Tag: Kindness
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Be the action
In 2018, Merriam Webster added a new word to the established dictionary: healthspan. While many of us focus on lifespan and awareness of the average years of age people live, how many consider just how many of those years are healthy? This is your healthspan. As one year draws to an end and another begins,…
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2024 Holiday Message
2024 was a year of healing. That also suggests that there must have been some injury. There was. After a December ’23 fall in a hotel room, my husband required surgery in 2024 to help put a foot with multiple fractures back into the assemblance of a foot. (Note to self: turn on the light,…
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Blindsided and brittle
Have you ever stopped something you started? Stupid question, I know. But I just did that very thing in the wee hours this morning. What is unusual about it is that it involved a walk in the woods. A walk in the woods congers up memories of the book and movie, A Walk in the…
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Considering Considerations: Metacognition
Thinking of the bravest things you have ever done probably brings you down many paths. Stop and think for a moment of those things or moments in your life that you would rate as brave. Just take a moment to think! I rate jumping out of a plane (although strapped to someone who knew what…
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Flow Revisited: Freedom within
One of my favorite books to read is, what I later learned, an anthropology text entitled, Millenium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World by David Maybury-Lewis. I didn’t say, “One of the favorite books I have read.” You see, it’s a book you can savor. You can pick it up and learn, and learn, and…
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Your Turn
A kind heart starts with an open mind the door of the Soul ajar every breath a new turn a rotation an open opportunity your turn your turn to begin anew spinning to see the world with open eyes eyes forthcoming never straining seeing always inward as well as out your open-hearted kind mind awaits…
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Welcome to the 21st Century
D.C. street artist, Mark Jenkins, stated, “Adventure is a path. Real adventure—self determined, self-motivated, often risky—forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled…
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It’s Okay, Despite All of the Questions
It’s easy to talk about moving on, about getting over loss, about losing weight and exercising. It’s a way of life: reminiscing about what we had while also wondering about what is to be. What exactly is “moving on” and letting go? While we can embrace that there is a huge difference between thinking about…
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