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If You Want to Get Old Gracefully, Make Young Friends
Tea ChestMy mother has moved remarkably smoothly from Independent to Assisted Living in her community in Seattle. A lot can be said for the community itself that has both types of living in the same...
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July Savoring
Now it’s high summer, the fig tree is full of huge leaves and small figs. At dinner time, light filters through the fig tree leaves, one leaf casting a shadow on another. Birds and deer are testing the...
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ruzuku.com – a System of Online Social Support for Change
Two friends of mine, Abe Crystal and Rick Cecil, are building ruzuku.com to be an online system for helping groups of people to work together on desired changes. According to their research, many...
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Reading Out Loud, Round 4
I’ve been using my blog to keep a log of the books I’ve read out loud to my husband over the past few years. This is the fourth posting. Click on this link to see the entire set. We’ve branched out,...
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Another Thanksgiving & Where the Acorn Sprouts
The year has flown by since last Thanksgiving. This year, we had a very quiet Thanksgiving Day with a placeholder meal for the Thanksgiving Feast. At my son’s suggestion, we decided to delay the turkey...
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Calming Someone Else Down
My daughter recently became very upset about her job. I found her stamping around the house in a terrible mood, making justifiable complaints. She plopped herself down on the couch saying, “I’m just...
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Self-Gratitude: Thank You to My Former Selves
I’ve been reading about gratitude again because that’s the topic of the second book in the Positive Psychology News Daily series. We’ve selected more than twenty articles. We’ve started editing. Kevin...
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A Beautiful Life Ends Beautifully
Marian My godmother, Marian, died last Saturday. It was both sudden and not sudden. She had been fine on Memorial Day when I called, but then a fall on Tuesday led eventually to her being moved to the...
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Man is born to trouble… but then what?
Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upwards, and that has ALWAYS been the case. But man can also be very ingenious about how to manage. Let me illustrate with examples from my circle of friends....
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2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 19,000...
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