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Grandpa’s Boots

December 6, 2010 No Comments

GRANDPA’S BOOTS There are several times of year that many parents almost dread because at those times their budgets have to squeeze out a few more items than they truly can afford.  Yet they cannot afford to ignore them either. This holiday time is one of them.  Another time is a return to school in the fall and the return of winter when you learn that last year’s boots or coats no longer fit. This weekend we discovered our fourteen year old grandson who lives with his hardworking single dad, was ill prepared for walking in the snow.  And wet,

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Jogging Lessons

August 5, 2010 No Comments

Here I am, back at my favorite little park sitting at a picnic table in the shade.  I am munching on corn chips and hummus.  People from a local corporation are taking their lunch-time run.  It is very humid. It is funny because I was already planning to write to you about yesterday’s run of my own.  (With me you need to interpret the word “run” to mean a very fast walk or slow jog.) It is amazing how jogging your body also jogs your memory and your creativity. That is . . . until the only thing you start

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Can Nature Lower Your Stress Level?

May 17, 2010 No Comments

Last week I spent a fair amount of time in local cafés, thinking, writing and observing  people of all ages and stages of life.   It put me in a philosophical frame of mind and when that happens I start wondering about life’s mysteries . . . mostly about human nature. Huge numbers of us are struggling with high stress levels and we need moments to renew. We want to reconnect with our deeper core, our Essential self, but ignore the tug to take time. Mother Nature Puts Things in Perspective Mother Nature is Big Sometimes something in nature speaks

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