People often talk of having a niche, but for a long time I wasn't sure I had one. I write about so many topics and one doesn't seem to have much in common with the next.
Then someone said something that finally made it all click. They said we as humans exist on a spectrum.
So many see the world in terms of black and white, and often black versus white. Some would dearly love to see the world reduced to nothing but black and white, us versus them, right versus wrong. Eventually they would reduce the world to one single color, the color of their choosing.
What then, when the world is reduced to only shades of gray. When everyone looks, thinks, talks, and acts exactly the same. We all share the same beliefs, the same ideas, the same thoughts and the same emotions. The world becomes flat, and dull, and gray.
They see security in sameness, but they are blind to the beauty in difference. I have always been different, though some do not put it as kindly as that. I'm a strange girl, always have been, and most likely always will be.
Because I've always felt like I was on the outside looking in, I've spent a great deal of time watching those who are "normal." Through those observations I have come to see that the world does not exist as a black and white entity, but as a spectrum.
The full spectrum of humanity fascinates me. The differences in beliefs, cultures, appearances. The power of a persons environment to shape their who being. Humans are such complex and amazing creatures. Yet with all of the obvious differences, we are still more same than different.
So I guess I already had a niche, it just took me a long time to name it.
The human spectrum.
Life in contrast
Have you ever honestly tried to understand another person and why they choose to live the way they do? It is something I do every single day. I try to put all preconceived notions aside, and research a topic with an open mind.
As a result I often present portraits of contrast... here are a few of them...
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Do it Anyway ~ The Paradoxical Commandments
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Do you ever get tired of doing the right thing, only to get kicked in the teeth? Does it sometimes seem like you are the only one who is fighting for your cause? Does it every seem like everyone around you is only looking out for number one? Do it...
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The Sociopath Next Door
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Dahmer, Bundy, Gacy. The very names have the power to send chills down our spines. These are the people of nightmares and horror movies, but thankfully they are relatively rare in real life. They are at the extreme end of the spectrum of sociopathi...
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Profile of a school shooter
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Shortly after the Virginia Tech massacre I began research for a novel about a school shooting. The idea had been with me since Columbine, but I did not know exactly how I was going to approach it for many years, I didn't know if I could do the to...
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Ugly Dogs Need Love Too!
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Behold the Roo! I decided to take over the keyboard today to talk to you about the plight of ugly dogs everywhere. I am fully qualified to speak on this topic because upon meeting me, most people exclaim "That is the ugliest dog I've ever seen." I'm...
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The Empath Next Door
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The popular book "The Sociopath Next Door" paints a detailed picture of sociopaths in society. The inspiration for that lens actually came from this one. Most people are familiar with sociopaths, but is it possible that they have an opposite number?...
Making positive changes in your life
Who couldn't use some change in their life? Some of us only seek small changes in our lives, but some of us need to make a few more changes than others. We all have the power to make positive changes in our lives, sometimes we just need a direction.
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The Best Self-Help Books Ever
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I am an avid reader, I will read anything if it will hold still long enough. I've read a lot of self help, some of it actually did help but a lot of it just left me wanting more information. They tend to go into the hows and the whys but leave you...
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Changing Your Life And Everyone In It
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Changing your life is a monumental task. There are so many things that we would like to change, but change requires stepping out of our comfort zones and into areas unknown. Wouldn't it be great if we could find a simple road map to changing our lif...
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The Cure for Doormat Disease
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Many people suffer from doormat disease, and they don't even know it. Doormat disease is a rarely fatal but often painful condition where the spine of a person is replaced by a welcome mat. Doormat disease is often misdiagnosed, or overlooked entire...
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Learning How To Live With Yourself
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"My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge." ~ Franki...
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Passive - Aggressive - Assertive
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" All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." -Article 1 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Hum...
Meeting in the Middle
We are familiar with the concept of good and evil, that positive exists on one end of the line and negative exists on the other.
