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No One Buys Freedom Without Paying For It With Bravery Noah benShea “To think that men and women are born free took people who were prepared to brave these thoughts.” – Noah It is rare if a day goes by and I don’t receive a piece of mail or electronic mail promising me financial freedom. [...]
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LIFE IS A CAMPSITE, BRING THE MARSHMALLOWS “Only God owns; the rest of us rent.” – Noah benShea As part of my daily routine I walk in the morning through a state campsite on the bluffs overlooking the ocean near my home. My mind and spirit ride the breeze with the gulls as I say [...]
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THE HABIT OF HABITS Noah benShea They used to call the clothing that nuns wore “habits.” Perhaps they still do. Nevertheless, all of us are certainly religious about our habits or the requirement for habits. All of us are in the habit of habits. And it got me scratching my head about this, which remarkably [...]
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Loss and Losing Pain by Noah benShea All of us experience loss in our lives. But our experience of that experience is different for all of us. And is as different as all of us. Unfortunately for many of us if we’re not in pain when we’re in loss we question our integrity with loss. [...]
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Play The Part Not The Result by Noah benShea A few years back when the film “Titanic” was being sold to us via every media and beginning to annoy almost everyone some street vendor in New York made up ten thousand t-shirts that sold out in one day. The t-shirt read: “It sank. Get over [...]
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LIGHT A CANDLE BY BEING ONE “Faith burns brightest when it is a shared light.” Great things are more often discovered than invented. If we want to make something great of our lives it may involve less of our making and more of our waking up and seeing. When I was a kid, I used [...]
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When so many of us still have Halloween candy stuck between our teeth, here’s something by Noah that you might want to chew on. Enjoy….. Eat An Abba Zabba Bar by Noah benShea Ladies and gentlemen, a moment of your time because moments are all we have. “A man opened the bottom drawer of his [...]
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At some point in time in each of our lives we have all felt there was some flaw in how we look. But you don’t need medical insurance or a big wallet or plastic surgery to make yourself more attractive. You do need to be honest, loving, and willing to make today a new day. [...]
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My son’s pickup truck is filthy. Someone at the high school parking lot has taken their finger and written “WASH ME” in the dusty back window. Another student adviser has answered this suggestion by scribbling an altogether different four-letter suggestion in the back window. My son resides with me but lives in the province of [...]
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The Eroticism Of Modesty I do much of my serious reading while I’m waiting in checkout lines at the supermarket. I find that the point-of-purchase publications set up to entice the consumer as they wait in these lines are like social-dipsticks. Whether they are magazines for middle-aged women, or men who are feeling a little [...]
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“All transformation begins with self-transformation; all self-transformation begins with self-witnessing.” THE PATH TO JUSTICE IS THROUGH MERCY A clergyman was walking down the street and saw a parishioner wave as he rushed by. “Where are you going in such a hurry?” asked the man of the cloth. “Excuse me Reverend,” said the fellow, “but I’ve [...]
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Why Do You Pray? Someone once asked me if I pray because it makes sense. And I said, “No, I don’t pray because it makes sense. I pray because my life doesn’t make sense without prayer.” I don’t pray to bring God down to earth but to raise myself up and to keep going when [...]
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The Rose and The Sailor by Noah benShea What we’re looking forward to is not always what we get to see. Sometimes things don’t work out the way we expect. Sometimes what we think is perfect gets broken and as a result gets better. Though disappointment is often the reward for anticipation, sadness can be [...]
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Quote: To go fishing for your passion you have to troll with your heart. FINDING YOUR PASSION “The time that we have for our use every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, the passions we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains.” —Marcel Proust I have a friend who [...]
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Noah Quote: “For a man to become a father he first must become a man.” A LETTER TO DAD FROM A LONG WAY AWAY “It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.” —Anne Sexton Dear Dad, I know that where you are, letters are a pretty passé way of [...]
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WHEN YOU ARE, I AM What you are about to read is a prayer, a meditation, and guardian in tough times, across time, and in the moment. This is something to be whispered to your children before bedtime and for them to whisper to their children and their children’s children. This is a promise to [...]
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1. Being broke is not the same as being broken, losing money is not the same as being lost, and finding your balance is not something you can do on a balance sheet. 2. Don’t confuse having less with being less, having more with being more, or what you have with who you are. 3. [...]
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Noah benShea National Public Television Special – Airing Now We are happy to announce the initial list of Public Stations receiving the Noah benShea National Public Television Special. *Be sure to check to with your local listings for specific dates and times, and if you don’t see any information call your local station. ARKA-Conway AR [...]
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The Emmy Awards were on television the other night. It was television making television of itself. And reminding us we were interested.
And of course we were.
Of course we are.
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“Here Men from The Planet Earth First
Set Foot upon The Moon We Came in
Peace for All Mankind.”
—Plaque left behind on the moon’s surface
by the crew of Apollo 11
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There is an old joke that asks: “How can you spot a rich guy in the South?”
Answer: “He’s got TWO cars jacked up on the front lawn.”
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Dear Dad, I know that where you are, letters are a pretty passé way of communicating. But from where I am, a letter is still a pretty good way of communicating. Even if it’s with myself. So indulge me by listening to what I need to hear. Certainly you taught me that listening to what your children need to hear is a big part of being a father.
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