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RATS

The awesome power of a bored brain In 11 days, Bob and I leave Maui with no plans to return. A couple of days ago, I came across a road kill rat during one of my walks. It surprised me, not because I have never seen road kill, or dead rats, or even road kill […]

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Creative Visualization Works!

Camille and I created “storyboards” back in 1997. This was an exercise encouraged by friends of ours who are career and life enhancement coaches. We collected pictures and words that were meaningful to us for a couple of months and then assembled them onto poster boards. We did this individually, and didn’t share the results […]

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STEPPING INTO A NEW LIFE

When I close my eyes at night, I am walking up this path, north across the island. There are no sirens, no dodging of cars, no blinding lights. Only the singing of insects and the feel of the earth beneath my feet.

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THINNING IT DOWN

I just finished boxing up all of our horse stuff. A good friend was kind enough to take responsibility for distributing it to the less fortunate students in her riding barn. Four boxes, a saddle, rack and whip doesn’t seem like much but we have been thinning it down for years.

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A BAD FIT

If the shoe fits – wear it For six years we have been driving and walking on the industrialized soil of the greatest country in the world. For six years we felt as if we had a small pebble in our shoe. Or perhaps they didn’t fit right. We tried to ignore it. We tried […]