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Mindfully Yours: Saving Fat for Explosives or Eating for Peace?
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“When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all that went into the meal’s creation as well as a deep understanding of the relationship between the food …
Posted in April 2016
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Mindfully Yours: Sleeping Under the Stars, My Encounter with an Appalachian Eden
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“Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and… a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the …
Posted in March 2016
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Mindfully Yours: Birth Day, Death Day
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“Pulled from the womb she imitates that mythic kick from some god’s head. She roars, and we are conquered. Her legs, set free, combat the air. Naked warrior: she is our own. Entire empires are overthrown.” ~ from “Birth Day,” …
Posted in February 2016
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Mindfully Yours: Women Retiring from Leadership
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“The years teach much which the days never know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Where and with whom will we spend the final days of our lives?
Posted in January 2016
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Mindfully Yours: The Writing Life
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My only claim to fame, before I fetched myself up as an untrained writer, was Kent State University waiving my freshman English classes and placing me in advanced English on the basis of an essay I wrote: “the Colonial bungling …
Posted in November 2015
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Mindfully Yours: Like Money, Like Love
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“Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.” ~ Jackie Mason For about five decades now, I’ve been taking an informal survey on money and love. I first noticed about 50 years …
Posted in October 2015
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Mindfully Yours: The Business of Art - A Change of Careers
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“We believe in puppet theater as a wholesome and powerful language that can touch men and women and children alike, and we hope that our plays are true and are saying what has to be said, and that they add …
Posted in September 2015
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Mindfully Yours: Mindful Hiking that Heals
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Alone, under the sky, I realize my interconnection with all that is, and everything falls into place. I was born in the American foothills of the Appalachians, believe it or not, in Cleveland, Ohio. But that is not the start …
Posted in August 2015
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Mindfully Yours: Songs of Silence
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“And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sound of silence.” ~ Paul Simon There was a bird outside my window yesterday – wish I knew which one – with a ten-syllable song. Was it …
Mindfully Yours: Three Mindful Men
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We playfully call them the Dharma Hunks—three mindful men who attend and sometimes lead events at Cloud Cottage. Each has incorporated mindfulness into his everyday life.
Posted in June 2015
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Mindfully Yours: The Door to All Wonders - Finding the Middle Way
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The intersection of the macro universe and the micro universe will create a gate, or a door. Lao Tzu called this “the door to all wonders.” This is where yin and yang merge harmoniously. This is also called the Middle …
Posted in May 2015
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Mindfully Yours: The Down Side of Going all “Be Here Now” and Other Friendly Dilemmas
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“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” ~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Posted in zArchive
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Mindfully Yours: If We Accept Imperfection, How Can We Fail? Wabi-Sabi And The Art Of Elegant Poverty
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In 1993, when my late husband and I were working with orphans in Romania, the local business people asked if we would conduct a public relations forum in Deva, a small ancient city in the former Transylvanian mountains where, incidentally, …
Posted in March 2015
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Mindfully Yours: Hugs of Human Kindness
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“I will not play tug o’ war. I’d rather play hug o’ war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.” ~ …
Posted in February 2015
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