I came across this proverb that I’d never heard before: “No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.” Labor Day weekend, the official (if not celestial) end of summer, is a good time to think about endings and beginnings, isn’t it?  Especially since the back-to-school beginning crispness of fall…

There’s something about the end of summer that makes me think wistfully about sunshine.  True, autumn sunshine is gorgeous–and maybe my favorite kind–but after that comes (sorry) winter and its dearth of Vitamin D.  So in celebration of the summer sun as we wind down the season, here are some quotes about sunshine: “Three things…

As you read this, I am literally on vacation, but if you’re going about your usual daily routine in a non-vay-cay-way, I wonder if you might like to try putting on “vacation mind” this morning to see if it can bring some relaxation into your day. After all, I think it was Milton Berle who…

Later today, I’m driving out to outer Cape Cod for vacation, but first I have a stop to make–in Hyannis.  The fact that just as I’m arriving, the funeral procession carrying Senator Ted Kennedy’s body is leaving is a coincidence.  But I feel like the stop elevates my trip, in that through a banal errand,…

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