Category Archives: Living Fully

Don’t Forget to Replenish the Source

What this world needs is for the strong people to become more loving and the loving people to become stronger. –Piero Ferrucci Stay curious and open to life. No matter what happens keep learning and growing. Find what you love … Continue reading →

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Finding and Bringing Joy

These three pictures are of Clyde, a red heeler mix at the local animal shelter. This first picture was taken when he first got dumped at the shelter…left overnight at the door, crammed in a crate with a female red … Continue reading →

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Looking, Learning, Opening Up to Life

  Stay curious and open to life. No matter what happens keep learning and growing. —The Cheerful Monk Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as … Continue reading →

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Stay Curious and Open to Life

Stay curious and open to life. No matter what happens keep learning and growing. Find what you love to do and find a way to share it with others. —The Cheerful Monk I’ve just gotten back from a vacation…without even … Continue reading →

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Rediscovering the Magic

It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy…let’s go exploring! –Calvin to Hobbes I’ve used this quote already… twice. And I’ll no doubt use it again, because that’s one of the main things this site is about…how to regain that sense … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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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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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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