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GREAT LISTENER “Describe someone you admire as a great listener,” was the instruction given in a book that I am currently reading. Improving my listening skills has been a quest of mine for many years and I would like to think that I have worked my way into being a pretty good one. But the question was not addressed to my listening skills. The word, “great,” at first made it a bit difficult to answer the request.   People who talk a lot are generally not great listeners – my

PARABLE OF THE ORCHID Sitting across from my favorite perch on the porch, is a plant with thick leathery, slightly scarred, gently curved...

YOU CAN HAVE IT In April, my family (biological and chosen) attended the wedding of two beloved chosen family members. It was the best...