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Perfect Children’s Books for Christmas

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Here are some Book Ideas for Christmas shopping this year, they are books that will invite and inspire your lives and the lives of your children.

Books are a wonderful gift, for they keep giving even after you have read them. I invite to take a look and listen to some of my authors here from An Author’s Kiss    and Our Gifted Children

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The Mouse that would be king…
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5 Myths about Drug Detoxing That You Must Ignore

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When you are struggling with an addiction, it can be quite difficult to decide to seek treatment. Even when you do decide to do so, there are always numerous myths and horror stories out there to discourage you from opting for a detox program.

However, these misconceptions only further encourage the denial that many addicts feel like a side effect of the addiction. That is why we have compiled this list of five myths about detoxing that you need to ignore and enroll in a detox center in Austin right away.

Myth 1: You can detox alone.

One of the biggest myths surrounding detox is that you can do it alone. There is no doubt that much of the detox program and how successful it is depend on your own will and determination. However, this does not mean that you can go through detox all by yourself, relying on your will alone.

Most detox programs have highly qualified professionals with years of experience working with you to make the program successful. They have much more knowledge which allows them to encourage and boost morale on your good days and help you through the bad days as well.

Myth 2: Detox is expensive.

A lot of people avoid going for detox or even simply inquiring about it just because of the fear of how expensive it will be. They assume that detox programs are just for wealthy individuals and celebrities, as seen on television.

However, the truth is that drug addiction is a condition that afflicts many parts of society. As a result, the programs are designed to cater to various people, including those who might come from a weak financial background. Many detox centers offer financial aid to those who need it, and sometimes, even insurance policies can help cover some of the costs.

Myth 3: Detox means separating yourself from normal life.

Another common misconception associated with detox programs is that you will have to completely separate yourself from your normal life. You will have to give up your favorite hobbies and past times. You will have to cut off your friends and family. You might even have to leave your job.

However, this is not the case at all. In reality, detox can be different for everyone, depending on the kind of addiction they face, how long they have had it, and other factors. Certain treatment centers offer outpatient services, which means you will not even have to leave your home.

For others, they might have to come in several times a week. Even if they are staying at the center permanently, they are allowed to meet their friends and family and continue with their favorite pastimes.

Myth 4: You are ‘cured’ after detox.

Once you have completed detoxing, or even if you are still in the process, one dangerous assumption to have is that you will be ‘cured’ after detox. You will never have to worry about addiction ever again. This is not true at all.

In reality, addiction is more like a chronic condition, and people often face relapses even after they have successfully completed a detox program. Additionally, there are often other factors at play that actually perpetuate the addiction.

For instance, someone may have a history of trauma. They may be suffering from other mental illnesses, going through a toxic relationship, or be surrounded by people who are addicts themselves. All these factors can cause a relapse which then forces you to continue with your detoxing again.

Myth 5: Detox is like quitting cold turkey.

A lot of people are also scared of detox programs, assuming that they will be like quitting cold turkey. This is, again, not true at all. Detox programs have medical practitioners who are specifically trained to help you detox in the most comfortable, painless, and effective way possible.

Depending on the exact nature of your case, they might prescribe you certain medications to wean you off the drugs and help you deal with all the withdrawal symptoms. They also support you emotionally through regular counseling sessions.

Wrapping Up

Detoxing can still invoke a lot of fear and denial in people who are struggling with an addiction. However, now that you know to ignore these myths, you can help yourself or anyone you know with an addiction to get started with their treatment right away.

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Reasons Why Taurus Have A Love Interest In Cancers

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There are many chances you’ve seen a Taurus-Cancer couple and said abruptly, “wow! Definitely, a match made in heaven.” 

This is mainly because Taurus and Cancer together make an extremely compatible and beautiful couple. These signs are compassionate, respectful, and very much loyal, allowing their partners to grow in their own space without any extraneous interference.

As said by Clarrise Monahan, “Taurus appreciates dependability and consistency in relationships, and Cancer is certainly a loyal and loving partner. Taurus being a fixed earth sign, helps sensitive Cancer to open up quite easily. Both are supportive of the other, and there is an emotional depth to the relationship.” This statement makes it certain how the moon and Venus admire each other despite the romantic bond they share.

The duo appreciates slow and steady romance and believes in giving time and stability before they write more chapters to their romantic tale.

  1. The Match In Their Personality Traits 

Cancers are warm and caring. They either love you or show no affection at all. Relationship with them is not having any greys to your saga. You are either totally in love or detached, nothing in between. Whereas, Taureans believe in steadfastness and open their arms to whatever comes their way.

