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  • Summer Memories

    And so with sunshine and the great burst of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning all over again with summer. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby As sometimes happens, what I started to write this week and what I am…

    June 12, 2025

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    Aging, Biography
    childhood, F. Scott Fitzgerald quote, Northwoods resorts, nostalgia, summer living
  • Juggling Time

    How did it get to be so late so soon? Dr. Seuss Today,I feel as disjointed as this installation by Jonathan Saiz. I have been away from home for at least part of the last five days. This morning, I faced what seemed like an impossible job. I had a planner filled with tasks I…

    June 5, 2025

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    Aging, Inspiration, Lifestyle
    Aging, choices, Dr. Suess quote, juggling time, planning, retirement, thinking outside the box
  • Unpacking Life’s Baggage

    I know this is bad for me. I just don’t realize it. Barbara Shermund When I first heard this quote by New Yorker cartoonist, Barbara Shermund, I immediately understood what she meant about something being a bad idea and plowing ahead regardless of intuition. It struck a chord in me, as it highlighted a common…

    May 29, 2025

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    Aging, Inspiration, Psychology
    Aging, Barbara Shermund quote and bio, intuition, life’s baggage, Winston Churchill quote
  • Embracing Patience

    Church of the Annunciation at the Chronicles of Georgia monument Tbilisi, Georgia I hate waiting for anybody. It always makes me rather cross. I am not punctual myself, I know. But I do like punctuality in others. Oscar Wilde My son took the photo of the church, while visiting Georgia. I sympathize with the dog.…

    May 22, 2025

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    Aging, Inspiration, Lifestyle
    Aging, cultivating patience, Oscar Wilde quote, spiritual growth, waiting
  • Influence

    I believe that, more than anything else, the grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps us from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can’t write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout…

    May 15, 2025

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    Inspiration, Lifestyle, Social Commentary
    Ann Patchett quote, ann-patchett, Bel Canto, book-review, Books, fiction, forgiving ourselves, influence of authors, self critique, writing
  • Limitations

    Arvada, Colorado Kite Festival I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience…

    May 8, 2025

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    Aging, Social Commentary
    Accessing Limitations, Aging, Negative Messaging, Sterotypes, Sylivia Plath quote
  • A New Day

    Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson…

    May 1, 2025

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  • Acceptance

    The older I get the more I believe the greatest kindness is acceptance. Christina Baker Kline I have a love-hate relationship with the tree shading our balcony. Every spring its buds burst into brilliant green leaves. Soon the tree blossoms into fragrant white flowers, snowing tiny petals unto our patio furniture for days. This creates…

    April 24, 2025

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    Inspiration
    acceptance, balance, Christina Baker Kline quote, seasons, trees
  • Reflections on Aging

    I don’t believe in aging. I believe in altering one’s aspect to the sun. Virginia Woolf I am approaching another birthday and reflecting on how rapidly years disappear. We eventually arrive where we were headed from the beginning. Aging is inevitable. The conundrum of aging came onto the horizon, once again, while attending a Neighborhood…

    April 17, 2025

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    Aging, Inspiration, Lifestyle, Social Commentary
    Attitude and acceptance, Choosing our own path, Growing old with grace, Virginia Woolf quote
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