Keeping Your Focus:a Happiness Project
Rubin, Gretchen (2009). The Happiness Project. New York: Harper. ISBN: 9780061583254 I seem to have a lot in common with Gretchen Rubin. Writing. Living in an urban setting. A tendency to be irritable. Would usually rather read than do almost anything else. A sense of wasting my life, letting small details of getting through the day [...]
Putting Your Life On a Green Diet
Uliano, Sophie. (2009). The Gorgeously Green Diet: How to Live Lean and Green. New York: Dutton. ISBN: 978-0-525-95115-5. The title implies a diet book, but it is much more than the typical diet book. It has the usual suspects: eating plans, nicely exercises, allowed and not allowed foods. But the book expands the idea of [...]
My Mission Statement
I am at my best when creative, organizing, contributing, smiling, curious. I will create beauty, collaborations, dreams. I will listen to the songs of others, my intuition, nature, my body. I will have music stories, friendship, color, laughter. [...]
At the Crossroads, I Found the Perfect Little Book
Patchett, Ann (2008). What Now? New York: Harper Collins. By the time we reach adulthood, many have perfected the art of isolation, of being careful, of not listening in the name of safety. But the truth is that we need to hear other people, all people, especially in those moments when we don’t know exactly [...]
Arrival of the Holiday Spirit
The holiday spirit doesn’t just automatically appear on the same schedule for me each year. I try, though; usually I put up the Christmas tree and decorations on Thanksgiving Day. I started that process this year, but my heart wasn’t in it. Some technical difficulties with the tree lights delayed the decorations a few days, [...]
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