Now it is easy to see this example because most people believe in some form of positive and negative.
Many people see this line as an either/or concept, those that are different from themselves exist on the negative end of the spectrum, and those who are the same as being on the positive end.
The human spectrum is far wider... Each of us does not belong to one spectrum but many, and the poles aren't necessarily good or evil just opposites.
Democrat ---------- Republican
Religious ---------- Secular
Sociopath ---------- Empath
Overeater ---------- Anorexic
Pro-life ---------- Pro-choice
It can apply to just about any trait we possess. Most of us do not exist on the extreme ends of the spectrum, but we do exist somewhere on the scale. Some towards the middle, some leaning left or right.
Now some believe it is the middle we should avoid, that if we do not lean one way we should lean the other.
I disagree, I say in most cases the middle should be our goal.
Philosophy
I am not really a philosopher, but I do love trying to figure out how things work. The human mind, sociology, humanity as a whole. Some of the theories presented here are mine, some belong to others.
I truly hope they give you some food for thought, and as always feel free to disagree... any theory should always be open to change once new information is brought in.
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Do it Anyway ~ The Paradoxical Commandments
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Do you ever get tired of doing the right thing, only to get kicked in the teeth? Does it sometimes seem like you are the only one who is fighting for your cause? Does it every seem like everyone around you is only looking out for number one? Do it...
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Boshemia's Bohemia: Who am I?
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"None of us really changes over time; we only become more fully what we are." ~ Lestat Thank you for stopping by my little home on Squidoo. You'll find me at various places across the net writing articles, fiction, and whatever else catches my fancy...
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Desiderata - The universe always unfolds as it should
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Desiderata is a poem written in 1927 by Max Ehrmann. The word desiderata is Latin for "desired things." This poem became popular with the counter-culture (aka hippies) in the early 70's. I grew up reading this poem almost daily, a copy of it hung on...
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The Crayon Wars - Short Story
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An empty box of crayons lay forgotten upon the table, this my friends is the beginning of our little fable...
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No bad words, only bad intentions
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George Carlin said "There are no bad words, only bad intentions." I fully agree with him. The only reason a word is bad, is because we as humans made it bad. It is just a collection of sounds, we are the ones who gave those sounds specific meanings....
Advocacy
I am a trained victims advocate, and youth group leader. I am no longer able to lead a youth group because of my health problems, but I still advocate for youth and victims in our community.
Becoming an advocate rounded out my life, bringing me full circle from victim to thriver. I truly hope that everyone can someday look at their lives and see themselves not as a victim, but as a survivor and eventually a thriver.
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Making Peace With Your Past
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I remember the first time I watched Titanic, it came to the part where they are floating in the icy ocean and she realizes Jack is dead. She lets go of his hand and he sinks into the dark water, and she goes on with her life. I was so disappointed i...
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Victim, Survivor, Thriver
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Abuse and recovery is a very personal topic for me for many reasons, as is advocacy it is also a passion that drives me to help others escape their own abuse and find true happiness in this life.. The cycle of abuse in my family goes back to at leas...
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What love is NOT - Abuse
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If you ask 100 people what love is, you will get 100 different answers. Love means so many different things, love is defined by who we are, where we come from and what we were raised to believe. It comes from ourselves, our families, our culture. I...
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The San Miguel Resource Center
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The San Miguel Resource Center is a victims advocacy center based in Telluride, Colorado. They serve the areas of Telluride, Norwood, Nucla, Naturita, and Paradox. Out of the 5000 people in their service area, statistics show that one-third of the f...
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Maslow's Hierarchy Revisited
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What motivates you? Do motivations change? If something motivated you yesterday, will it still motivate you today? According to psychologist Abraham Maslow, human motivation isn't really as complex as most people think it is. Maslow believed that...
The Human Spectrum
So, I write about many things. I talk of the journey from victim to thriver, the journey from doormat to lobster, I talk about raising healthy kids, and creating healthy minds. I talk about many things, but do I have a niche?
