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Grief Again
On Sunday someone close to us (the girlfriend -soon to be fiance- of Brad’s son) unexpectedly lost her mother who was around our age. It brings home the preciousness of each day. While I don’t have anything new to say about grief, I wanted to write something. Some of the things already said about grief,…
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Food Edition
Our Chinese New Year meal turned out to be pretty tasty, if I do say so myself. Brad and my nephew, Brent, both appeared to enjoy the pork dumplings, shrimp stir-fry and the beer and wine. Brent talked about the many meals I made for him when I lived in Seattle and he would drive…
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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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Happy Holly Days!
I hope all of you are having a lovely holiday season filled with sweet surprises and acts of kindness – given and received. I was reminded on Christmas Day that gifts come in all shapes and sizes and that some of the best gifts are not wrapped. I trust you can all relate to that.…
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Holiday Blues
Holiday Blues I’m not talking about the blue strings of light I love so much and mentioned in my last post but rather the feelings of sadness, depression, melancholy, and sometimes desperation that many experience this time of year. I just read that Stephen tWitch Boss died by suicide two days ago and I feel…
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Some of my Favorite Christmas Things…
Christmas is a Sensual Time of Year To me, this time of year is very sensual. Sights, sounds, scents, textures, tastes … and nostalgia of Christmases past. Some of my favorite Christmas things are… Sounds of Christmas Music … Amy Grant’s Christmas cd’s…especially the song Tennessee Christmas from her first Christmas album. I get very…
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Criminal Justice Reform In The U.S.
U.S. Criminal Justice System I’ve been wanting to write something about the criminal justice system in the U.S. for quite some time now. It’s a lofty task as there is just so much information and statistics about it. But writing so often helps me organize what I already know and then I can more easily…
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