Tag Archives: encouragement

The Creature With Two Brains!

Posted on September 30, 2024 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week When I was in high school, my science class went to see Griffith Park Observatory’s famous Planetarium Show. We leaned back and emitted a communal “Oooooo!” as the dome darkened and a giant tinkertoy projected the … Continue reading →

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Time to Shine!

Posted on September 16, 2024 by mitchteemley

My friend Luna exploring my hand. Thought for the Week A few years back, on a September day like this, I found the big Luna Moth caterpillar above (also known as a Moon Moth) listlessly inching its way along a … Continue reading →

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Celebrate Yourself!

Posted on August 19, 2024 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week It’s my 45th Journalversary! Yep, I wrote my first Journal entry forty-five years ago (in June, actually), and have continued journaling, with a few lapses, ever since. I’m a very different guy, slightly-whiter beard included, from … Continue reading →

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You Have Not Lived…

Posted on June 23, 2024 by mitchteemley
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Be Who You’re Called to Be

Posted on May 13, 2024 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week I once dated a struggling British actress. We talked about how hard it was to make it in the movie biz. She mentioned meeting a 35-year-old actor who’d just wrapped work on a “kid’s movie” at … Continue reading →

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Finding the Right Person

Posted on April 29, 2024 by mitchteemley

Source: flutie8211 Thought for the Week We spend so much of our lives waiting for “the right person.” The right person to marry. The right person to hire us for that career-making job. The right person to make it happen, … Continue reading →

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Real Fatherhood

Posted on April 8, 2024 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week During self-introductions a college student of mine once boasted that he’d fathered 11 children by 11 different women. I normally avoid judgmental statements. Not this time. “Do you support them?” I asked. “Uh, no!” he said … Continue reading →

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Why You Should Keep a Life Journal

Posted on March 25, 2024 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week “In the diary you find proof that in situations which today would seem unbearable, you lived.” ~Franz Kafka (from his personal diary) My wife and I were trying to remember the chain of events in our … Continue reading →

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Engaged!

Posted on March 18, 2024 by mitchteemley

Engaged  [inˈɡājd, enˈɡājd] Definition: A state of being firmly and continuously connected.  E.g. “A car cannot move until its gears are engaged; when they are disengaged, it ceases to move forward.” Thought for the Week My wife and I got engaged … Continue reading →

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Encourage Others!

Posted on March 16, 2024 by mitchteemley

Image source: 1 Peter 4:8 “It almost always takes someone other than yourself to show you how to believe in yourself.” ~The Wishing Map φ

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