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Real Life Kindness

RAVE to the Seattle Parks and Recreation staff for keeping all the baseball fields in good shape so the kids can play ball and the parents and grandparents can hang out together in the parks watching baseball. RAVE to those who helped … Continue reading

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walking on sunshine

Walk barefoot on a rock wall or sidewalk.Feel the warmth of sunshine it absorbedthroughout the day Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real-life wisdom on to others as I embark on this … Continue reading

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Taste of Summer

And then, of course, there are the tomatoes, which inspire their own strain of fanaticism. Did you know that every time you refrigerate a tomato, an angel loses its wings? Did you know that each time you use a grocery … Continue reading

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Past Paradise

When we were 12, we caught bullfrogs in the weeds near the lake. Their slippery legs slid through our fingers. As we let them go, she squealed, pretending to be scared. One day she ate a Popsicle that turned her … Continue reading

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My Grandma, the Pilot

When her youngest graduated from college, my grandmother decided she wanted to be a pilot. She completed ground school, but that’s as far as she went. When we grandchildren were born, she was widowed, living on a teacher’s salary in … Continue reading

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