Tag: love
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Spring into Settings, #15. 2025
Happy First Day of Spring, Creatives! The sun is shining. But it’s 46 degrees outside. That’s more than sweater weather for me. I wish I was more outdoorsy but I’m not. I’m a true-blue creature of air-conditioned comfort. I do enjoy my screened lanai. Three-walls and a screen in between work for me. I can…
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Dear Creative Valentine,
Keep doing the work you love.Seek others out to show love.Live like you know you are loved.Because you are indeed crazy loved. Have a Happy Valentine’s Day! With love, Leah Sources: Colossians 3:23, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, John 13:34-35, John 3:16
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Where Will Love Take You? #10. 2025
Dear Creatives, Happy Love Week! This week, many of us will celebrate the virtues of love with heart-shaped candies, bouquets of roses, greeting cards, and candlelight dinners. While this is a tradition, I trust that many of us celebrate love all year, thinking of wonderful ways to express our affection for those we care about…
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Update on Title IX, and Loving Life over Politics
I hope this message finds you well! Can you believe how quickly this month has zipped by? It feels like our world has morphed into a gripping serial drama. Perhaps it’s always been this way. Only now I’m finally old enough to take it more seriously and to grasp the nuances that once eluded me.…
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BE FRIENDLY
Octavia E. Butler, a Black woman, best known for being “the first” science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship wrote an incredible quote about friendship. It reads: “Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into…
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LOVING YOU IS GOOD FOR US
I am a firm believer that LOVE should start at home. I think so many family dysfunctions (and I had them, too) could have been aborted if children had grown up having good loving parents as role models. I believe that is why television had a more positive effect in the past, regardless of imagery…
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BLACK (EXCELLENCE) HISTORY AND LOVE MONTH: A little ditty about Mac and LJ
My Black American history most intimately begins with these two – Willie Mac Lonon and Lonnye Jenkins Lonon– my grandparents. I am blessed to have known them both (my grandfather died when I was seven, my grandmother lived to see me graduate college), and I lived with them for a while when my mother was…
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WISHING YOU A HAPPY THANKSGIVING WITH A WARNING
The holidays are meant to be holy days. Days of peaceful contemplation, raucous fun with family (fun is holy, y’all), a time to start new traditions, and a moment to reflect on the past. “Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in everything; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18…
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TOUGH LOVE
“Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who…