The home-oriented perspective of Cancers makes them loyal to their partners and brings the most caring and helpful human out of them, which sometimes Taurus people lack as they are poignant yet very practical towards their being.

You will find Cancerians generous, fun-loving, and very much devoted and likewise Taureans down-to-earth, reliable, and very considerate, who possess a peaceful heart for their loved ones.

  1. The Mutual Affection 

The Taurus-Cancer love is exceptional. Their story grows remarkable with every passing time as both signs are very much kindhearted and sensitive about their partners. You’ll find perspective and compassion in their love.

The deep and silent affection of them makes their love warm and sincere to each other, contributing to a healthy and wholesome relationship.

The affection between these two signs is all about sentiments and connections. Their knack for listening to each other makes them a perfect example of drawing fairytales, which you cannot take your eyes apart from.

Astrologers define Cancer-Taurus love as wild roses blooming with no fear in the romantic garden. Happiness and contentment are all you’ll see in their liaison.

  1. Both Loves To Take Care Of Each Other 

Taurus and Cancers love to take care of each other, both emotionally and physically.

The deep love between them makes them more connected to each other, which lets them keep good care of each other’s emotional baggage. 

Cancers are warm, tender, and always helpful in de-cluttering Taurean’s stressful minds, whereas Taurus people love to make their partners happy with a touch of a kiss. 

When these people share their emotional expressions, it’s certainly how madly they are in love because none of these signs are good in sharing their emotions.

You know these folks are in love when they find ways for eye contact because gazing in the eyes of each other is their favorite way to fawn over and make love.

  1. Communication And Connection

Communication is the key to win a Taurus heart. They love talking about lifestyles, home, fashion, relationships, children, etc. but never talk to them about academics because they are least interested in studies and mostly buy assignment online UK to avoid wasting their time on something they dislike.

However, Cancerians are different here. They love to be silent and talk less. They want their partners to understand them and communicate with them in a slow yet significant manner.

This opposite trait of them makes their match perfect for each other as in their relationship, one talks and the other listens.

When emotionally connected, Cancers like gentle talks and avoid heated arguments. If the Taurus is stubborn here, they can get hard-headed, which will result in them making inconvincible.

  1. The Intimacy

Cancers and Taurus are hopeless romantics, especially Cancers. No matter what they have been through or what challenges come their way, they will always believe in love and adore their partners to the fullest. 

However, when it’s about intimacy, none of these cares about Mars very much as none of them has a strong sexual urge just for the sake of it. This is why many astrologers assume they are asexual and have no urge to go intimate.

Though this duo loves physical pleasures, sexual relationship is mostly comprised as Cancers lack the ability of intimacy and just wants to feel touched, nothing else.

Taurus here becomes the rulers. They don’t force and make the aura comfortable for their partners and satisfy them with closeness and give them the feel of touch and smell.

  1. Fights And Conflicts

Turbulence is Taurus’s biggest enemy, and Cancers can’t stand confusion. This is the reason they fight most and love most.

According to a few cheap dissertation services, arguments are mostly initiated by Cancers to clear a conflict and end the confusion, but Taurus is very immature and behaves indecently as they cannot hold arguments.

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This is the reason, Cancer-Taurus couples avoid picking battles and risks and clear things before they turn into a heated argument.

If by any chance there is a fight, Taurus are the first ones to make efforts and offer their shoulder.

Better Together

With all the points mentioned above, it’s clear that not only better together, but Taurus and Cancers are best together.

The union of these two souls makes the sky shine like no other. When the depth of earth welcomes the waves of water, they become a match beyond belief. Not only love, but their food, fight, cuddles, etc., make the world happiest than ever.

If you are any of these signs, you know who you need to look for to have the best of your life. Until that, you don’t know what you’re missing out on! So, good luck finding your sweetheart!

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Daddy’s Girl by choice

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I always wanted one of mine to be a daddy’s girl. So when I started going through my painful divorce due to abuse and had two toddlers while just finding out I was pregnant yet again (all 4 kiddos from the same bio father)…what kept going through my mind was what if they never have a daddy in their life? And I guess this means there will be no such thing as a “daddy’s girl” in our family. I say this because not only was I single mommin’ it, but their bio father wanted nothing to do with any of them. After we lost our son, Samuel, he leaned towards drugs and I leaned towards my Faith in Christ. Actually, that’s when I accepted God to be my Lord and Savior. (My testimony is another story for another day, but feel free to hit me up if you wanna know). Which also leads me to say…how quick Joey was later down the road to sign over his parental rights, which was a HUGE blessing from Above (so yes I’m thankful) so they could be ADOPTED by you know who-yours truly, Jeff.

