Annelise Lords
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Annelise Lords writes short, inspiring, motivating, and thought-provoking stories that target and heal the heart. She has added fashion designer to her name. Check out https://www.redbubble.com/people/AnneliseLords/shop?asc=u
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The Heart's Connection
Belinda Llamas hasn’t celebrated Christmas in seven years. Christmas stole her husband Noel, twins Blyss and Nigel away from her. So, she blocks the door to Christmas and its attachments in her heart. As an Advertising Executive, she would refuse all Ads related to Christmas. She would watch no TV, nor listen to and look at anything that promotes or advertises Christmas. At the start of December, she would ask to work from home. Then on December 24, she would leave New York and go to her cabin in the Rockies. A place where Christmas and its pain won’t be able to reach her. She sends no Christmas cards and accepts none.
By Annelise Lords 5 years ago in Humans
Poverty's Incentives
On the campus of the elite Holycross University, Vanessa Blake sat under a large Oak tree, on one of many concrete benches. Her bag of books rested on a large square-shaped concrete table, half covering the red and black checker's board painted on top. Watching the leaves fall to the ground with the help of a gentle breeze, her thoughts on what she is going to write for her thesis.
By Annelise Lords 5 years ago in Motivation
An Ice-cream Life
Motivational speaker Jean Demetry was invited to speak at the graduating class of 2020, at the university that turned down his application twenty years ago. He agrees to do the speech for free if the school board allowed him to choose the location.
By Annelise Lords 5 years ago in Motivation
The Road To Miracles
In the small bathroom, she shares with the mops and cleaning supplies, Cynthia Wilson sat in the darkness, loads the 9mm as her father taught her. She points the gun to her head, tears flowing, her body shivering from the pangs of hunger, as she hadn’t eaten all day, saying, “Well God, if you won’t get me out of hell, this 9mm will.” A loud crash pulls her thoughts back into the pain and reality of her life. Wiping her tears with the back of her left hand, nodding as her thoughts dipped into the direction of the noise, she said to herself, “They are fighting again.”
By Annelise Lords 5 years ago in Motivation
Check The Messenger Before You Take The Message.
The ringing of her cellphone snatches her attention away from her laptop, but only for a second. Recognizing the number, Nelly reverts her attention to her work. Half an hour later the ringing of her doorbell pulls her attention away again. Checking her doorbell-cam with her cellphone, she said into the phone, “It’s open Lizzie.” Using the App on her cell phone to open her front door.
By Annelise Lords 5 years ago in Humans
