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Create a Beautiful Life

Create a Beautiful Life

How do you create a beautiful life? One simple moment at a time.

This personal credo poem was inspired by an activity shared by author Amanda Turner during a fundraising event for the Star Community Library. I decided to share it as part of my 67th birthday celebration this year. Sixty seven years of creating a beautiful life…

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A Walk with Gratitude

A Walk with Gratitude

Walking the grounds of gratitude,
I stumble upon the palace of happiness.” ~Brendon Burchard

Every day, a thousand things to be thankful for, yet I barely touch the heart of this we call gratitude.

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Harvesting Autumn Colors

Harvesting Autumn Colors

Tamaracks & golden trees,
The fire-like glory of autumn leaves.

Purple grapes, apples red & gold,
pumpkin patches, sunflowers so bold…

Misty morning skies turning brilliant blue.
Rainbows reflecting such glorious hues.

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Cherish Your Moments

Cherish Your Moments

A perfect rose, captured
in one simple moment of awe.

You may see the beauty of a rose.

What I remember is this: my growing-up grandson, strolling through the rose garden, his legs now longer than mine. His sweet smile, given & received. Joy that lingers. Love that blooms.

One simple moment, exquisite
as a perfect yellow rose.

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Be Still and Flow

Be Still and Flow

It may not make sense to talk about stillness and flow in the same breath, since flow means to move along in a steady stream, and stillness means to abstain from motion.

Is it even possible to move at a constant pace, or to stay perfectly still? Likely not, if you’re alive.

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Let’s Hygge the World

Let’s Hygge the World

Perhaps it’s my Scandinavian roots, or that my body has required extra care this year after meeting a hard patch of ice while gliding down the slopes of our local ski hill. Or it could be that the world seems to need extra comfort and joy after one of the most difficult years most of us can remember having…ever.

Whatever the reason, hygge is still on my mind

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Get Happy with Hygge

Get Happy with Hygge

A New Year is here, a New Dawn is blooming, and it feels like I should be writing something profound and significant. But after so many inspiring words given during the powerful inaugural speeches, what I really want to ask you is this:

Are you making time to hygge your life?

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Let Yourself Grieve

Let Yourself Grieve

This year has taken its toll on even the most positive minds. Whether or not we’ve been directly touched by COVID or politics or natural disasters or global warming, we are each impacted by the waves of loss, the tides of sorrow, the ripples of change.

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Pass the Gratitude, please

Pass the Gratitude, please

How many ways can I be grateful? Plenty. Even during a month and year that will go down in history as one of the most difficult & divisive for our nation and world.

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LOVE: a United State

LOVE: a United State

As we move into the final weeks before an election that has no possibility of uniting a divided nation, where in the world do we turn?

How did we even get here, this place where fear and anger are clogging the media, where good people are beginning to give up on living in a nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all?

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3 Essential Questions

3 Essential Questions

I’m writing this on a day that serves as a reminder that life can be fleeting and what-matters can shift in a moment.

Not that we need the reminder this year, when the whole world is getting a wake up call to tune into the essential. Still, some things bear repeating.

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Grow a Simple Life

Grow a Simple Life

It takes intention & persistence to focus on the beautiful and the good, and to grow a simple life in a world that seems to be only getting more complex. It isn’t simple to stay simple,

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Happiness Keys

Happiness Keys

It’s not easy to be happy when so many people are facing difficult times. Sometimes it’s even difficult to admit to being happily thriving when you know others are barely surviving.

But one thing the world needs right now is for us to hold a Frequency of Love, which partly means being willing to share our happiness, even in the midst of sadness, despair, anger, worry, fear.

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