So here I am 7 months later and very preggo with Harper and I receive a little thumbs up on match dot com on the silly profile my sister, Christina, had set up for me. Then came a message. It caught my attention because it was a profile pic with a man and his children. I had not seen anything like it at all. Not at all. It was very intriguing. And just like that…BOOM! Bahaha. Ok. Ok. As much as I want to say the rest is history, that is far from the truth. But, what did happen immediately is I fell head over heels in love with my Prince Charming. We had our first date on December 31st 2012, in NYE. We were engaged by February 14th, 2013, and married June 8th, 2013…so needless to say, “When you know, you know”.

Which brings me to the point of this part of my life story…In the beginning, I feared for what kind of relationship my babes would have with Jeff or if any, to be honest. Would they love him like a father or like a friend or maybe not at all?

You see I met Jeff when Lillian was 2, Coleman was 1 and I was 7 months pregnant with Harper. And his kids were 8,4, and 1 year old. But what transformed right after we met was a love I had never seen before. Jeff loved my children like no other. He treated them like his very own. To this day, if you met all 6 of our children you would have no clue which ones were his bio kids and which ones were mine that he ended up ADOPTING before the first deployment we went through together. Needless to say, Jeff is the only daddy that they have ever had and they have only known Jeff as their daddy. So here comes the “daddy’s girl” part of the story…Harper, without a doubt, is completely a daddy’s girl. Jeff has known her since the beginning of her life. He was even in the birthing room at the hospital when I gave birth to her…funny how that worked out cause he had just started Navigator School and his schedule was craaaazy!! When Harper and Jeff look at each other it is undeniable love. It honestly is something a mother dreams about. To this day, even with Jeff’s crazy work schedule, she will tell you right away that “daddy is her favorite”. It’s such a beautiful relationship. So yes…I have 6 living children, I’ve had two miscarriages, and I have lost a son who I found lifeless in his crib when he was merely 9 weeks old. All my biological children are amazingly close to their daddy and that dream I feared that would never come true about my loves having a true daddy in their everyday life and one of my girls being a daddy’s girl…well, that dream came true and that wish was very much granted.

Life is a journey. Not a destination. So I continue to say with each passing day…let go and let God. Trust the process. Believe it and you too will see it. Love y’all! And I pray you have the best weekend of your life, yet!!!! ??#leadHER#believHER#OvercomHER#motHER#militarypartnHER#DreamHER#forgivHER#EntreprenHER#yesYOUcan#riserunbecome

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A Working Class Hero Is Something To Be

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A rebellious, maladjusted version of common sense often screams into human ears as the insanity of puberty arrives. Basic intelligence is famous for getting lost under the influence of raging hormones during the early stages of biological adulthood. But basic intelligence can also be enhanced by those very same hormones!

Common sense was seriously pissed off in the 1960s, even without the influence of hormones. This was understandable. A lot of information was being presented to us as sensible truths that deserved attention and demanded obedience. Much of that information was so darkly and dangerously nonsensical that it needed to be exposed to the light by any means necessary.

Many folks became traumatized by the decade’s severe transitions. They got one foot stuck in the widespread cultural obedience of the 1950s and the other foot stuck in the volatile progressive revolution of the 1960s. Tight-rope walking across that cultural schism with each foot on a different rope left some of us unbalanced. I can remember acting like a cartoon character that was mean enough to drop a box of rocks from a roof, dumb (and fast!) enough to run under it while it was still falling, and disjointed from reality enough to blame the rest of the world for my headache. It seems that hard drugs, wild hormones, cultural as well as personal schizophrenia, and parenting that made Joan Crawford look like Mr. Rogers did not mix well.

Finding unorthodox information in the psychedelic ’60s was easy and dangerous. Things that could help immensely and things that could hurt severely were both readily available — and often came in the same package. Rock stars, school kids, their teachers, inner-city folks, country bumpkins, geniuses, dunces, and folks of all sizes, shapes, and colors got dropped into the same unfamiliar waters. No one knew how to swim.

Some learned. Some drowned.

The psychedelic experience opened many new doors of perception, but poisonous chemical side effects and constrictive cultural repression denied many young folks the ability to deal with what was on the other side of those doors. Some of us made wrong choices and died young. Others rode the right choices out of control and died young. Still, others survived and flourished.

