A year by the sea book cover Joan Anderson
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Expression Lives and Oppression Must Die
I’ve learned that oppression is the opposite of expression and those who oppress live in constant fear. Oppression is the stifling of man and nature’s creative and exploratory need. Read that again: Oppression is the stifling of a human’s need to explore. The best way to stop oppression is to live in the opposite way:…
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Book Review: The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods by Julia Butterfly Hill
There are moments in our lives when we truly come to know and understand the relationship we have with creation and nature. Nothing is ever the same again. I, as well as this courageous activist and author, Julia Butterfly Hill in The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to…
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Thirty Rightful Actions for Living a Happy and Fulfilled Life
Today, I decided to make a list. Thinking about how short life can be, I am sharing my wisdom, thoughts, experience, and my take on life in list form. This is not an exhaustive list by any means, nor do I feel I have mastered any of these. But, I think this is a decent…
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Book Review: In the Body of the World by Eve Ensler
As a lifetime lover and student of literature and as an author myself, there are no words to describe Eve Ensler’s absolutely stunning, courageous, and profound book, In the Body of the World. I am not kidding! It is nothing less than a 21st-century original masterpiece! Ensler’s prose is so poignant, original, and raw; it will ignite the…
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Life: Is It All It’s Cracked up to Be?
On the last day of the year, 2013, I thought I would ponder, once again, that age-old question: “What is the meaning of life?” What a crazy question that has been asked over the centuries since the beginning of time! There is no other question, I believe, that has been asked more. And, answers? There…
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Book Review: Refuse to Choose! Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
“What I care most about is variety. Give me that, and I can do almost any job.” – Scanner 1 “For me, the right career doesn’t exist. It would have to satisfy my creative part, be challenging, and be sometimes solitary, sometimes social.” – Scanner 2 The above quotations are taken from Refuse to Choose!…
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Book Review: Permanent Healing: Quantum Mechanics of Healing by Daniel R. Condron
“The body is a feedback system for the mind.” – Daniel R. Condron There is no better book that I have read so far that explains, simply and logically, the connection between our thoughts and beliefs and disease or illness. All attitudes, thoughts, and beliefs, whether good or bad, manifest in the body. Daniel R.…
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Book Review: Hand Wash Cold: care instructions for an ordinary life by Karen Maezen Miller
“Change your perspective, and the most ordinary things take on expressible beauty.” – Karen Maezen Miller Absolutely one of the best books I have ever read on the simplicity and beauty of all of life is Karen Maezen Miller’s, Hand Wash Cold: care instructions for an ordinary life! Simply, Ms. Miller uses the metaphor of…
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The Unexpected Gap: Thoughts on the In-Between of Life, Change, and All That
It is autumn. It is a time that signifies the end of something, the beginning of something else, and the “in between.” It is a time when the old life withers and new life eventually emerges. It is a time of change. So many of us are truly afraid of change, but change is something…
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