My yoga instructor told me a story this morning. (Okay, don’t laugh I am learning how to stretch). Seems that recently in Thailand there was an ancient statue of Buddha that had to be moved. They had to be careful because it was ancient and it had lots of cracks in the plaster. It started…

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The Pope has left the country and only time will tell whether his visit had a lasting impact or not. I hope it did. Suzy and I noticed the same thing about the media coverage of his visit — every reporter who reported on the Pope had a special smile on his or her face…

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Grandma Danny writes as she approaches 100 years that age is a quality of mind. Sometimes my knees remind me I am getting older, Danny reminds me I am not old. I become old, when I leave my dreams behind, and I continue to dream. I become old when my ambition’s fire is put out,…

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It is never too soon to be kind, for we never know when it will be too late. — Grandma Danny. Whatever one reads for inspiration — the Bible, the Torah, the Koran, the poetry of Rumi, the words of Confucius, etc. — I have come to understand it needs to be a living breathing text.…

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“…he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say ‘The town is near,’ but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.” ― Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel Who amongst us hasn’t set our sights on the “distant soaring ranges” and turned away from what we…

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