Choose to be someone who will unite people and not divide them by casting conflicts, real or imagined.

Even the Bible talks about someone who stirs up trouble and separating friends: “A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.”

Choose to be someone who try not to be swayed by the opinions of other people easily. Be a critical thinker and learn to analyze words.

Choose to be someone who does not easily believe lies and hollow chatter. Question yourself if all you ever hear from other people are words like these and if you are learning anything from it.

Choose to be someone who does not judge and laugh at other people’s mistakes, eccentricities and life choices. Learn to discern if these affect your life because more often than not, it doesn’t. Soon, you will realize that the time you spent thinking, talking and dissecting these things that does not directly affect you was time wasted.

It doesn’t make you a better person, it makes you sound bitter instead.

Choose to be someone who shows understanding and maturity. Choose to be someone who can be trusted to keep secrets and not spread these without caution.

Choose to be that kind of person you’d like to be friends with.

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The sun looks so tiny in this photo that I took using a film camera. Photo taken back in 1991.

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Today, October 31, 2016 feels like summer. The heat isn’t just too much.

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I wish to go to this happy place where the breeze is cool and the waters, warm and inviting. I wish to see the setting sun, splendid in different hues. During sunset, who knew that orange and purple could be a perfect color combination?

My son once said to me that people should not say “I wish” because it sounds so much better if people say “I hope” Why? Not only is there an anticipation but an effort to make that hope come true, more than just wishing something to happen.

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Amongst the millions of Instagram photos with hashtags, there is one hashtag that I always use for my food photos: #platefuloffun I use it because I have a food blog called: http://platefuloffun.com

In this blog are very simple recipes that I have done at home. This needs to be updated because I have been remiss in documenting what I cook. So I guess I can call myself a food blogger because I cook and blog about food which I have personally prepared.

I have school day lunchbox Chronicles posts. This is a documentation of the packed lunch I prepare for my children.

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