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Black History Month Salutes Woman of Wonder, Erni Sheperd

Posted on February 6, 2021 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Author Ms. Iyanla Vanzant says, “Life loves you enough to live like you, to breathe through you, to express itself as you. Life loves you so much; it does everything in its power to stay in you, to be with you, and allow you to depend on it. Life is, at this very moment, totally and absolutely in love with you! Life wants to look like you, live like you, be like you, live as you because it respects and honors that you are. When life sees you coming, it gets exciting! It can hardly contain itself! Life is ready……
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Rotary Opens Opportunities Through Service Resulting in Opportunities for Peace Featuring Ralph Menzel, President of the Rotary EClub of Global Peacebuilders Virginia

Posted on February 4, 2021 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Rotary creates environments of peace. “Many people use the end of one year to reflect on things they would like to accomplish in the coming year. What better resolution than to sow the seeds of peace in 2021? Peace underscores much of the work that Rotary members do in improving their communities around the world. Rotary’s peacebuilding initiatives seek to create environments where lasting peace is possible. We do this by continually investing in sustainable and measurable peace programs throughout our communities and across the globe; by creating an extensive network of peacebuilders and community leaders dedicated to peace and conflict……
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Rotary Opens Opportunities Through Service: Providing Clean Water to the Undeserved through District 7610 Strategic Water Alliance Featuring Bob Jansen

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Where did you get your last drink of water? Did you question its purity? “844 million people around the world don’t have access to clean water: that’s more than 1 of every 10 people around the world.”[1] Clean water, sanitation, and hygiene education are necessities for a healthy environment and a productive life. When people have access to clean water and sanitation, waterborne diseases decrease, children, stay healthier and attend school more regularly, and mothers can spend less time carrying water and more time helping their families. Join the informative conversation as Rotarian Bob Jansen updates us on the Rotary……
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Moments of Mindfulness: An audio meditation experience with Sherrell Moore-Tucker

Posted on September 4, 2020 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

During the pandemic, have you been feeling intimate with physical, mental, emotional uncertainty and unrest? It seems that everything that can be shaken is shaking, where noise, angry noise appears to be drowning out laughter and love. I found I have been grieving the loss of power over my thoughts, my movements, my expectations, my finances, my future, my everything. So, I created Moments of Mindfulness as an emotional and spiritual band-aide for the hurt we are collectively feeling. All of us at the table have permission to find the stillness that allows authenticity and vulnerability to rise above the noise. We are going……
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Moments of Mindfulness: Enduring Legacy or Staying Power in the Storm

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Having thoroughly enjoyed the musical Hamilton recently, I was impressed with Alexander Hamilton’s predictive insight into future seasons of national uncertainty. He specifically included corresponding requisite leadership skills. “In 1788, while advocating for the adoption of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton famously wrote in the Federalist papers, No.70 that the structure of Government should enable the office of the president to have sufficient “energy” to meet the significant challenges of the day. (W)hat are the ingredients that constitute this energy?” Hamilton asks rhetorically, and he goes on to name four elements;” Unity, duration, adequate provision for its support, and competent powers.”……
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Moments of Mindfulness: Be Encouraged!

Posted on April 2, 2020 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

I went to sleep one night and woke up to a different world. It’s been easy to maintain the ordered physical distance during my daily walks because my only companion is my reflection in the darkened windows of offices and shops. However, it’s been tough to watch the usually frisky neighborhood dogs walking their humans with gloomy, subdued steps. It’s like this mean old “invisible virus enemy” has stolen their spirits as it tries to take away our lives. But wait! This is a time where our memories can become useful weapons. Remember the fight of your life, the second……
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Moments of Mindfulness: We are isolated, but not alone.

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Today we fight not one, but two enemies. The invisible pandemic enemy and the enemy within. We are stuck between our no longer and our not yet. Stuck looks and feels like anxiety, depression, anger, and emotional isolation. Stuck makes it hard to know who and how to trust. And yet, we are not defeated. We have individual thoughts and words, the most powerful weapons of all. What if we used their positive energy to wage war on the enemy within, the one few are talking about, our mental well being? Someone said, “The virus attacks the lungs, but we……
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Were it not for those who care with Dr. Ethel Canty Bothuel

Posted on November 30, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

This month we have been exploring the diversity found in the space called legacy; more specifically the legacy of caring and loving. We themed it “Were it not for Those Who Care and Who Have Cared”. Ever stop to think about those people? You know the ones… who especially encouraged you to keep on going when you had decided to stop; who gave when you couldn’t ask, who dried the track of your tears… and who said, “Yes you can!” They planted seeds for you to harvest immediately or later in your life. They have magical timing…some stay for a……
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Sowing Seeds of Service above Self with Tonia Oldham

Posted on November 9, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

I love it when I get together, courageous enough to look and walk beyond words. Giving each other permission to expose gifts of imperfection without judgment. Frankly Speaking is our time and space to help, heal, educate, and encourage each other into the best version of ourselves no matter where we are in our journey. Our spiritual doggie bag this week includes a note from LOVE also known as God and as offered by author Glennon Doyle Melton and I quote: “Stop holding your breath. Breathe. There is enough. I have created an abundance of acceptance, attention, recognition, joy, peace, money,……
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What we think we know with Bill Knopf, chef on Vision Quest Rehabilitation Wagon Train for troubled teens

Posted on July 28, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

This month’s introductory question: So, what do you want to be when you grow up? This is a question we ask children and adults. We grow up getting clues as to who we should be from significant others and multimedia images and stories. We begin in a once upon a time and have a goal of living happily ever after. Somewhere between the ages of three and ten, we seem to be drawn to the land of superheroes. If you doubt that we all arrive in this world with gifts and as a gift, pay attention to an infant or a……
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