Monthly Archives: July 2007
Trashing Happiness
Tim Ferriss suggests that we begin thinking with more precision and that a good start would be to avoid using these 10 words: 1. Happiness 2. Success 3. Should 4. Responsible 5. Realistic 6. Reasonable 7. Spiritual 8. Good/Right 9. … Continue reading
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Honoring Resistance
Colleen Wainright, the communicatrix, is presently participating in a 30-day hypnotherapy experiment and describing it on her blog. Her therapist, Greg Beckett, is apparently using psychosynthesis to find her subpersonalities and help her to get them to work together as … Continue reading
Posted in Lifelong Learning, Patience
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It’s Harry Potter Time!
I’ve spent a lot of time on Harry Potter lately: Last week I was Assistant Headmistress at Hogwarts LA, This weekend my husband and I both read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and Today we went to see the … Continue reading
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Hogwarts LA
It’s been a fun week. For the third year in a row I was “assistant headmistress” at the local Hogwarts (Harry Potter) one-week vacation school. The school was 1-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, plus an overnight Friday night and Saturday … Continue reading
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Valuing Happiness
In Notes on How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy, Hugh Prather writes about why he thinks it’s important to be happy. “We are either throwing our emotional weight into the balance of fear and anger or … Continue reading
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Laughter, the Best Medicine
“Laughter rises out of tragedy, when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.” —Erma Bombeck “He who laughs, lasts.”–Norwegian saying “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.” –Proverbs … Continue reading
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The Daily Puppy
I tend to wilt in hot weather, so I’m doing a couple of things to keep my spirits up. The first is to make sure I laugh out loud at least once a day. The second was subscribing to The … Continue reading
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A Lesson From Harry
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m listening again to the first six books of the Harry Potter series. I’ve just started the fifth book, The Order of the Phoenix, which until I read John Granger’s Unlocking Harry Potter … Continue reading
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Warming Our Hearts
The picture on the left was taken by Aaron Honey at our local animal shelter. He takes pictures for the local Friends of the Shelter website. And he sends me copies to include in the weekly musical slide show I … Continue reading
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Lifelong Learning
The picture on the left was taken when my daughter was a baby. She couldn’t read at the time, of course. She was just mimicking her parents. It’s one of my favorite pictures because I believe a commitment to lifelong … Continue reading
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