Years ago, my mom and her friends held a summer solstice party, where my twelve year old self danced until the very tardy moon arrived, loving every minute of the nature-inspired celebration. The summer solstice occurred (for my area) last month, and I still delight in the fact that people all over the world take […]
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Below is this week’s installment of positive life quotes. As always, you can find all of the quotes in the Positive Life Quotes section of the blog. “Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.” ~Bruce Lee “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” ~Edmund Hillary “Believe
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Below is this week’s installment of positive life quotes. As always, you can find all of the quotes in the Positive Life Quotes section of the blog. “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson “You are never given a wish without also being given the power
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Do you remember that time in your life when everything had a sense of newness to it, and the world was a place to wonder about and explore? There are only a few, brief years in childhood when kids are old enough to create their own fun and young enough to let themselves do it,
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We encounter all sorts of people in our lives. Some are friendly and open, while others are rude and want nothing to do us. While we can get by without communicating with some of these people when they are just passers-by, we don’t have that option when they are our friends, co-workers, or even our
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My family is in the process of buying our first home. We have had an interesting few months of it, and when a friend called my husband recently and asked how he was doing, my husband shared our news and then got ready to vent about it – about the “great investment” we almost made
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Last month I wrote about mindfulness, the practice of being fully aware in the present moment. I work on being mindful every day, because it really takes a conscious (and sometimes immense) effort to be fully immersed in what I’m doing. I play with my children and remind myself to pay attention to their words
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It’s a fact that most of us don’t get enough sleep every night. For whatever reason, we think that neglecting sleep is the smart thing to do, in order to get the things done that we need to get done. But neglecting sleep actually makes us less productive. Not only that, but not getting enough
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