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I just returned from 2 weeks in Ireland. A 2020 trip that became victim to Covid. Finally, time moved along far enough for me and my friend to get aboard a trans-Atlantic flight to fulfill that travel promise. This will not be a daily log of those days (I had a fabulous
Continue reading Jet Lag as A Dimension
Having celebrated my annual birth date last month, I’ve been spending more time thinking of the life I have already lived. Memories of family vacations, friends from different parts of my life, places I visited and made my home, events that have lodged in my head. They form a find of “infrastructure” from
Continue reading Mapping Our Mind Time
My mother was not a great cook, but she did teach me to sew. I didn’t realize until I was forced into Home Ec class in junior high (I was a girl, shop class not an option), that most of my female classmates were clueless about threading a needle, let alone manipulating a
Continue reading Fatto a mano – Home Made
Somewhere along the continuum of my yearly life I began to set deadlines motivated and triggered by the season changes. I haul my Christmas tree outdoors in January as a shelter for the birds during cold, blustery winter days, but I cut off a few small twigs of pine needles to put in
Continue reading Generating
Resilience / Optimism
Resilience: 1) the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; 2) the ability to spring back, elasticity
Optimism: 1) attitude reflecting a belief or hope for a positive, successful or desirable outcome; a trait that fosters resilience
As we enter my second least favorite month
Continue reading My February Canvas
We have a wonderful singer/songwriter here in Kansas City. Joy Zimmerman has been keeping her music alive all through this pandemic with videos, newsletters and outdoor house concerts. It also gave her the inspiration to compose new work and record a CD, “The Canvas Before Us” ( now available from her website joyzimmermanmusic.com).
Continue reading The Canvas Before Us (Joy Zimmerman)
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Vocally challenged
As one who is “vocally challenged”, Riva’s patience and humor encourages me. I recently gave an hour talk without a microphone and was not only heard in the back of the room, but was able to finish as strong as I started. Sheryl
Quote of the DayExperience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley
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