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“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen “Perseverance is the hard worl you do after getting tired of the hard work you did.” – Newt Gingrinch “Aging qrinkles the body, quitting wrinkles the soul.” – Douglas…

This mesmerizing timelapse video follows Christoph Rehage as he walks 4,500 km across China over the course of a year…and grows the mop of hair and impressive beard to prove it.  Today is the “first day back” for many of us whose vacations ended with Labor Day weekend, so the video (which I discovered via…

This weekend in the midst of all the chanting at Omega Institute’s Ecstatic Chant Festival, when I wasn’t dancing, I was writing. There’s something about kirtan that makes me scribble–it shakes up so much stuff (fears, joys, doubts, dreams, longings) that it must come out through booty-shaking, tears, words spoken and drawn. Here are a few…

I just got back from Omega Institute’s Ecstatic Chant festival. And OMG. I don’t know where to begin. I’ll be doing a series of posts on it (sorry if chanting isn’t your thing! check out our great archives on Fresh Living if it’s not). But I have that wonderfully juiced, alive feeling that comes from…

The week-after-Labor-Day may or may not be a time of getting back to work or school after a break, but it’s definitely a good time to think about changes–of seasons, of jobs, of grades, of life.  How do you handle change? Here’s a great tip from our gallery of 10 Ways to Handle Change: You…

As you eat your morning fruit I thought you might appreciate this fun, smile-inducing pear-project. I love how they were grown this way, so peaceful on their trees. If you’re going to “modify” food, this is the way to go. The quote that went with this post, originally from Boing Boing: “Growing pears inside a…

My dad, Bob Reiss, just published a timely new book, “Bootstrapping 101: Tips to Build Your Business with Limited Cash and Free Outside Help.” A lifetime entrepreneur, he’s been involved with creating about 16 businesses–everything from marketing the TV Guide trivia game back in the trivia-obsessed 80s to selling personalized brass thingies to running a watch…

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…

This weekend I’m looking forward to going up where it’s green and leafy and getting my hammock on. Yay. Then I’ll go swimming. Another favorite place to be, in delicious fresh water. The Beliefnet Community is holding a photo contest on just this thought–you can send in pictures of your favorite places–your bedroom, a cafe…

For your calm, slightly-cheesy-but-nice, waking enjoyment.
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