Raise your expectations. There’s much to see in Twentynine Palms. You might have been told that Twentynine Palms is in the middle of nowhere, not far from Death Valley. This is not completely true. Here are restaurants, hotels, banks, a library, Starbucks …the town has all the comforts of home, really. The desert architecture takes […]
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“The way you spend your morning has an outsized effect … “ Benjamin Spall While my evening routine really was just created this spring, my morning routine began more than 25 years ago. It began because I could not “do” my life unless I got my head clear before everyone else got up. As a
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Having a good evening routine helps you get to sleep, stay asleep, and wake up ready for the new day. But for a long time, I viewed evening as a kind of “free for all time” when I would do whatever I thought would be fun. Too often I would be clicking around on the
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Having tackled A Springtime Reflection on Going Forward, it’s time for really serious questions. Such as the best color of shoes to wear with the little black dress. This is a problem with many correct answers. The canonical answer is going to be black shoes. First image is form instyle.com. The reason is maintaining the
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Mother’s Day is different when you’re a young mom than from when you’re a grandma. And when you’re dealing with great grandma, all bets are off. First Let’s Go Back In Time When I was a young mother all I wanted on mother’s day was some rest. The predominant plan was to get my husband
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Finally, spring is here. You open the windows and smell the magical smell.. But what to do if springtime you brings ennui … even self doubt? Perhaps my doubt comes from the late, even unreliable, spring of Northern Colorado. Even when it does show up, you can’t be totally sure it will stay. There can
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Are you wondering how to start a spiritual journey? To do that, we first must entertain a few definitions. First, let’s talk about the progress of our lives as humans on earth. Then, we can speak of types of spiritual journeys. I think of life as being in three stages. You can start your spiritual
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Dinner. It’s More Important than Either You or I Thought This is my roundup post about dinner. I’ve been thinking about dinner a lot these days, and not just because I’m hungry. Dinner is more important than I thought. And it’s hard to get a “real” (three course, meat, starch, and vegetable) dinner together every
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In an earlier blog post, Loomings of a California Spiritual Journey, I listed four questions I planned to answer by taking a pilgrimage, to California where I grew up. These questions were general and could serve various individuals who want to reflect and refine life practice. Basically, they sketch out a “a how to change
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As I read over the posts that I wrote on the California trip, I made a list of the things I learned on each day and linked the posts below. Today, as I re-write and re-edit, I come again upon thoughts of Amelia Earhart. Her name came up more than once. Like her I was
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