Posted on April 1, 2009 by Shiny Things
A long time ago, there was a forum where friends would post random bits of hard-earned wisdom, motivational quotes, rants about things they couldn’t do anything about, hope, sadness, and all the colors in between.
One of the more engaging and humorous activities was to answer “What type of animal would you be?”
Here are some of [...]
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Posted on February 4, 2009 by Shiny Things
Echoes from past postings. I like to pull conversations and words up from some of the past postings on another website, where I had some fundamentally simple concept THWACK me on the forehead until I said, “Ohhhh….” and a lightbulb went off. An epiphany, if you will.
(in response to some much needed advice [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2009 by Shiny Things
**UPDATE Thur, Jan 29th**
Ok, so I RePosted this today and when I opened my homepage this afternoon, this was the ’scope for TODAY:
You may go on a wild roller coaster ride today as your self-esteem soars one moment and then crashes the next, only to climb the next incline with grace. It’s hard to find [...]
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Posted on December 12, 2008 by Shiny Things
From Angie’s Quote of the Day:
I love life…Yeah, I’m sad, but at the same time, I’m really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It’s like…It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really [...]
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Posted on August 11, 2008 by Shiny Things
Re-Post:
Posted on July 23, 2006 by Shiny Things
Oceans
I love being here.
I love the ocean, no matter how many times I’ve been to it.
I love the things that surround it-the breezes, the salty smell, the shinyness,
the constant movement of the water, the waves’ thunder, watching storms across the horizon, the feel of the sand [...]
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