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Outstanding Blogger Award

laura bruno lilly — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:18:00 +0000

Thank you Mariss for nominating me for this award. Along with the honor it bestows, it also gives me a chance to break out of blogger’s rut! In keeping with Mariss’ attention to word definitions (she ferreted out what exactly a blog award nomination really means) I thought I’d first focus on what the name […]

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Giving Voice: Shelter

laura bruno lilly — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:54:56 +0000

Shelter. That’s maybe all man has ever wanted. Shelter; warmth; food. from: Andrew James Murray Lately the term, “desperately displaced” has been bandied about. As if living ‘between homes – displaced’ is not desperate in and of itself… Giving Voice to those seeking safe places to live and hunker down; where surviving IS thriving. […]

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Keeping you in my heart for awhile…

laura bruno lilly — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 11:24:54 +0000

Note: Something triggered this nostalgic moment and while more on the rough draft side, I thought I’d use it for day three of my “6 years on WP.org” posts. One of the joys of being a performing member of the Denver Mandolin Orchestra was the sense of generational genesis. The turn of the 20th to […]

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Giving Voice: The Eagle Cried

laura bruno lilly — Sun, 26 May 2019 23:33:00 +0000

The Eagle Cried, written and recorded by US Army Major J Billington (Iraqi & Afghanistan vet) This song was written in honor of the sacrifices of Vietnam veterans, who did not receive the hero’s welcome that they deserved when they came home from the fight. This song was written for and performed at the 13th Combat […]

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Giving Voice: Homelessness due to housing crisis

laura bruno lilly — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 01:39:43 +0000

Fact: In Ireland, the number of families made newly homeless rose from 39 in January 2017 to 113 in August. A total of 1,698 families are now estimated to be living in emergency accommodation across the country, the vast majority of which were either evicted by private landlords or were unable to afford a rent […]

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Peace Post: You can be the Revolution

laura bruno lilly — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:04:30 +0000

“You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” -Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution by Tracy Chapman Don’t you know They’re talkin’ ’bout a revolution It sounds like a whisper Don’t you know They’re […]

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Virtual Brownie Sharing Circle #3

laura bruno lilly — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 09:12:23 +0000

Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in Him Psalms 34:8 This edition of the Virtual Brownie Sharing Circle answers the question presented in the first VBSC post: What exactly is the missing ingredient in my ‘loaded brownies minus one ingredient’? In a word: Lavender. In a […]

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Giving Voice: "Das eigene Haus"

laura bruno lilly — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 11:36:53 +0000

Sarah of Art Expedition graciously gave me permission to post her photo and essay on my Giving Voice series. We both stand united against the indifference towards those displaced populations within our respective countries (in addition to the wider world scenario) – and do what we can within our (he)art to Give Voice… Sarah is […]

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Giving Voice: Cancer, Survival and the New Year

laura bruno lilly — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:45:42 +0000

note: I came across this post and felt it needed to be passed on as ‘giving voice’ to someone who needs to know that their voice counts. Survival There is nothing funny about cancer. I thought starting a blog with humor would help lighten the overwhelming heavy weight this dreadful disease inflicts upon the body […]

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Hurting for Home

laura bruno lilly — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:22:18 +0000

in honor of all those displaced due to all manner of circumstances “Roots are best planted in the hearts of people rather than in a place.” Mary Lou Mawicke Bruno (Ma) (Andrew York, ‘Home’)

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