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Go to Jane's blog. Contact / join email list. I didn't know anyone who was personally affected by the 9/11 tragedy. I did, however, want to support the fund drives, so I purchased one of the copper name bracelets. The proceeds went to benefit the Fire Department of New York families. I live in California, and I purchased one of the copper name bracelets of a fallen firefighter. I want to contact his family. He asked what the firefighter's name was. I read the name on the bracelet. There was a pause.

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Go to Jane's blog. Contact / join email list. The story begins in 1964 when I was 14 years old and in the 9th grade at Giannini Jr. High in San Francisco. That fall on ABC-TV, Friday nights at 10, there was a show called. 12 O’clock High. We now fast forward sixteen years to 1980. One afternoon I was in a bookstore in Tiburon, California, and I noticed a book entitled. There was a chapter about the B-17’s involvement in the October 14, 1943 Mission No. 115 against the city of Schweinfurt, the c...During ...

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Go to Jane's blog. Contact / join email list. SAN FRANCISCO CABLE CAR #516. Hit the fast forward again. This time many years have elapsed. Cliff and Norma came back from California to Clear Lake to celebrate Mom Myhr's 100th birthday. About six years later I was shopping at a used goods store in Clear Lake and saw a pen and ink drawing of this very same picture. What a great buy for 50 cents! The drawing now hangs on my fireplace wall along with a card from the deck. A LOVE STORY FROM THE DIVINE PLAN.

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Threads story tell a story. Go to Jane's blog. Contact / join email list. Micki, her husband Nadie, and four friends were in a hospital waiting room while their friend Chuck was in surgery. Micki tells her extraordinary story of the strings that filled the last few hours of a stranger's life with joyful connections. We were too old to have a second cup of coffee. The six of us sat tense and blurry eyed in the waiting room. 12 was with her husband, her mother and her father who was scheduled to have his k...

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Go to Jane's blog. Contact / join email list. A year later the tiny rows of thread are still being sewn,. Connecting Micki and her husband with their friends. Read Part 1 of this story. We were in Los Angeles only for three days. And our time was booked. We were obligated for every moment, save three hours in the middle of Wednesday afternoon. We chose to spend our freedom on an excursion to the Los Angeles Museum of Art near the tar pits on Wilshire and pastrami at Canter’s on Fairfax. We had gone to th...

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Go to Jane's blog. Contact / join email list. I could not believe it had been that easy. And yet, it really hadn't been. After all, it had taken two years. Maybe finding that ring was yet another “sign.” An indication that maybe I had not and could not ever really lose me. That I, like the ring, had been there to be found all along. Kim Mallin - Charleston, SC. This story was originally published by. A journal of personal essay. Tom Stock - Manorville, NY. Go to Jane's blog. Contact / join email list.

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Go to Jane's blog. Contact / join email list. Finding Common Ground Through Random Acts of Kindness. As I finished reading a book, while awaiting departure from Bergstrom International Airport, Austin, TX, a young lady appeared in the seat beside me. 8220;Are you a reader? 8221; I asked her. 8220;Yes, I like to read! 8221; she answered. 8221; I offered, wanting to lighten base weight of my shoulder bag, before catching a connecting flight in Houston. The rest is history! 8220;That’s me! And, you and I ar...

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Go to Jane's blog. Contact / join email list. MOM, I COULDN'T BE BETTER! A story about hope and peace for people who have lost loved ones. My son Mark was only 49 when he contracted lung cancer which had already spread to his brain. Eight months later he was gone. He had always been so healthy and a tall, good looking man who everyone loved. He passed on in August of 2004. I miss him so much. He smiled and said, I couldn't be better! Donnalyn - Irvine, CA. TWO DAYS IN SEPTEMBER. I was with a half-dozen J...

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Connecting Stories - About Jane Allen

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Go to Jane's blog. Contact / join email list. The overall theme of my life, as a psychotherapist and a personal coach, has been connecting people and knocking down walls. My writing, in the past few years, has focused increasingly on looking at what divides us (from each other and from ourselves) and how to change that. David Whyte tells us:. This is not the age of information. This is NOT the age of information. Turn off the news and the radio and your blurred screen. This a time for loaves and fishes.

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