Introducing the human spectrum...
It doesn't pay a lot, I'm nothing more than a starving artist. I could give up and turn towards affiliate sales, or network marketing. There is nothing wrong with those things, but they just aren't where my passion lies.
My passion lies in examining that human spectrum, in learning as much as I can about it. I want to see people clearly, unhampered but judgment or prejudice. I don't want to think I know them, I want to know them.
I want to spend my whole life helping one person understand another. I want to connect them, I want them to see that the person they saw as so different from themselves really wasn't all that different after all.
I don't guess I'll ever make a lot of money doing it, but I'm not doing it for money. I'm doing it to help others see and understand the human spectrum. Hopefully when someone walks away from a conversation with me, or even reading my writing, hopefully they walk away with something they didn't have before.
I don't care what as long as it was something. I hope they laughed, they cried, they felt, I hope they connected. If they didn't, then I have failed but I can always try again.
Parenting
Parenting is just one of my many passions. My children are the most important contribution I will ever make to this world, everything else pales in comparison. I take my job very seriously, and strive everyday to make this world a better place and teach my children the same.
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Talking to kids about sex
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It isn't exactly the most comfortable topic for any parent to discuss with their child, but like it or not, your teenager is going to be talking about it with or without you. They will be seeing it on television, hearing it in music, and most of all...
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Parenting: Gifts That Last a Lifetime
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One of the greatest joys of parenting is seeing the light in our child's eyes when they open up that perfect gift. The one we spent months planning, weeks searching for, or found at just the right time. The one we were almost as excited to give them...
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Parents Passion - Parenting Teens
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Parenting is passion. From the first time you see their tiny fingers and toes, through each stage of their development, you grow with them. What worked for an infant, no longer works with a toddler, and then they reach school age and you begin to lea...
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Peace-centered parenting, Non-violent children
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Parenting is an adventure that none of us really understands fully before we enter into it, and it doesn't get any better as it goes. Just about the time you have one of your child's phases figured out, they enter into a new one. People always say t...
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Coparenting after Divorce
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When we got married, we certainly didn't plan on getting divorced, but sadly divorce can happen to the best of us. Sometimes two people just can't get along no matter how hard they try. 40% - 50% of all first marriages end in divorce. If they were u...
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Haim G. Ginott - Child Psychologist
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Dr. Haim G Ginott is considered one of the most influential child psychologists of all time. For a time it seemed that experts on child rearing were either advocating setting firm boundaries with your child, or parenting with compassion and understan...
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Strange Parenting Tales Fact or Fiction?
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No two parenting experiences are alike, not even within the same home. Each parent is different, each child is different, each story is different. We all have our own parenting stories, the things that make our experience unique. There are a lot of...
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Tips from Between Parent and Child
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"Between Parent and Child" is a book written by Dr. Haim G Ginott more than thirty-five years ago. The principles taught by Ginott have formed the basis of parenting programs around the world. Focusing on empathy and discipline at the same time, he...
Finding Wholeness
There are those in this life who are normal, and then there are the rest of us. Whether we suffered abusive childhoods or other violent relationships. Whether we have lives with alcoholism, or sexual abuse.
We are not broken, we just learned some unhealthy patterns in our lives and carried them into adulthood. It is up to us now to change those patterns, to go on and live the happy, healthy life we all deserve.
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The Cure for Doormat Disease
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Many people suffer from doormat disease, and they don't even know it. Doormat disease is a rarely fatal but often painful condition where the spine of a person is replaced by a welcome mat. Doormat disease is often misdiagnosed, or overlooked entire...
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Passive - Aggressive - Assertive
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" All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." -Article 1 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Hum...
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Codependency the people addiction
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Many people have heard the term codependency but aren't quite sure what it is, even if they have been told they suffer from it. First identified in the 1960's as "dysfunctional communication patterns" in families where one or more...
