Posts Tagged: living

Constructive Living

September 28th, 2015
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sydney

 

So I find myself in an emotional place where I constantly feed my soul and busy brain with positive thoughts about life and the people that I care about.

I also am working on centering myself through mediation and am learning the value of breathing.

And I pray all the time: in the morning when I wake up, in the car, at work, at the grocery store and before I fall asleep.

Yet several frustrating situations in my personal life continue to happen.

Over and over again.  Even when I try to take regular breaks from the stress of them.… Read More

Summer Squirt

June 27th, 2014
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On the last Friday in June, here’s something to think about:    The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and with out fear for newer and richer experience                             ~   Eleanor Roosevelt… Read More

The Quiet Gift

December 11th, 2013
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“Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention […] a loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than most well-intentioned words.”             ~ Rachel Naomi Remen… Read More

Revisiting Maurice Sendak

January 16th, 2013
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Maurice Sendak is known as an internationally renowned prize-winning children’s book author and illustrator but he also has a message for adults too. When children read his most famous book, “Where The Wild Things Are,” they run around and play as if they are monsters, just like the ones in Sendak’s book.  Spontaneously and instantly, children enter Sendak’s world with love and abandon. Adults may want to join the children in their play but their “adultness” sometimes holds them back.  “Oh, that’s a child’s book” or “I can’t play like that” or “I shouldn’t play like that” are some of… Read More