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I feel blessed to have the coolest friends evah. I just clicked over to my gal Jennifer’s blog, called Reminders 2 Be Present, and she’s showing the latest progress on her handmade wool bracelets. She’s an artist and teacher and makes beautiful, spiritual work that just inspires me to no end. As for these soft baubles, her…

My blog brother Rabbi Brad Hirschfield wrote a post this morning called “Senator Kennedy Did NOT “Lose” His Battle with Cancer.” Amen. I saw that New York Times headline myself today and it made me cringe.  It’s no secret that our culture is all about winning, but to essentially call someone who dies of cancer a loser? Oy. When I was…

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,…

Sigh. A while ago, my friend Jenn from the Tiny Choices blog expressed skeptism that SIGG bottles were all that safe, preferring to sip from glass or stainless steel. But I was like, “Oy, really? Another thing to worry about? But my SIGG is so pretty!” She said that SIGGs have a lining to keep the…

How much sleep do you get every night?  How much sleep do you need?  If there’s a major difference in the answers to those 2 questions, you might have an issue.  But how do you even answer the “need” question?  Studies have shown that people who get between 6.5 and 7.5 hours per night live…

As more years unfurl between us and the events of September 11, 2001, I’ve heard an increasingly louder cry each anniversary of “Enough!” Comments on Beliefnet and other sites say over and over that it’s “time to move on,” that we need to “get over it.” I hear that. Each year newscasters appear to be increasingly…

This morning the nation mourns the loss of Edward Kennedy, the “Lion of the Senate” whose 46-year career as a Massachusetts Senator is one of the most storied in its history.  Kennedy died of brain cancer late last night at age 77. Here at Fresh Living, I’m thinking about a couple of things this morning.…

The other day Holly posted on Five Ways to Have a Good Morning. Happily a bunch of you added some lovely thoughts, things like, silence, gratitude, prayer reading something you love, plus the things many of us try to do because it really would make life easier–reader Gwendolyn says her “I’ll do it lateritis” keeps…

Ok, first-off, if you are sensitive in a certain way about Christianity, this may offend you. That said, OMG this video is so funny and sweet. Having been raised in Quaker schools it’s extra-funny and great and familar. So many of us were Jews or demi-believers or non-believers, even though we loved all the Quaker…

Do you know Maggie Mason?  I don’t–at least not personally–but I love, luff, lurve her blog.  The guiding principle for her writing on design, shopping, marriage, parenthood, etc is the concept of “Mighty Life,” and more specifically her “Mighty Life List” of things that she wants to do before she goes. What I love about…
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