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Victim, Survivor, Thriver
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Abuse and recovery is a very personal topic for me for many reasons, as is advocacy it is also a passion that drives me to help others escape their own abuse and find true happiness in this life.. The cycle of abuse in my family goes back to at leas...
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Making Peace With Your Past
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I remember the first time I watched Titanic, it came to the part where they are floating in the icy ocean and she realizes Jack is dead. She lets go of his hand and he sinks into the dark water, and she goes on with her life. I was so disappointed i...
My Story
It isn't always easy sharing your personal story, but it is an important part of the healing process. Not just for yourself, but for others who may be going through similar things. Just taking the time to let others know they aren't alone, and offer them a glimmer of hope it worth it.
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The day I died - here for the experience
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In February of 1991 I gave up on life. I sat on the living room sofa with the contents of every pill bottle in the house spread out before me. I took them by the handful, and washed them down with a bottle of tequila. I was 19. I had it planned so...
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A Survivor Story
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Victim, survivor, thriver... If you have read any amount of my writing at all, you've no doubt heard me use that phrase a few times. It might not mean much to you, but for me that phrase is magical. It means overcoming so many things in life, it mea...
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Survivors
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If you haven't read part 1 of this series, you might want to catch up a little first. Life after Fibromyalgia The last thing I ever wanted to be was one of those people with a bunch of letters defining who they are and what they can do. Though I...
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Life After Fibromyalgia
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The last thing I ever wanted to be was one of those people with a bunch of letters defining who they are and what they can do. Though I did always think PhD had a nice ring to it, instead at the age of 32 I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia (FMS), Chro...
Secret to Life
If there is a secret to life, in my opinion it is balance. It is avoiding extremes as much as possible. When our lives are balanced, we are at peace with ourselves and with others, it is only when that balance is thrown off that our life spins out of control.
It has been said that all things in moderation are good, it is only in the excess that problems begin.
A small amount of anger is actually a healthy thing, it tells us that something is wrong emotionally and needs to be addressed just as physical pain signals physical problems. It is only when we let that anger get out of control, when we allow it to harm others that anger becomes a bad thing.
A small amount of alcohol now and then is a good thing, it has even been proven medically beneficial. When alcohol moves over into excess, it becomes a problem. It destroys relationships, families, lives. It leaves scars not just on the user, but on everyone the user has a relationship with.
There will always be a certain balance to life. If you seek power you must also accept responsibility. If you seek rewards in life, you must first do the work to gain them. If you seek to be taken seriously you must also take others seriously.
The only way to truly attain that balance in life is to stay somewhere in the middle of the human spectrum, to see others as neither above, nor below yourself. All humans were created equal, but equality is only good if you use it. You must apply it to both yourself and others.
There are a lot of miserable people in this world, and the source of most misery lies in not maintaining balance in some area of their life. One of the most miserable people I know spends all of their time trying to control others. They don't ask, they don't beg, they just insist that their demands be met.
Their misery is apparent to anyone who comes across them, but it really isn't apparent to them. If they just attained some balance in life, if they just offered their respect to others instead of demanding it for themselves people would actually want to meet in the middle.
Fact Sheets
As a result of my research I tend to collect facts and figures, some of them have a place in my lenses, others really don't have a place anywhere and earned their own lens.
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Profile of a school shooter
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Shortly after the Virginia Tech massacre I began research for a novel about a school shooting. The idea had been with me since Columbine, but I did not know exactly how I was going to approach it for many years, I didn't know if I could do the to...
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Columbine Survivors 10 years later
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April 20, 2009 marked the tenth memorial of the Columbine massacre. Some call it an anniversary, but that word suggests celebration, and the events at Columbine leave little to celebrate. While most remember the events that day, those who lost their...
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RMS Titanic - The facts and the myths
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It has been almost 100 years since the Titanic sank to its icy depths in the Atlantic, taking over 1500 souls with her. The fascination with the ship of dreams began long before the actual launch, and continues today. The Titanic left an indelible...
