Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!
— Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
And we’re off… on the rush to get from Thanksgiving to Christmas and get everything done that needs to be done. Somehow, we need to shove 8 weeks of shopping, cooking, entertaining, partying and traveling all into the four weeks between the two holidays.
I suppose that there is some comfort in the hurley-burley of racing around and getting things done. It helps us to not notice that our nest is empty or our parents have gone. If we’re busy focused on the tasks, maybe we won’t Continue reading » Dang, It’s the Holidays!
How quickly the wondrous becomes the worry!
Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!
— William Wordsworth
There are moments that smack you in the face with their magnificence and my first glorious glimpse of the bright purple Morning Glories cascading over my neighbor’s stucco-ed wall, well, they WOW’d me!
Each morning as I embarked upon my “hill walk” challenge, I admired the beauties and noted their increasing abundance. And then I missed Continue reading » Morning Glories!
The best thinking has been done in solitude.
— Thomas Alva Edison
I am on vacation this week. The only responsibilities I have are investing and writing posts for the blog. (WHAT, you take a vacation and don’t work??!!!) As part of pampering myself, I’m catching up on Charlie Rose. Five nights a week, Charlie invites someone interesting, or famous, or powerful or sometimes all three at once, to his table and has a conversation with them. The Social Animal
by David Brooks had just been published and Brooks was doing his book tour. Hence, he was Charlie’s guest for the hour. (I don’t mean to be overly familiar but I’ve been watching Charlie for sooooo long that I figure I can call him by his first name.)
The Social Animal is fiction, based on Continue reading » Speaking Up for the Introvert
Is today the day you reach out?
If someone you know is weighing on your mind and needs a friend on the end of that other line, don’t hesitate. What you say may seem so small but who knows, they might be glad you called. So make the call.
— Lyrics from The Call
by Matt Kennon, Jeremy Campbell and Noah Gordon
Early Friday morning, despite a very tight and demanding schedule I squeezed in a quick trip to an estate sale. Even as I tried to talk myself out of it, I drove across town to see if the furniture I’d seen in the Craigslist.org ad might be something I’d like and could afford. And because of this side trip that I shouldn’t have been making, I had a serendipity encounter that I later realized was probably a Continue reading » Is Today the Day?
Is your crowd helping you be more resilient?
It’s the lazy days of summer and feeling a bit lazy myself, it’s taken me a little while to figure out that I’m not really going anywhere. I’m busy enough, but I’m not making progress. In fact, I feel way too busy and way too unproductive.
Continue reading » Making Friendly Choices
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