Tag: adventure
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Sunsets in Florida
I haven’t written for awhile because I was lucky enough to visit a friend in Florida. I’ve known her since before kindergarten and she moved there two years ago. Our moms were good friends too and so there’s a lot of history. I’ve been to Florida a handful of times over the years and have…
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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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Have You Hugged A Tree Lately?
I’ve read more than once that if you feel like you need to be grounded or if you can’t sleep at night, to go outside and hug a tree…just wrap your arms around it as best you can and for as long as you like. You will feel its energy and you will feel more…
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Preparing for Winter While Daydreaming of Florence
It’s been six months since I’ve returned from my two-month stint in Italy. I know that I’ve been lucky to be there as often as I have recently…three weeks last autumn and two months this past winter/spring….but the longing has returned. It has actually been quite beautiful around here of late with the autumnal leaves…
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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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Daydreaming of Boston…
Looking through our photos again, I decided to share a couple that didn’t make it into the other two pieces on Boston. I want to note that the featured photo on this post is Paul Revere and the Old North Church and the photos on the prior two posts are a view of the Harvard…
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Italy Again
It’s been awhile since I’ve written. I went to Italy for two months on a “networking tour” to see how feasible it would be to move there. Thankfully, I was able to continue my virtual sessions with clients. There are a couple of different roads one can take to spend more time in Italy, a…
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Art in Italy
‘One of the primary objects of the enlightened traveller in Italy is usually to form some acquaintance with its treasures of art. Even those whose usual avocations are of the most prosaic nature unconsciously become admirers of poetry and art in Italy. The traveller here finds them so interwoven with scenes of everyday life, that…
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