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Celebrity Domestic Violence - Chris Brown and Rihanna
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When we hear the term domestic violence we often picture the stereotypical battered housewife, locked away in a house somewhere out of the public eye. Yet abuse can happen to anyone anywhere no matter what the circumstances. It happens to men and wo...
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Strange Parenting Tales Fact or Fiction?
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No two parenting experiences are alike, not even within the same home. Each parent is different, each child is different, each story is different. We all have our own parenting stories, the things that make our experience unique. There are a lot of...
Shared Experience
Part of the human spectrum is the process of shared experience. Nothing brings out emotions in us like a shared experience that causes emotional involvement. Tragedy and triumph.
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John Hughes - Growing up 80's
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A few years ago I was at the mall and pulled a shirt off the rack, a shirt that was identical to one I would have worn in my youth. I was marveling at the pink and black athletic inspired top when a young girl next to me said "I just love the 80's, d...
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Columbine Survivors 10 years later
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April 20, 2009 marked the tenth memorial of the Columbine massacre. Some call it an anniversary, but that word suggests celebration, and the events at Columbine leave little to celebrate. While most remember the events that day, those who lost their...
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Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition
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On June 4, 2005 my oldest daughter and I had the opportunity to attend Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada. The experience was awe-inspiring, and very emotional for both of us. So realistic that you find yourself holding your bre...
Laugh A litte
Humor is my favorite spice of life, I love making people laugh. I've done so many serious lenses, but some of my favorites (and most popular) lenses are the ones that were designed just to tickle your funny bone.
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Nucla, Colorado - Hippies, Uranium and Prairie dogs Oh MY!
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Nucla, Colorado is located in southwestern Colorado, about 100 miles from the Four Corners Monument. (The junction of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah) In fact Nucla is about 100 miles from anywhere most people have heard of, except for Tellur...
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The REAL "Secret" to success
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(that other "Secret" is mere childs play compared to this one!) Welcome If you find yourself irritated, aggravated, and annoyed with the world around you, there is hope! A revolutionary new program based on ancient secrets is here to help you gain...
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The half-baked gourmet
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When we were asked to share our favorite recipes recently, my heart stopped in my chest. Women are supposed to be good cooks, they are supposed to instinctively know what goes where and when. They are supposed to open up a recipe book, flip to the...
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Things they never told you - Manly Men
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I married a testosterone based life form, you know the kind, their blood is one part sweat and one part motor oil. When someone mentions power tools his eyes light up, the rev of a motor no matter how small gets his heart pumping, but the bigger the...
Beware the -ism's
"Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me." ~ Ferris Bueller
I long to see a day where we experience true peace in this world, as unrealistic as that may be. The only way we will ever accomplish peace either within ourselves, or with the rest of the world is to find a way to meet in the middle.
Extreme points of view become -isms and -isms divide people. Racism, sexism, elitism. When one point of view becomes so dominant in a persons mind that it excludes all others -isms happen, and when -ism happens all hopes for peace are destroyed.
We will never find peace insisting that there is only one way to do things. I may not be able to find peace in the world we live in, but I can find peace in my heart. I can bring peace to my home, to my children, to my friends. I can even bring a small bit of peace to a stranger.
I can compliment a waitress in a restaurant, I can leave her with a bit of peace in her day. It may mean nothing to her or she may remember it years later. No matter, I do it because bringing peace and balance to others brings me peace and balance.
Because of the way I view the human spectrum, I just can't see people as being above or beneath me, I see all of us as equal. That applies to my best friend and worst enemy. I see them as no less deserving of respect than anyone else on earth.
I can appreciate that we are at different places in our own human spectrum, what I see as wrong they may see as right... we may disagree on one thing or another, but it doesn't matter. We are still more same than different, be it friend or be it enemy.
