪ...*ITᗩᒪY
★In 1980, Venice renewed the tradition. Every year,on February 08th to February 25th three million visitors fill the bridges, canals and squares of Venice and turn the city into a giant theater stage.

★The city itself becomes a living and breathing decoration. Visiting the city during the carnival dates is a marvelous opportunity to reveal the most closely guarded secrets of one of the most unique and magic cities in the world. The mask is an indispensable part of ancient tradition from the 11th century.
★ The original Carnival took place in 1162 to honor one of Venice's victorious battles when the city was known as the Repubblica della Serenissima. It took more than a hundred years before city leaders proclaimed Carnival an official event, and then it grew until its wild peak in the 18th century, when Venice was renowned as the pleasure capital of Europe, producing the likes of the famously hedonistic Casanova.The carnival of Venice is unlike any other carnival in Europe or the whole world.
... ★ To best understand Carnival of Venice, you need to understand the importance of the maschera or masks.The mascherari, or professional mask makers, have prestigious roles in society, with statues honoring them dating to 1436.Masks allow members from all classes of society to party together under the veil of anonymity.......★ Will make you wish you lived in a different time period ★
★ ᕼᗩᐯᕮ ᗩ ᗯOᑎᗪᕮᖇᖴᑌᒪ ᗯᕮᕮK.......STᗩY Sᗩᖴᕮ
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˜”*°•.˜”*°• 𝘖𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 14𝘵𝘩, 2019 𝘈𝘮𝘺 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥’𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 36 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘭𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘯 𝘑𝘶𝘭𝘺 23𝘳𝘥 2011 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯, 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦, 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘺, 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦, 𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴, 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬, 𝘫𝘢𝘻𝘻 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭, 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 •°*”˜.•°*”˜
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𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘛𝘰 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬
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𝘙𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘣
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𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦
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𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘐'𝘮 𝘕𝘰 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥
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𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴
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𝘉𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘭
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𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘋𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢 𝘋𝘢𝘺 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴
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𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘐𝘴 𝘈 𝘓𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦
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𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘋𝘳𝘺 𝘖𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘖𝘸𝘯
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𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘥.....𝘉𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥.
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𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗪𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸....𝗔 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁............ ...𝗕𝘆 𝗗𝗿.𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻
I walk because, somehow, it’s like reading....... You’re privy to these lives and conversations that have nothing to do with yours...............Every walk is a sort of crusade.

Why do I walk? I like the rhythm of it, my shadow always a little ahead of me on the pavement. I like being able to stop when I like, to lean against a building and make a note in my journal, or read an email, or send a text message, and for the world to stop while I do it. Walking, paradoxically, allows for the possibility of stillness. Walking is mapping with your feet. It helps you piece a city together, connecting up neighbourhoods that might otherwise have remained discrete entities, different planets bound to each other, sustained yet remote. I like seeing how in fact they blend into one another, I like noticing the boundaries between them. Walking helps me feel at home. There’s a small pleasure in seeing how well I’ve come to know the city through my wanderings on foot, crossing through different neighborhoods of the city, some I used to know quite well, others I may not have seen in a while, like getting reacquainted with someone I once met at a party. Sometimes I walk because I have things on my mind, and walking helps me sort them out. I walk because it confers or restores a feeling of placeness. I walk because, somehow, it’s like reading. You’re privy to these lives and conversations that have nothing to do with yours, but you can eavesdrop on them. Sometimes it’s overcrowded; sometimes the voices are too loud. But there is always companionship. You are not alone......*You walk in the city side by side with the living and the dead.
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ᕼᗩᐯE ᗩ ᗯOᑎᗪEᖇᖴᑌᒪ ᗯEEK.......ᔕTᗩY ᔕᗩᖴE.
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𝘼𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧, 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧, 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩. ..............𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙢 𝙋𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙮𝙖𝙣
Mariam Petrosyan, is most well known as the author of the award-winning novel The Gray House.Mariam Petrosyan was born in 1969 in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. After finishing an art college she became a cartoonist at the Studio of Armenfilm. Later she moved to Moscow to work at Soyuzmultfilm, but came back to Yerevan in 1995 and returned to Armenfilm.
🔹 The House, which sits overlooked on the outskirts of town, is a boarding school for disabled young adults. Isolated from the Outsides, the residents of the House are enmeshed in a carefully constructed world of unspoken rules and thorny histories. The meandering narrative moves back and forth in time, alternating narrators and tenses, to paint an intricate portrait of a social order that appears ultimately dictated by an unknown force, understood by its inhabitants to be the House itself. When student deaths begin to pile up over the course of the narrative, readers can identify with newcomer Smoker as he tries to understand the mysteries of the House and the source of its power over its inhabitants.....Mariam Petrosyan rips up the rule book, presenting a highly original and energetic novel that will give the reader an insight into a world that is seldom presented.
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🔹 I genuinely, enjoyed this book. This is absolutely my sort of novel. I loved the characters, I loved the structure, and I loved the surreal sense of mysticism and deep unease that permeated the whole of the House. I loved the whimsy, I loved the quirkiness, and I loved the constant uncertainty.

