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For the fun of it

You’ve probably seen a dog in a big stretch, the kind that explains the yoga pose called Downward-Facing Dog. This weekend I got to witness a honey of a yellow lab who periodically just joyously drops and puts herself into Thread The Needle. I kid you not. Quite honestly, I am inspired. I now realize […]

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From seizing the day to setting the day

I used to make a to-do list every morning. That helped me organize my thoughts and my tasks for the day. It’s a great productivity tool. And I am really, really great at being productive. But it turned into a way that, for me, became unbalanced. It morphed into accomplishing more and more and more […]

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Working it over

The vacuum filter that I cleaned isn’t dry yet, so the vacuum cleaner won’t work; I can’t clean up the tracked-in sand. Both of us are drawing a blank as far as meals to plan this week; I can’t make an effective grocery list. The webinar recording isn’t loading this evening; I can’t watch that […]

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Efficiency is the killer of imagination

Very recently I read that “efficiency is the killer of imagination,” and for the life of me can’t recall from where or by whom. Chalk it up to the fact that I’ve been reading from a variety of written sources lately, and also that this idea struck me so hard I’ve been kind of in […]

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My surrender journey

My natural state of being is in my head. I think, a lot. Even when I don’t mean to. I’m not proud of this. In fact, it’s something I constantly try to overcome. There I go thinking again. I realized some time ago that I don’t always feel good about being so mental. It was […]

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