Someone is not lesser than us just because we have differences, and never will be. Maybe I'm a dreamer for believing that, maybe I'm even crazy but I'm willing to take that chance.
The human spectrum is too beautiful to miss, it is what makes life worth living. That fact that you and I are different is what adds color to the world, the fact that you and I are the same is what adds balance. All across that spectrum, life is beautiful.
Celebrity Profiles
I've never had much interest in popular media, I don't really care what Paris Hilton is up to this week, or who just went into rehab for the third time.
The people that interest me are those who have strong personalities, who instead of conforming take their own path in life. I love those who march to a beat of a different drummer!
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Artists, Poets, Writers and more - The Bohemian Revolution
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What is a Bohemian? The term Bohemian originally came from the French, stemming from a belief that Gypsy's originated in Bohemia. It was first used in the nineteenth century to describe those who lived nontraditional lifestyles. Traditionally Bohem...
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Perfect Fictional Character - Scarlett O'Hara
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"There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, fo...
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Why I must meet Eddie Izzard before I die!
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I have always been a huge fan of stand-up comedy. About five years ago I caught a stand up that blew my mind. Life has not been the same since. He doesn't just make you laugh, he challenges you to think at the same time. According to my calculations...
Stories on Film
I love a good story, be it between the covers of a book or on film. Films are a great tool for understanding the world around us, and no matter how the story is told... each presents a lesson.
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Zeitgeist - The Movie Fact or Fiction?
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The word zeitgeist describes the intellectual, cultural, ethical and political climate, ambience and morals of an era or also a trend. If you haven't yet heard of Zeitgeist, you will, just give it time. You can watch it free here ZeitgeistMovie....
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"The Fall" Movie Review; A Childs Mind
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If we could see inside of a child's mind, what exactly would we see? The human mind is fascinating, none so vibrant and mystical as the mind of a child. This is the reason I fell in love with a young girl named Alexandria right away. My youngest in...
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Hamlet 2: A Parody of a Tragedy
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Failed actor turned drama teacher Dana Marschz is a clueless but lovable character, dedicated to his love of acting despite an obvious lack of talent. When he discovers his beloved Drama class is about to be canceled due to budget cuts, he and his...
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RENT - No Day but Today
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Broadway's RENT is a rock opera written by Jonathan Larson. Based on the opera "La Boheme," it is set in the East Village. Rent is about struggling to pay the rent, but it is about so much more. The word rent also means "torn apart" true to the seco...
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Movies That Mess With Your Mind
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When it comes to filling out that section on forms where I am supposed to tell people what my favorite movies are, I am always at a loss. I am a story junkie, it doesn't matter if the story comes to me neatly printed between two covers, or from...
Freaks and Geeks
You call me a freak like it's a bad thing... I will never quite understand why people ask me why I can't just be normal, now where is the fun in that?
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Freaks Like Us Halloween FUN Everyday!
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You can keep your jeans and boring old T-shirts, I'll take a costume any day. Perhaps it comes from being born just three days before Halloween, but Halloween has always been my favorite day of the year. My oldest daughters birthday is just a day b...
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The half-baked gourmet
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When we were asked to share our favorite recipes recently, my heart stopped in my chest. Women are supposed to be good cooks, they are supposed to instinctively know what goes where and when. They are supposed to open up a recipe book, flip to the...
Writing
I've been a writer my whole life, I have always been fascinated with the power of the written word. When things are quiet, and I am alone I can fall into this flow that leaves me feeling calm and peaceful. I make every attempt to use my own writing in my lenses whenever possible, I sometimes quote others but I feel that anybody can quote page after page of wikipedia, but in order to call myself a writer my words should be my own.
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Perfect Fictional Character - Scarlett O'Hara
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"There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, fo...
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The Crayon Wars - Short Story
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An empty box of crayons lay forgotten upon the table, this my friends is the beginning of our little fable...
