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Wishing You Enough in 2010

December 31, 2009
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Whether you’re ringing in the new year surrounded by family or at a fashionable party with a flute of champagne and the familiar stains of Auld Lang Syne, I wish you a wonderful evening tonight and just enough passion, meaning, and inspiration to make 2010 special!

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Give Yourself a Break

December 21, 2009
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In this fast paced world, taking the time to linger over a meal can be rare and getting away from your responsibilities often seems next to impossible. We say that that “time is money” and use the language of finance and business when talking about it. We worry about wasting, budgeting, and investing our time, and we run from one thing to the next.

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Growing Arugula As Metaphor

October 26, 2009
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I began learning to grow some of my own food last year when I first moved into my new house and had a backyard in which to experiment. I had early success at growing vegetables from transplants (a young plant from a nursery), especially arugula. Its short growing time, frequency of harvest, and versatility as an ingredient made arugula my new runaway favorite during that first season.

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Escape from Cubicle Nation

October 21, 2009
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While I wasn’t quite prepared to talk about Cultivated Living then, the workshop was the push I needed to start talking about it. There’s plenty more that I learned from reading Escape from Cubicle Nation and attending the workshop, but this has made a huge difference.

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15 Tips for Adding Beauty to Your Life

October 8, 2009

Here are my 15 tips for adding a little beauty to your life inexpensively. Enjoy!

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Finding Flow

October 3, 2009
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Finding Flow is the kind of non-fiction I love to read – informative and ACTIONABLE! It’s easy to make real changes in your life based on the overarching idea of increasing the number of flow experiences by increasing the amount of active v. passive leisure activities you pursue

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How Do You Spend Your Leisure Time?

September 22, 2009

“Having leisure at one’s disposal does not improve the quality of life unless one knows how to use it effectively,” which is NOT an innate skill. Without this skill, leisure can actually be potentially dangerous to mental and physical health!

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Being Still: A Prerequisite for Good Change

September 13, 2009
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In this modern world, activity and movement are the default modes, if not with our bodies then at least with our minds, with our attention. We rush around all day, doing things, talking, emailing, sending and reading messages, clicking from browser tab to the next, one link to the next. We are always on, always connected, always thinking, always talking.

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