Category Archives: Lifelong Learning
Don’t Forget to Breathe
I had my annual eye exam last week and was reminded of a simple success story. I used to have trouble with getting my eye pressure checked. I would dutifully look at the spot she indicated, but as the tonometer … Continue reading
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How to Stay Happy Always
bikehikebabe sent me these words of wisdom from the internet: How to Stay Happy Always 1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them, this is why you pay them. 2. … Continue reading
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A Gift From Our Driveway
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. —Albert Einstein When I say “driveway” in the title I don’t mean the pavement in our apartment complex… … Continue reading
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Taking Time to Help
An AP picture by Mark Pardew of a koala bear injured in the Victorian brush fires is going around the internet. The bear is drinking water from a bottle offered by a local firefighter and its paw is resting on … Continue reading
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Whatever…
Conrad over at Levered Intelligence has two recent posts (The Hand Position Is Everything and You Call This a Conversation???) about people who try to dominate an interaction instead of having a real conversation with others. I used to get … Continue reading
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Life Is For the Birds Revisited
I used this picture without the labels in When Life Is For the Birds. It has even more meaning for me now. Update: This post was written before President Obama excoriated the financial executives for being so greedy. Maybe there … Continue reading
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Tempting Fate?
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. — John Dryden (1631 – 1700) Dryden lived through his share … Continue reading
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Life is Uncertain
That was the saying on a T-shirt I wore at work when our division was downsizing. As I wrote in What I Learned From Being Downsized, it was scary time but also one of the happiest of my life. In … Continue reading
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Treat Yourself to a Cup of Warmth
My husband has been getting the Wall Street Journal for years. He reads most of it…I look at the headlines and will read an article or two of special interest. It’s one way I keep in touch with people who … Continue reading
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Another Year Down the Tubes?
One of my all-time-favorite birthday cards was from Peanuts: Linus: Don’t think of it as just another birthday! Think of it as another year spent mastering the intricacies of a rewarding and demanding life! Snoopy: Well, that sounds better than … Continue reading
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