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Celebration

Can dreams come true?

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Have you ever been in a near-miss accident? Do you know that feeling of panic that lingers in your chest? Maybe it radiates down your arms into your fingertips leaving a tingling sensation? That is your body’s response to something it did not anticipate. Now imagine that every day of your life, you experience that sensation. For many children with special needs, their environment is a threatening place due to the demands that are placed on an atypically-developing nervous system. Now imagine these children in their wheelchairs unable to access a playground or with disabilities that do not let them hang……
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A Gentle Reminder: Elevate Your Brilliance September 19, 2015!

Posted on September 15, 2015 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

I am always inviting you to join the conversation. Today I want to invite you to an adventure. Are you a talented, hardworking and focused woman who knows you were created for more yet not sure how to get there? Perhaps you feel you have given all you have working for others and want to move your personal dream further faster. I want to connect with you! I am looking for a woman who is strong enough to be vulnerable and courageous enough to be authentic. Together we can sit at the table of possibilities and from a place of……
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How do you get to happy?

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

I am sitting on my lanai (the Florida name for a screened porch) at sunset. The tree tops seem to be swaying to the rain-like melody of my fountain. A family of Florida Sandhill Cranes have paused to listen at the edge of the pond below. Otherwise, it is quiet. I feel at peace. I feel happy. My life isn’t perfect but right this minute it feels like I think perfect might feel. And I think all the happiness you ever find lies within you. I am focusing on what is right rather than what is wrong; what is working rather……
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Need to flip your script?

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

So it’s 2:41 a.m. and I am wandering through some old journals to see where I have been and perhaps affirming where I am going when I bumped into this random collection of thoughts. I don’t know if the exact words are mine or borrowed from someone I thought of as genius at the time, except for Michelangelo’s of course, because he was a genius. They feel encouraging. They feel empowering and they feel like they need to be shared: “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it” &……
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Are you shopping for a new friend?

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

What’s the occasion? Friends come in all sizes, shapes, colors and capabilities. They are not time stamped so you don’t know how long they will be good. Still, you can try them on before you commit. They satisfy needs. Some are high maintenance yet really bring joy into your life. Others seem to require no work at all. If you don’t connect for long periods of time, when you do it feels like the time apart was merely a comma in the middle of a sentence. However when old friends and new seasons don’t fit any more, emotional honesty and……
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How do you “do” love?

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

I was drawn to this stream of consciousness at a recent social gathering when the Karaoke machine played “Stop In The Name Of Love!” by the Supremes. I immediately time traveled back to 1965 when young women would jump up to sing along, smile and mimic the sexy moves of the hottest female singing group of the time. Music was a lot about romance then. I don’t know if we were immersed in the drama of the lyrics because that’s who we were…dramatic. Or, if in our naiveté we were yet wise enough to understand that love doesn’t always feel……
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Fallen but not forgotten.

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Pause with me to appreciate the legacy left by the brave men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Then from your grateful heart declare, “I thank you for your service!” ― G.K. Chesterton says “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” That would be us. Then again what about the warriors who come home with both invisible and visible wounds? Their wounds belong to all of us. They deserve our compassion and empathy. They deserve our look and see and not our look away. They deserve our fix to……
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