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Spiritual Growth: Thoughts On God

By Margo, on November 12th, 2009%

Many years ago I attended a CREDO Team Building Retreat in Naples, Italy.  At some point during the retreat, the chaplain who was leading us read the following quotation:

“The meaning of life is listening to Pavarotti, feeling the sun on your face, drinking a bottle of wine, and then another.  The meaning of life is having a safe and healthy society, a happy family life, good health, a loving wife (husband), work that you like, smelling the smell of a new car and the ocean air, being able to hit a bull’s eye, coming home with the fish and . . . → Read More: Spiritual Growth: Thoughts On God

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Poetry: Sharing My Love of Sardinia

By Margo, on July 16th, 2009%

 

I lived from early 1969 to late 1978 on the island of Sardinia which is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.  Sardinia is a very unique and beautiful place with glorious white beaches, incredibly clear, translucent, turquoise waters, moonscape mountains, and low lying rocks of multi-colored hues. 

The Sardinian people have been influenced culturally and through blood lines by the Moors and the Spaniards.  They can be very open and friendly just as they can be closed and very taciturn.  Sardinians are …… Sardinians!  They do not consider themselves to be Italian.  Their dialects, of which . . . → Read More: Poetry: Sharing My Love of Sardinia

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