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Pearls for Parl by StarrGazr

Of Roles, Responsibilities and Reframing the Past …

The most exciting thing about being a daughter is that of being a daughter. We are who we are.

We are defined often by the tasks with which life charges us, a reality that each moment of breathing and consciousness, action and interaction, thought and idea, imagination, shapes and reshapes.

Our life is a mixture of desires and responsibilities, each pulling at the other, neither one winning out, but each molding and altering the other.

My life as a daughter

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Eagler in Flight

Of Determination, Eagles and One’s Personal Best …

My mother was a hard worker. All her actions were founded upon a strong work ethic.

My father worked hard too. He had no choice as a farmer.

My mother held a dedication to not simply the work she did. She approached all tasks as a job to be, and done well.

The degree to which you did a job well, spoke, in her mind, to your character.

It mattered not the task, rather, our approach to complete the task and accomplish this by giving your personal best.

This personal best formed the essence of the entire individual, according to my mother.

I have adopted this belief.

I encourage

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Of Hilary Rosen, Ann Romney and The State of Women …

Reading Scott Pratt’s posts on his blog, The Writer’s Predicament, installments, if you will, of his journey on the road from writer with two thrillers published by Penguin Books to self-published author of three more, inspired me to revisit my anger and hurt with comment about Anne Romney made by CNN contributor and Democratic Political consultant, Hilary Rosen.
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“What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying: ‘Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues. And when I listen to my wife, that’s what I’m hearing.’

“Guess what,

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Injurious Actions, Political Dictators, and Near Sadist Employers…

Most often the recipients of these injurious actions and words we commit constitute that group of people closest to us, daughters, sons, mothers, wives, husbands, fathers, co-workers, professional partners and colleagues, classmates, students, employees, those subordinate, lateral and even sometimes superior in professional rank to us.

Why do we do it?

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