Monthly Archives: December 2007
A New Year, A New World
It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy…let’s go exploring! —Calvin to Hobbes The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. –Marcel Proust 2007 was a year of exploration, discovery and adventure for … Continue reading
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2007–A Year of Adventure
The picture above is of my daughter’s dogs, with two enormous bones we bought them when we visited in 2006. They looked a bit overwhelmed when they first saw the bones, but as I wrote in About Jean, they got … Continue reading
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Finding Our Inner Light
This little light of mine I’m going to let it shine…. I’m not going to make it shine… I’m going to let it shine Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. — Negro Spiritual One of our favorite … Continue reading
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Lighting a Single Candle
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. –Chinese Proverb A week or so ago there was an interesting random acts of kindness story on the evening news. Apparently at a drive-through window one customer … Continue reading
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Peace, Love and Joy
This is always a peaceful time of year for us. Our daughter is grown now, but even when she was little our Christmases were low-key and meaningful. Mostly we only exchange presents with one another and with our daughter and … Continue reading
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Having the Sense That God Gave the Goose
I’ve been browsing the photos at Flickr the past few days, looking for some bright, cheerful images to counteract the dark and somber ones of the future that have been haunting my mind lately. birdyboo’s pictures of geese were more … Continue reading
Posted in Lifelong Learning, Optimizing Stress
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Are You Spending Enough Time "Doing Nothing"?
So you see, imagination needs moodling — long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. –Brenda Ueland All of man’s troubles come from his inability to sit alone, quietly, in a room, for any length of time. –Blaise Paschal To be … Continue reading
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What I Learned From Sending My Aikido Partner Through A Plate Glass Window
My Friends All Thought I Was Crazy My friends thought I was crazy for signing up for an aikido class. I mean, I was never that good at somersaults as a kid, and the idea of me doing a graceful … Continue reading
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Holy Curiosity
Picture Taker 2 Creative Commons license. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous … Continue reading
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Finding and Creating New Role Models
Children learn a lot in their early years by observing and mimicking their parents. My husband, daughter and I still chuckle about the time we were at the dinner table, with Kaitlin in her youth chair. Suddenly she started making … Continue reading
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