Merry Christmas Eve Eve
‘Twas two days before Christmas and here by the lake, with things still do to and a cheesecake to bake.
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A Rehabilitation Program That Works Both Ways
(photo from Ohio Wildlife Center.)
This is an oversimplification but it’s also true. There are many people in this world who haven’t found a purpose. They don’t know where they fit in or feel that they don’t. And lots of those people end up in prisons.
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Sepsis Awareness Still Needs Advocates
The last day of September is here. September is Sepsis Awareness Month and I certainly haven’t been nearly as vocal about it as I used to be.
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Grateful for My Lucky Life!
Gratitude does amazing things to the brain. It counteracts negativity bias. That’s the thought pattern that claims everything’s going to hell in a hand basket.
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The Many Ways Gratitude Makes Life Better
We mention gratitude, or its cousin “luck”, in this house every day, never taking our circumstances for granted. It’s Thanksgiving weekend for our friends in the US where being grateful is the order of the day. The challenge: to keep that perspective all year long.
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This is Sixty
SIXTY! Sixty??? Sixty. My birthday was on Saturday. It was Thanksgiving, the day I was born, October 8, 1962. My arrival put thoughts of turkey dinner on hold. A story I heard many times over the years.
…Merry Anni-birth-mas!
As we celebrate – in a row – our ninth anniversary, Derek’s birthday and Christmas, I’m bathed in gratitude.
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Thankful Thursday – On Being Grateful
Life is hard. Stuff happens that’s out of your control. People move, leave, die. You have to take your cat to the vet and not come back home with him. (Us, on Monday) But people also do amazing things for others with no other motivation than it’s the right thing to do, and it feels good. …
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