Daily Joys and Simple Pleasures

I listened to my friend as she railed.  Complained. Yes – whined.  And expressed anger at the utter unfairness of it all.  What was she talking about?  The Weather.   It’s backwards!  It’s all wrong!  It’s not fair! Across the world people are encountering weather patterns way off the grid of what is regionally normal.  Here…

Wild and inviting, is She.   “By the Sea…an easy home is found.”  mar

Compassion. Kindness. Both are qualities that increase in capacity by exercise.  The more you demonstrate these qualities the stronger their expression becomes in your life The Practiced Pause.  This is a tool I use  and teach on.  It only takes a pause, a few seconds, to move from REACTION to purposeful RESPONSE.  Words have a…

MAGIC: every crevice of our day is stuffed with mystery, unknown capacities and magic that is not fully understood.  mary anne radmacher  

What’s Your PERSONAL “Dow Jones” Average? I remember the arguments with CFO, Gene Rager, as vividly as if they were yesterday.  He posited that labor was the only thing worth anything: of any monetary value whatsoever.  Every attempt I made to thwart his position was handily rebutted. Labor hours in industrial measuring terms.  Or, in…

to tell you this.”  You can see and order all these new pieces on my author site: maryanneradmacher.net  

“How do you DO it?” she demanded. Her tone was a mix of incredulity and anger.  I didn’t know what to say.  I remained silent, anticipating she would tip her hand a bit further with the opportunity.  Indeed, she did. “You are going through H@% and yet you just keep on.  Every day I look…

August is the gentle nudge at your shoulder in case you have been sleeping through your 2011 years of dreams and visions and aspirations. “Wake up! C’mon,wake up,” is the voice of August stirring you in to a certain realization.  If 2011 is a bank balance (and time is truly our only valued commodity when…

The country road crew has an ambitious project before them.  So much road repair and only a small window of perfect weather in which to do it. These are hard working professionals.  Their equipment is top notch. They have decades of experience bewteen them on each road crew.  Fact. This morning as I drove past…


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