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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 I like to use to compose my posts appears smaller to me today than usual but that can’t really [...]

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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 brought with you when you came into the world is calling to you still, [...]

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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 sunset, since we are not rushing home through traffic as the sun goes down.” – Joan Chittister, [...]

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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 achieve is already happening – a notion that our mind may resist. “This is BS,” a voice in our head may mutter. [...]

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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 somehow flawed and imperfect. The world got its hooks into you at an early age, a very early age, and there was nothing [...]

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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 times when changing our mind isn’t appropriate. I’m glad, for instance, that the British people refused to change their [...]

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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 used to be. What? A test shows that my testosterone level is only 101, when the normal range [...]

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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 Marshall. Tess helps people overcome their fear. As founder of The Bold Life, she has created an interactive online course [...]

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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 lost, alone and 200 miles from her home in West Palm Beach. But as the New York Times reported, she found her way [...]

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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 loved. I say this with some confidence because none of my own foibles has succeeded in changing the unchanging nature of [...]

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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 married, JoAnn and I visited a friend named Grant in Arizona. He’s a clinical psychologist. It was a fun visit. One day, besides showing us around some local [...]

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Be still

“All I have to do is to be still.” I wonder how many times I have said those words to myself. They are words that never fail to bring me comfort and assurance that the next step, whatever it may be, will surely reveal itself at the appropriate time. It’s the only way I know [...]

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The joy of a “victory in place”

You are not alone in this world even though you may sometimes think you are. You have allies both visible and invisible who will give you the guidance and support you need and help you achieve your dreams. Two of these allies are persistence and flexibility. I want to write about them and honor them in this post [...]

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What will guide your vote?

I’m not quite sure why I feel so passionately engaged in the election now nearing its conclusion here in the United States. After all, I’m not a citizen of this country. I was born in Great Britain, and lived most of my life in Canada, until I moved to Colorado to marry a wonderful woman named [...]

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Be still and know

I’ve discovered in my own life, through hard lessons sometimes, that wisdom is always present with us. It’s always available. Not the wisdom that comes from books, though that can be helpful. And not the wisdom that may be articulated by others, though we may be grateful for that too. What I want to honor here is [...]

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