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Tag: perseverance

Shoveling Rain

December 8, 2020 Janet Beagle Blog, Fire Starters

The storm started as rain. Cold and pelting. Then sluicing. Then softer. The quality of the sound changed, the texture of the rain changed, and I knew it was time for action. By the time

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Like a Shower of Leaves

November 10, 2020 Janet Beagle Blog, Fire Starters

I had forgotten the sound, but I remember it now. Standing in a New England woods, watching the autumn leaves drift through the canopy, I flash back. I remember tumbling through giant piles of leaves,

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Leadership Lessons in a Blade of Grass

October 13, 2020 Janet Beagle Blog, Fire Starters, Leadership

There is an opportunity in between all of that to have a real impact. This is how.

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Hope in the Sticky middle

September 8, 2020 Janet Beagle Blog, Fire Starters, hope
Picnic Table

A previous picnicker must have left a smudge of something sweet along the table edge. A drop of jelly or a splash of lemonade. The source didn’t really matter, but I watched as an exploring

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Hope from the Father

June 9, 2020 Janet Beagle Fire Starters
clouds parting

I’ve heard it said that you can live several weeks without food, several days without water, and several minutes without oxygen; but you can’t live one second without hope. If this is true, I want

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Washed Away

April 14, 2020 Janet Beagle Fire Starters

Hours of careful effort had etched the colorful chalk drawings into the sidewalk. They were there to brighten the day of the neighborhood and the mail carrier. They certainly brightened my day. A small gift

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I’m not looking for a dog

June 11, 2019 Janet Beagle Fire Starters
Cage bars

So what am I doing here? The first time my answer was simple. I carried in a nearly new bag of dog food. Some flea and tick prevention. A bag of dental chews with just

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Love Springs

February 12, 2019 Janet Beagle Fire Starters, Love, Relationships
Toy groundhog in plants

I heard that Punxsutawney Phil is predicting an early spring this year. Legend has it that this Pennsylvanian groundhog can predict the approach of spring when he sticks his head out of his den on

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Running the Hill of Change

October 9, 2018 Janet Beagle Blog, Fire Starters

“The worst is when the hill is at the end, because you’re already so tired, and then you have this big hill to run up.” I matched my friend’s stride along the trail, but not

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Danger Ahead

July 10, 2018 Janet Beagle Fire Starters
Desert mountains

Hanging in my bedroom is an inexpensive print of a cowboy on his horse. Both look with trepidation to the left, beyond the frame’s border. The horse’s head is up, ears alert. He chomps the

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