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Harm None - a novel on Squidoo
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I began this novel in November 2008 for my 6th NaNoWriMo, but as I wrote it I realized it was growing so quickly that it was getting away from me. So I decided rather than scale it back, I needed to devote more time and energy to it that a one month...
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Top 10 Writing Influences
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We all have influences in our life, people who helped us become the person we are today. As a writer I have many, some famous the world wide and some only famous to me. I am and always have been an avid reader, though I prefer absurdist fiction I wi...
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Writer's Toolbox: Tools of the trade
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There are many things that go into a writers tool box, but the most important tool of all is that which they hold inside of them. Within your imagination are the keys to any number of doors, doors that lead to fantastic places, untold adventures, fa...
On a personal note
Some lenses are more personal than others, all of my lenses have a personal story or two but I've done my fair share of personal lenses about who I am, where I live and those I love.
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Grandma's Hands
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Grandma, granny, grammy, nana. It doesn't matter what you call her, a grandmother is a special kind of mother. She's a mother with the rough edges smoothed out. A Grandmother's temper is slow, her hugs are quick, and her rules are always flexible. I...
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Ugly Dogs Need Love Too!
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Behold the Roo! I decided to take over the keyboard today to talk to you about the plight of ugly dogs everywhere. I am fully qualified to speak on this topic because upon meeting me, most people exclaim "That is the ugliest dog I've ever seen." I'm...
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Nucla, Colorado - Hippies, Uranium and Prairie dogs Oh MY!
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Nucla, Colorado is located in southwestern Colorado, about 100 miles from the Four Corners Monument. (The junction of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah) In fact Nucla is about 100 miles from anywhere most people have heard of, except for Tellur...
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Things they never told you - Manly Men
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I married a testosterone based life form, you know the kind, their blood is one part sweat and one part motor oil. When someone mentions power tools his eyes light up, the rev of a motor no matter how small gets his heart pumping, but the bigger the...
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Boshemia's Bohemia: Who am I?
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"None of us really changes over time; we only become more fully what we are." ~ Lestat Thank you for stopping by my little home on Squidoo. You'll find me at various places across the net writing articles, fiction, and whatever else catches my fancy...
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My Heirloom Dolls
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It's no secret that I'm a child trapped in an adults body much of the time. Take me through the toy department of any store and you will quickly see what I mean. I still love toys in all ways, shapes, and forms. As a child, it wasn't un...
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Happy Birthday My Love
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August 2009, my husband has been on this planet for thirty-three years, he's been a part of mine and my children's life for nearly eight years now. As I pondered what to get him for this very special birthday I thought of many things I would...
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Planning a Celtic Handfasting
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Many people are opting for non-traditional weddings, something that expresses the couples commitment in a new way, something that is as individual as the people involved, or something just a little different. If you are one of these people a Celtic...
Share your thoughts on the human spectrum...
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- kimmanleyort kimmanleyort Oct 26, 2009 @ 8:11 am
- What a great collection! I have a lot of the same interests as you and have found your lenses to be fascinating. Love the way that you were able to define your niche as "the human spectrum" especially after looking at what you like to write about.
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- Ramkitten Ramkitten Jun 5, 2009 @ 12:50 pm
- Hi there. I'm going to add this to my Squidoo Lenses That Don't Sell A Thing under the Philosophical Lenses category. I've been looking for another one for that group. Then I want to look through some of these lenses I've never seen before. :)
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- spirituality spirituality Jun 5, 2009 @ 2:18 am
- Great lensography - blessed by a squidangel :)
Many of these lenses fit one or both of these groups:
http://www.squidoo.com/groups/consciousness
http://www.squidoo.com/groups/spiritual-growth
You're invited to submit those you think fit - I will probably reject a few, but that will just be me being specific about the niche. I'd rather you submitted too many, than too few. They're all great.
The Sugar Patch
I believe in the power of words, both written and spoken. Simple words have changed people, countries, and the world when used effectively. They plant seeds in the minds of others that when nurtured, can become almost anything.
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