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“Sticks and stones can break my bones but words….? Words can do all sorts of things... Whether or not we believe the words, they do their work.” ~H.H


“If I ever get so big that I take up 2 seats on mass transit, or have to sit sideways on the single seats….tell my fat greedy ass to stop eating…You so fat you only joined facebook because you heard they put cookies on your computer:...and You so fat you walked into the Gap and filled it”

There are fat jokes that stret

You shouldn’t wait for specific months or national days to come around to practice awareness on causes that affect your health.Every calendar day should be practiced as an awareness day. Know your body and be conscious of your well being.Get a yearly physical to know whats going on with your overall health.Practice safe sex and get tested for HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases regularly. Whether you are in a monogamous relationship or not.


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Kacey Stefan, a senior at Arrowhead High School, has suffered from a rare disease this past two years. Stefan had a disease called Alcerative Colitis. It is a disease in the colon.
Alcerative Colitis is a disease that mostly teen suffer from. It is an internal disease but you suffer from it externally as well.
“It took the doctors about 6 weeks to figure out what I really had. It was probably the worst 6 weeks of my life,” says Stefan.
“Imagine yourself having a stom

Hey everyone, I've created a new blog of Wordpress and I would love it if you all took a look and gave me some feedback. I'd love to follow anyone in return and see their stories as well! I Posted the link below, hope you like it.

http://joyousdarling.wordpress.com/

Or follow me on twitter: JoyousDarling

To be on my own and to start my own business feels like I am not on my own. State of Life have helped me understand that there are many resources for me out there and learn to be productive. I started my new business and it came out to be amazing: take a look at this blog and tell me what do you think about it? www.gdiblog.brendasalcedo.ws

Good Luck for this New Year!

Transform Yourself (Change)

There are many conditions that should be changed in our lives such as hunger and abuse. I would like to help make a transformation in those areas of life. Before heading to help change these things I would like to changes things about me. One of my 2013 goals is to become more motivated to do stuff I set my mind to such as working out or eating healthy. Also look at things in a more positive way. With these changes I will become emotionally and physically

XYZ Conference Hall,Newyork:
~~~Hall echoes with the frequency of applauds~~~

"Guess the title!", the first novel by Sneha Nagendran, is a hurricane of book, whirling almost around all the streets of India and beyond, capturing souls within its twists, carrying them high in the air, rattling their very bones until their secrets and shameful pasts, their moments of kindness and generosity, pour onto the ground below

I’m just an ordinary man in love with and loved by an extraordinary God…seeking to love God, love people & follow Jesus.

I’m sharing God’s love through service, work, love, irreverence, compassion, wild hope and reckless abandon as well writing, poetry, healing, community building, servant leadership, prayer, play, and so much more!

I was a “pained soul” but, thanks be to God, I am now a “PainTed Soul” living deeply, soulfully, deliciously, simply & contemplatively. In Au

As I sit here, I think, think, and think some more about life. Life is a crazy thing that you have to figure out on your own. There is not a book to tell how to live it. I often find myself petrified that I will fail at living life, and that I will never find my worth. The sense of not being worth something eats at me. It makes me feel like hope is just a word and nothing to live by. The feeling that days do not get brighter and nights just keep getting darker creep in and out of my mind. I ha

So I’ve been living in Columbia, MD for a little over two months now and I still don’t have any friends.

I have work people that I am slightly social with, and the only two editors that I could even think to consider “friends” just transitioned from nightside to dayside so it will be months before I speak to them again. Did I mention that they are also from the Ferndale, WA office? So by speak, I mean IM.

I have some friends (sort of friends?) from college so live nearby,

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