Category: Inspirational
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Rabbits Everywhere!
The Rabbit Effect I just read the book The Rabbit Effect by Kelli Harding, MD, MPH. “Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness.” This book came out in 2019 and I stumbled across it in the library a couple of weeks ago. It was so interesting that I am now reading…
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Why I Blog
I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say. Flannery O’Connor I usually don’t have trouble figuring out what to write about. Many times I start out writing about one thing and it morphs into something else and I go with it because it also seems valid and something…
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Meditating Outside…in Winter
This morning I woke up early. It was a relatively mild winter morning for Pennsylvania. I bundled up and put a comforter on one of the rocking chairs on the front porch and did my morning meditation out there. In the spring, summer, and autumn it’s my usual place for morning meditations. It’s hard to…
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Welcome, New Year!
Birds start each new day with a song. I like to think that their song is extra melodious on the start of a new year. Some good advice for 2023 My first post of the year is short and sweet. First, I want to share some good advice I read in the NY Times yesterday…
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You are Love
While it’s sunny and humid at the moment, there’s a feeling of fall in the air…or like a new season is upon us. A good time to think about how I want to begin this new season. When I started writing this morning I began by lamenting on how imperfect I am and how difficult…
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Rocky Mountains, Hi!
Written by Brad I love to travel. It is thrilling to experience new and different locations and cultures. I’ve been lucky to have opportunities to travel throughout the U.S., for both work and pleasure, and about 11 months ago had the great pleasure of traveling abroad for the second time, experiencing the wonders of Italy,…
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The Piano Man Never Disappoints
Written by Brad With the superb Santana concert still fresh in our minds, Donna and I headed west for the next stop on our summer concert series. On the 4-hour drive to Pittsburgh we listened to every Billy Joel CD I owned to prepare ourselves for the night ahead and refresh our memories with his…
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Santana – Mystical Medicine Music
Written by Brad This past Saturday Donna and I attended a concert in Hershey to see Santana. I was very anxious to see Carlos Santana, someone who is on the Mount Rushmore of guitar players, at least in my opinion, and someone neither of us had ever seen. The 10-time Grammy winner and member of…
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Inspirational Quotes from Adams
Looking through an old folder, I found notes I wrote when I read McCullough’s book for the first time 10 years ago. I want to share them. First I want to share what I wrote then, “I’m really enjoying reading about the Presidents. Especially McCullough’s John Adams captured me. Adams’ earnestness, integrity, thin-skin, knowing that…
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