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Wishing you a Peaceful New Year
I don’t know of anything more important than a peaceful mind and heart. Peace isn’t boring. It’s a catalyst that makes possible greater depth and color. Greater meaning. Some years back, before we...
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You are loved
You are loved. Young or old, rich or poor, whatever your circumstances or your nationality, and regardless of whether you are religious or not – you are loved. Regardless of your foibles, you are...
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Finding our way when we lose our way
Life pulled the rug out from beneath Holly, a 4-year-old tortoiseshell cat, when she managed to get separated from her owners in early November at an RV rally in Daytona Beach, Florida. Holly was...
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We never outgrow our need for courage
We never outgrow our need for courage. I’ve been privileged to find many new friends since I started my blog nearly four years ago and one of them is a brave, generous-hearted woman named Tess...
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This wild, wonderful journey we call life
Aging has its downside, of course. Things go wrong. You wake up one day, like I did recently, and realize with horror and consternation that your sex drive has taken a tumble. It’s not quite what it...
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Have you changed your mind lately?
There’s a reason I chose a picture of a carnation to go with this post. It reminds me how important it is, especially as we age, to be able to change our mind when appropriate… Obviously, there are...
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Only one thing stands between you and your dream
Only one thing stands between you and the beautiful fulfillment that is your true destiny. It’s the toxic belief, inhaled from the very atmosphere around you when you were a child, that you are...
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The power of a declaration
In his cool book, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, T. Harv Eker makes an interesting distinction between an affirmation and a declaration. An affirmation, he points out, states that a goal we wish to...
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Invitation to Joy
“Most of all, we can decide to walk gently through this last great stage of life when everything begins to come together for us, to make sense, to have new meaning. We can simply sit and watch a...
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It’s Never Too Late to Live Your Dream
It’s never too late to live your dream and create a new future for yourself. As long as you are here, as long as you are still breathing, it doesn’t really matter what your age is – the dream that you...
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Be thankful for your body
I can’t help but be aware, as another birthday approaches, of the changes transpiring in this physical body that has been my home for more than 80 years. Goodness, is it my imagination? The font that...
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The Simple Pleasures of Life
I have a theory that goes something like this. The more we appreciate the simple pleasures of life the more balanced our lives become, and the stronger and happier we become. I’m going to use Cato as...
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How to Make the Impossible Possible: What Bold People Know and Do
Guest post by Tess Marshall, founder of The Bold Life blog. As soon as you set a big goal or go after a big dream, three things surface that stop most people: what ifs, fears and obstacles. These...
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It’s never too late to heal old wounds
Editor’s note: I had a mishap with my blog and lost some recent posts. Oh dear, and I was so proud of them too. I didn’t mean to break my mother’s heart when I left England as a young man to go to...
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Some things we can learn from Nature
Our wild bunny came home late yesterday. He – or is it she? – lives under the big blue spruce tree outside our front door and likes to take off every now and again, so that we don’t see him for three...
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Trayvon Martin’s life not in vain
Something good will come from Trayvon Martin’s life. His sad, lonely death will not be in vain. A spotlight has been shone on an area that surely needs more light. Whatever the rights or wrongs of the...
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Seeing money with new eyes
I’m so thankful for the privilege of aging. It’s giving me time to change my mind about money. I have to tell you it’s a change that is long overdue. So here’s what’s going on. I have an old,...
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In God’s good time
If you want to bring some extra pain into your life, insist that some particular project or process in which you are engaged must be finished by such and such a time. On the other hand, if you would...
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Are you feeling disillusioned with life?
Are you feeling a bit disillusioned with life? Is there a feeling somewhere deep inside you that life is too difficult and there is no real meaning or purpose to it? I have discovered, like many...
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There is always a way through
I sat down at my computer this sunny morning in Colorado – where floods have brought such havoc – to write a new post if possible. I’m sorry it has been several days since my last offering. I’ve been...
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