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My Top Ten Inspirational People

Gwendolyn Cole-World's best Grandmother :) World's best mother & friend :)  I've always believed that inspiration may be found all around. What better way to close out 2010 than by sharing my top ten inspirational persons. 1. Jesus 2. Yvonne Cole 3. Gwendolyn Cole 4. Rosa Parks 5. Oprah Winfrey 6. Ghandi 7 Julia Child 8. Anne Frank 9. Mark Zuckerberg 10. Helen Keller ~Live Life, Love God, One Encounter at a Time~

On the Bus: Another Dream

  Last night I had another very unusual dream. I must have had several dreams but the last one is the one that rang most vividly in my mind. I dreamt that I was on a big jutc-like bus...one of those that have the big vent like openings in the roof. Well all of a sudden we ended up on a narrow road that had a precipice on one side and rock wall on the other side...there was no protection at the side of the road and we had a clear view of vast rock and river. I remember having this feeling of uneasy which would soon escalate as we soon discovered that we had no business on that road. We some how got word of the fact that we were driving on train tracks that were once not operational, but apparently there was a train due to be coming down the tracks at that time and the train was coming fast with no braking mechanism. The driver was however confident that there was an enclave coming up on the road where the road would widen giving him opportunity to pull off to the side of the road until

The Secret

Sometime ago I encountered the Secret by way of my little sister, whose book club was considering it for a group read. I was like, what is this secret all about? She couldn't explain the secret, all she could say was that she heard that good things started to happen to people after they read it. I thought, a book with magical powers? This must be some new age or occult business...So, I decided to do a quick google of the thing and not being able to get to the gist of the thing after 30 minutes, I advised that this probably was not the most appropriate book for young teenage girls. I have since had opportunity, not to read the book or watch the film, but to explore the resources on the site and watch a few related videos on YouTube. What follows below is my non-theological review of the secret: First 20minutes of 'The Secret'-  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b1GKGWJbE8 What works... One thing that the Secret definitely has going for it is persuasive appeal and adverti