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Synchronicity
You have brains in your head. You have feet in you shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where you to go. Dr. Suess The Oxford Dictionary defines synchronicity as, the simultaneous occurrence of events which […]
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The New Year
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C.S. Lewis Happy New Year! Now that the holidays are past I’m ready for spring. I would like to wake up on January second and see bulbs beginning to sprout and the lawn showing patches of green. No, I am […]
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Best Wishes
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. Maya Angelou Until next year, with best wishes for the Holidays.
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Staying in Touch
There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance. Dodinsky It seems like a million years ago that I would receive long letters from my mother and grandmother. Even then, I wasn’t as committed to timely replies as they were. Still, I miss those letters. Communication, today, has […]
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Stress Less
And then one day I decided that hurry and stress were no longer going to be part of my life. Brendon Burchard Many of us would agree that the Holidays can be a stressful time. It seems that when we get to October, the year is over before we know it. One minute we’re carving […]
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Holidays
Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see. The Polar ExpressChris Van Allsburg The Polar Express, a Caldecott Medal winner, is one of my favorite children’s books and I often give it as a baby gift. At it’s core, it’s about keeping the belief we […]
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Lists
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. A.A.Milne I confess to being a note maker. I keep a daily planner and looking at it is one of the first things I do in the morning. I tried keeping it on my desktop […]
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Winter is Coming
They who sing through the summer must dance through the winter. Italian Proverb I admit to not being a fan of winter. I grew up in the north woods of Wisconsin where the season is long and takes no prisoners. The cold seeps through bulky sweaters, heavy wool coats, layers of gloves. It doesn’t matter. […]
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Our Best Friend
A dog wags its tail with its heart. Martin Buxbaum We have had a lot of dogs through the years and each one stole our hearts. Rex, the Irish Setter, would catch mice and leave them by the door as a gift. Our poodle, Melody would go downstairs and jump on the bed when our […]
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Aging
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. Satchel Paige Bret Harte wrote, ‘We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.” The first time I read this I thought it was extraordinarily cynical. Of course, no one lives […]
Aging with Grace 