🔹 In terms of genre, this is an excellent example of weird, surreal, quirky, slice of life fantasy with a dose of magical realism...*The house, it emerges, has hidden dimensions

Have a wonderful weekend...........Stay safe
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Wishing you 12 months of success, 52 weeks of laughter, 365 days of fun, 8760 hours of joy, 525600 minutes of good luck and 31536000 seconds of happiness....Stay Healthy-Stay Safe....*Happy 2020.

Love, joy and happiness is all I wish for you. May you wake up on Christmas morning and find them all in your shoe.....Have a Blessed Christmas week......Happy Holidays....Stay Safe.

..SᕼOᖇT ᖴIᒪᗰ.............................................. ......✰ Sᕮᗯ TOᖇᑎ
Sew Torn is a tale of a seamstress, her thread, an unusual encounter on a lonely mountain road, and a deal gone really bad...................*Very well done and clever film......
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True Story.............*A Family Tradition....................By Author-Joseph M. Mazzella

✯ It was mid-October when I first spotted them.They were the first Christmas decorations of the year. It was the beginning of the 10 week period when the stores do all they can to get us to buy all we can. It was the great Christmas shopping rush and the bigger the gifts the better. I shook my head sadly and walked on, but then a wonderful memory came back into my mind. It was late-December from several years earlier. I was shopping alone trying to pick up some thick Winter socks to warm my frozen feet. As I rounded the corner in the store I saw a Christmas tree full of paper angels. On each angel was the name of a needy child whose family couldn’t afford to buy them a gift that year. Shoppers who picked an angel could buy a simple toy or gift and the store would wrap it and send it to the child that Christmas. Around the tree I saw a teenage boy and girl picking out several angels apiece. Their mother was smiling while she watched them. I walked up next to her and started talking with her. She told me that her children started this several years ago when she first explained to them what the Charity Angel tree was for. Each offered to give up one of their toys that year so that a needy child could have one. It didn’t stop then, though. Each year since the kids had saved money they earned throughout the year and bought more and more children the gifts they wouldn’t have otherwise. It had become a family tradition. I smiled when she finished, walked over to the tree, and picked out a few angels too. I left the store feeling in touch with the true meaning of Christmas.
... ✯ May we always remember that life is not about the money you have or the things you own. Life is about the love you share and the people you help. And may we also see that it is never too late to start a family tradition

Lonely Grandma Posts Touching Craigslist Ad Searching For Christmas Family
✯ The listing comes from a woman who lives in Tulsa. She claims she has no family and would really like to be a part of one this Christmas...Sadly, the woman removed the post after receiving hateful messages. However, that hate is fueling a love-filled search to find the woman and make her Christmas one to remember. An Oklahoma man named Carson Carlock decided to try and find the woman by posting her ad on Facebook. His post has been shared more than 6,000 times and eventually reached the local news. Carson said he did get in touch with her before she deleted the post but all he knows is her name is Carrie. Hopefully Grandma Carrie will see the news because dozens of people have offered to open their homes to her this Christmas while hundreds of others are hoping for an address to send her a Christmas card.

Have a wonderful weekend.........Be well.
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