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It becomes it with the energies of our hopes and perfect opportunity an extension of us as it Mini-lessons are available in dreams and it becomes a part of us. shelters and protects addition to a performance and is If you have been considering a for sharing our families and our most valued lots of fun for your guests! You will house blessing for your home, what- gratitude for the learn new dance moves and have possessions. Where else do we spend ever its age, or honoring some impor- Hall the important moments in our some laughs! tant new beginnings taking place years having spent lives? A home protects us from the within your home, please do not hes- elements and provides comfort after itate to pursue it. You will find it a within the walls of Call Daheera at a long and busy day. Our children very touching experience. grow up in the house and within the the house. 401-474-1731 walls we hold our accomplishments Begin Again or Begin Anew different religions and are held in dif- and our failures. We share our lives A House Blessing is a delightful ferent ways. The following is part of way to begin in a new home or to a Navaho prayer used in a house begin anew in an existing home. You blessing: also may want to do a blessing for "May my house be in harmony. your old house just before you sell it. From my head, may it be happy; to This acts as a perfect opportunity for my feet, may it be happy; Where I lie, sharing gratitude for the years having may it be happy. spent within the walls of the house. All above me, may it be happy. By personalizing the benefits it All around me, may it be happy. brings closure and clears out ener- May my fire be well made and gies, acting as a release. happy. May the sun, my mother's House Blessings are done with an ancestor, be happy. May it be happy Little Gems Officiant and those who will be liv- as I walk around my house. May this ing in the house. Make this a special road of light, be happy." Gymnastics & Dance event and consider inviting family If you are interested in having a “Where Tommorow’s Future Comes To Sparkle & Shine” and friends. Refreshments or a meal house blessing, please call me and we can be served afterwards as part of can prepare a personalized ceremony 49 Cedar Swamp Road this special occasion. The House for you. Blessing focuses on and attracts the Smithfield, RI 02917 qualities you want in your home Rev. Charlann Walker is an environment - loving, abundance, ordained Interfaith Minister and a (401)232-0763 prosperity, health, balance, healing, Contemporary Ceremonialist. Her laughter. 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If you don't have the time or the or workshop, LIBRARY Detective director Woody Allen, poet/author/historian available to all people. Another component is money to travel around the world, you'll be use the library's Maya Angelou, author Ray Bradbury, director that no one should be denied access to materi- happyW to know that you can go anywhere or resources to James Cameron, Disney co-founder Walt als for any reason. do anything your heart desires, as long as you start a small business, [and] get homework Disney, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, have a library card. You can travel on the help." Apple co-founders Steven Jobs and Steve Imagine a world where books like the Da Orient Express with Agatha Christie, you can Many people don't realize that the library Wozniak, director Steven Spielberg, director Vinci Code or the Harry Potter series weren't decipher Da Vinci's code with Dan Brown; is considered "the people's university," mean- Quentin Tarantino, media mogul Ted Turner, available because the powers that be decided you can solve murders, learn a new language, ing that anyone who has a library card has the and test pilot Chuck Yeager. they were too controversial or not appropriate find a new hobby, and experience all the won- opportunity to learn about anything their heart Autodidactic.com writes "the purpose of for the public to read. 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Continued from Page 10 to save and savor these moments. In later years, after she passed on, I When my older daughter started annual ritual of new beginnings I managed to get them into Put together a simple scrapbook had happy memories to look back kindergarten I cried as I walked comes with an infectious excite- albums in the early years when we to commemorate something--sum- on. Doing special activities with home from the bus stop even as I ment and enthusiasm. had one child. But that seems a long mer vacation, the last school year, children brings families closer, laughed at my sentimental silliness. As the girls look forward to time and many boxes ago now. awards, a birthday party. It doesn't especially if the activity is personal I worried that once she entered the beginning their new school year we Like most mothers, I spend a fair have to be fancy to make it special. and meaningful. The activity can be cycle of the school system she as a family will be rewarded with amount of time chastising myself Any department store scrapbook changed over time to suit different would be lost to me somehow. I many more achievements and for the things I should have done-- will do for those who don't have the stages. have no reason to think it will be unforgettable moments. the photographs that remain in time to be creative. On each page As I look back on the summer any easier with her younger sister. It's that time of year again. A envelopes, the places we didn't visit put something meaningful. Make it what matters most is that we spent it It isn't as if they're leaving the wonderful time of year filled with this summer, the play dates we easy on yourself--include school together. We had time, the most nest, after all--not yet. And this promise, but bittersweet. intended to arrange but didn't. flyers or party invitations with dates valuable of commodities. Our pho- And then I comfort myself with and other details, photos to remem- tos might not be in albums, but the the reminder of all the things we did ber the day, and cute or memorable girls are smiling in nearly every pic- accomplish. Visits to the play- remarks. ture. They're tangible proof the ground and library, dishes of ice Set aside part of Saturday after- summer wasn't wasted. Sharon’s WWiigg GGaalllleerryy cream on hot nights, videos we noon as special family time. In my I remind myself that it's not the Sharon’s watched together with overflowing twenties I often did research in things we do for our children, but bowls of popcorn. Providence on Saturdays. Afterward the children themselves who matter. I remind myself that September I'd go to a pastry shop in the Arcade Their happiness doesn't depend on brings the promise of new special and bring home treats my mother how many day trips we take, how moments in a different season. and I would share over tea. 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