Cynthia Brian's Blog

• LEARN NEW SKILLS THROUGH VOLUNTEERING

  April 23, 2009

  • “If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.” Bob Hope An organization that matches volunteers with charities contacted me this week to find out if Be the Star You Are!® is bombarded with people wanting to volunteer since the economic downturn. One of the questions was, “Are you taking anybody and everybody?”  The answer to the first question ...
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• The Times They Are a Changing

  April 23, 2009

  •  The entire world seems to be focused on the downward spiral of the economy, home foreclosures, bankruptcies, bandits, and greed on Wall Street. Sure we all feel the pinch, especially here at Be the Star You Are!® charity where we depend on donations to service our many outreach programs. But we do have a choice. We can buy in to the doom and gloom, or we can choose to see that this is ...
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• Failure, Flowers, and February

  March 4, 2009

  • "What I need most of all are flowers, always, always."
 -- Claude Monet, 1840-1926, Impressionist painter and life-long gardener Every February I long to see flowers blooming in my garden. Alas-that is not to be as February in Northern California is always the bleakest month as nature sleeps soundly. Gazing out at the gloomy landscape, I am always thrilled by the surprise ...
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