Tag: ELAN
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Quote of the Week…
“Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.” Tokugawa Ieyasu, 1543 – 1616
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Chill It…
In The Book of Good Habits, Dirk Mathison illustrates how small, daily steps make big differences long term. He reminds me to chill, learn new things, and take time for self-care. I especially like his suggestion to keep a bottle of champagne in the fridge. Be at the ready to celebrate any small triumph. What…
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Quote of the Week…
“Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.” Sylvia Earle, 1935 –
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One Step, Two Step…
Last week I went to the first ever Lit Crawl in my new hometown, even though that afternoon I just wasn’t feeling it. My reading chair was calling me ~ stay home and cozy up in me with your books, it said. I resisted because 99 percent of the times I’ve made myself step out…
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Mixta…
I have a group of friends who love to share food. I knew I had found my people the first time we passed plates to sample a bit of this, a bit of that. Life is like that appetizer mash-up, a random mix of tiny bits and bites, various happenings and jumbled emotions. It is…
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Setting Stones…
Today I am setting stones along an unknown path toward the arduous and no fun task of querying agents. It feels like rolling that Sisyphean rock up the slippery mountain. Push and push. Get knocked down. Repeat ad infinitum. No wonder I make an ugly face every time I say “query.” I procrastinate, for real…
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Communication Bugaboos…
It is an all too common story, a rift grows between siblings, often after the death of a parent. When it happened in my own family more than 30 years ago, I was shocked. But we were all grieving. Years passed and the space between communications grew and so did the chasm between loved ones.…
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Pity? Party of One?…
Why do the little things rankle us so? Big fears and challenges call into force our best selves. We are strong. Resilient. We can handle it. When I missed book club last week due to a more pressing need, it was hard to swallow. It was an accident, nobody’s fault, but I felt like a…
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Love Goes On…
Perhaps you have observed a magician holding a simple ball in his hand, but when he waves the other hand over it in an Abracadabra motion, it transforms into many balls. My brain knows there is a logical explanation for magic tricks but the rest of me doesn’t need to figure it out. That’s the…
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Quote of the Week…
“Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don’t worry about my destiny.” Carl Sandburg, 1878 – 1967
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