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By Victoria Price, Inspirational Speaker & Author
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CREATING A DAILY PRACTICE OF JOY

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Remembrance

November 11, 2018

Here in the UK, today is Remembrance Day, the day that honors the end of World War I.

This Remembrance Day is particularly noteworthy, as it marks the one hundredth anniversary of Armistice Day. One hundred years ago today, the Great War, the war — it was then hoped — to end all wars, came to a merciful end, but not before over a quarter of the male population of Europe was killed and many more permanently disabled (mentally or physically) — and the entire sociopolitical landscape of Europe forever altered.

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Tags Remembrance Day, remembrance, love, legacy of love, love not hate, anti-Semitism, Armistice Day, war, world war ii, world war i, the Great War, red poppies
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Love One Another

October 28, 2018

This is a blog about practicing joy. In these dark days, it can seem hard to summon joy, let alone practice it. But joy and love cannot exist without one another. So to practice joy is, by necessity, to practice love. And so to practice joy every day is to summon the heart within each of us that knows that there really is nothing and no one to hate, because we are all one in Love.

Anne Frank wrote, “How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.”

Right here, right now — each of us can improve the world by learning to love more and hate less. To eradicate any justification to hate, and learn to forgive in love. It’s not easy. Sometimes it feels as though hate should only be met by hate and that love is some pie in the sky nostalgia for better times.

It’s not. Love is the ONLY answer.

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Tags love, love always wins, love the world whole, love not hate, love one another, power of Love, Holocaust, Etty Hillesum, Anne Frank, synagogue, Dachau, Budapest, hate crimes, stand up to hate, joy as love, daily practice of joy, learn to love, lean on love
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The Gospel According to Bill (and Bloodhounds)

July 29, 2018

At this weekend’s horror/paranormal convention here in Kentucky, an older white- haired gentleman with a big smile kept coming by my table. I later found out that his name is Bill. 

Each time he stopped by, Bill would lean in and tell me something he liked about my dad’s movies in a Kentucky accent so thick that I had to lean right back in to understand him.

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Tags gospel, love, Dick van Dyke, put on a smiling face, Truth, trust, love one another, kentucky, louisville, sermon, Hatfields & McCoys
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Monster Vitamins: Old Voices or New Choices

April 8, 2018

Studies have shown that 85 - 90% of what we spend our lives fearing NEVER comes to pass.

Let me say that again: The VAST MAJORITY of the things we worry about never transpire.

And yet, we spend inordinate amounts of time worrying about these imaginary disasters. And when we worry, we behave and feel and live like the things we fear ARE going to happen.

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Tags old voices, new choices, new narratives, fake news, love, joy, practice joy, peace, fear, overcoming fear
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Face Your Fears & Love Again

June 10, 2017

I have always said that I don't like to be scared.

But the truth is that I must have liked it at least a little, because I let myself be too scared to do something I have always loved for 50 years! 

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Tags the good goat gallery, ohio, cleveland, cleveland museum of art, love, fear, overcoming fear, making art, become an artist, henry miller, paint as you like and die happy
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People Who Need People

People Who Need People | By Victoria Price

June 1, 2017

We can't love in isolation, that is why people need people. When I was a little girl, I knew I needed my friends & those connections to made me feel whole.

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Tags people, strangers, conversations, friendship, love, connection, honesty, communication, funny girl, barbra streisand, omar sharif, vincent price, joy practice, joy, travel, uber, cabbie, london, afghanistan, kabul
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“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give into it. . . whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.”   - Mary Oliver