Altered states helped many young folks separate from the dysfunctional drama of their parents and culture. I was one of those young folks. Altered states introduced me to the sweet, calm confidence that comes from having had a loving family forever. My first tab of LSD taught me that forever is always right here and now. The loving-family feeling revolved around the messages and messengers of our music. Friends became closer than family in sharing that music’s point of view, and in sharing the often risky mental explorations that were so much a part of its message. Our music wasn’t just background accompaniment. It was often the road map for our psychedelic voyages. Friends visited other dimensions together. These cultural brothers and sisters had psychic experiences that could not be translated into words well enough to discuss them with parents or teachers — even if those relationships had been open and honest enough to invite discussion.

They were not.

Some of our messengers and role models died young. Some sold out and became less inspiring quickly. The rare few (Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Carlos Santana, etc.) continue on with consistent quality. As great as any were and these rare few continue to be, there are many people who feel that John Lennon was in a class by himself.

Many of his songs were tools designed to help the listener see truth and foster love. His lyrics battled fear, stupidity, and selfishness. John courageously demonstrated what honest internal exploration is, and did so unashamedly while the whole world watched. He supported several internationally beneficial causes and invented unique methods to promote them. His greatest and most persistent efforts involved promoting peace and love over war and hate. John’s strongly worded musical messages were deeply admired and respected. They also made him as unpopular in certain religious, military/industrial, and political circles as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was with the Ku Klux Klan and the Dalai Lama is with the Chinese government.

John Lennon was murdered in New York as our American military industry and its government promoted their bizarre Star Wars program. The concept of “All you need is love” is one that few cultures and even fewer governments have ever been able to understand, much less cultivate.

Media often creates emotion for its own purposes. When Mr. Lennon was killed, there was a shock felt around the world that the media didn’t have to create. He was one of the twentieth century’s great representatives and continues to be an inspiration to the billions of us who will never stop wanting to “give peace a chance.”

Powerful people still selfishly direct the deaths of military personnel and innocent civilians alike. Some do it consciously. Others do it unwittingly. Some may be evil, others mentally ill, and many are just plain ignorant.

A true devotee of almost any religion or spiritual school of thought would say that these troublemakers need compassion, as does everyone. Maybe they are right. Maybe we need to muster a gentler understanding of the worst offenders among us in order to stop the bleeding and make history a little happier. Winners of battles, aggressive conquerors, are the authors of our currently accepted version of “history.” That is why history books are so often war-oriented, and so consistently riddled with brutality and falsehoods. The view of history that institutional education systems present us with is a skewed, manipulated, and barbaric view of humanity’s track record.

There are many humans that would rather see peace and happiness thrive as a global condition. We are certainly vast in number, but perhaps too polite. We may solve these puzzles of violence and war someday. It would be nice if they stayed solved for long enough to allow a more pleasant, truthful, well-rounded history book to be produced.

If murder for material profit and the lust for power is ever replaced on Earth by harmonious improvement for its own sake, you can be sure that Mr. Lennon’s status will be elevated in our history books from rebellious rock star to the spiritual messenger.

Thank you, John.

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”

“We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.”

“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.”

“There are no problems, only solutions.”

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”

About the Author

Doug “Ten” Rose may be the biggest smartass as well as one of the most entertaining survivors of the hitchhiking adventurers that used to cover America’s highways. He is the author of the books Fearless Puppy on American Road and Reincarnation Through Common Sense, has survived heroin addiction and death, and is a graduate of over a hundred thousand miles of travel without ever driving a car, owning a phone, or having a bank account.

Ten Rose and his work are a vibrant part of the present and future as well as an essential remnant of a vanishing breed.

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The books Fearless Puppy On American Road and Reincarnation Through Common Sense by this same author are also available through Amazon or the Fearless Puppy website, where there are sample chapters from those books. Entertaining TV/radio interviews with and newspaper articles about the author are also available there. There is no charge for anything but the complete books! All author profits from book sales will be donated to help sponsor an increase in the number of wisdom professionals on Earth, beginning with but certainly not limited to Buddhist monks and nuns.

If you missed the Introduction to the new book that will be titled Temple Dog Soldier, or would like to see several chapters of it that are available for free online, go to the Puppy website Blog section. This is a book in progress. You will be reading it as it is being created! Just like you, I don’t know what the next chapter is going to be about until it is written. As the Intro will tell you, this is a totally true story — and probably the only book ever written by and about a corpse journeying completely around the world!

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