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It is a big sky and all around the wind is blowing.There is not a cloud in the sky and all around the edge of this islandthe sea is lapping and pushing and crashing.I close my eyes.  The desk and keyboard and stacks disappear and I stand on a path and listen to what the…

As I considered the weight of current events, I promised myself to live to the absolute outer edge of my capacity for kindness.  My own personal response to the many angry words being tossed about and the harshness of so many actions, this very day, in our world. Being willing to be EXTRA kind was…

The inside cover of my personal January Journal features a thank you card from my friend, Gina.  It’s there to remind me how important it is to articulate thanks.  Beginning with an internal attitude of thankfulness to verbalizing gratitude for courtesy, kindness, gift and actions.  I have sent a quantity of “thank you” expressions out…

I recently promised myself that once each week I would go through a drawer, a box, a bin, a basket…and re-visit the “stuff.”  Share. Sell.  Give. Re-use, re-purpose, re-cycle or (gasp, last option) throw it away. At the bottom of today’s rather weighty drawer that has been sorted (see first paragraph) I was delighted to…

How would your life change if one day, JUST FOR ONE DAY, you gave your highest and best effort to ABSOLUTELY Everyone and Everything? Imagine.  Think on that. Then…ponder, what would happen in America if everyone made a Best and Highest Effort commitment for one full day. Yes, indeed.  Just imagine…

What would your day look like if you were aware of constructing it with one grateful thought at a time? 

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.   Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.                –  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe –   Imagine my surprise to find a small box from a jeweler whose work I so admire but have never met – BB Becker.  He partners powerful words with beautiful…

As you join me on my journey you will discover that at the beginning of each week  I draw a variety of words to inspire and instruct me.  Today, the first day of a writing process I guide called Focus Phrase™, I draw the word “teacher.”  The angel accompanying that word is the angel of…

Most often people think of, “I love you.” Equally important, between friends, is “I remember you.”  Every day I weave at least one friend in to my experience by telling them how I’ve been reminded of them or something that has happened that made me think of them. “I remember you,” has so much meaning…
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