Tag: ELAN
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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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A Blog Break…
As we approach the thick of it in this moving process (calendar thick with last goodbye dinners of various groups, rooms thick with stacked boxes, brain thick with…well, just thick), there will be a brief break between these blog posts. I’ll pick them back up mid-July or so, maybe sooner as I will be itching…
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Quote of the Week…
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” Walt Disney, 1901 – 1966
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A Post Revisit on Seventeen Minutes…
The following was previously posted in March, 2023. I hope you enjoy the rerun (as I continue to pack and prepare for a move). What brings you joy? What would you choose to do if you were magically given two extra hours one week? For me it would be active music (passive music is always…
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Quote of the Week…
“If a dog manages and directs a thousand sheep, it is not because of the genius of the dog, but because of the sheep’s folly!” Mehmet Murat Ildan, Turkish playwright, 1965
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Wool Gathering…
Wool gathering gets a bad rap. The phrase has come to mean mindless daydreaming. It is derived from an ancient practice of gathering bits of wool left behind on fences and bushes by grazing sheep which would yield little reward from a handful of tufts. Here I picture a proper young woman from the era…
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Opposite Land…
Mini fantasies can be pretend visits to unknown worlds that satisfy some interior itch. Recently I thought about spending a day in Opposite Land, turning nagging complaints into expressions of joy. But Opposite Land is all-inclusive. Every switch is toggled to the other side, not just a chosen few like in the child’s Opposite Day…
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