Beautiful or Bothersome? Issue 17 April 19, 2025… Beautiful or Bothersome? Issue 17 Greetings Resilient Friends, I took the photo above while I was out walking my little dog Maggie this week. We were both feeling so happy to be walking in the warm spring sunshine instead of our gray northwest drizzle. An early sign of spring for us in the Pacific Northwest is the dandelion. We stopped to enjoy a wild patch of the beautiful bright yellow flowers. At least I was enjoying the sea of yellow while...
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What the Hurricane Taught Me Issue 15 April 5, 2025… What the Hurricane Taught Me Issue 15 With all the weather events across the county this week, I was thinking of of my hurricane experience in Florida. In August of ’92, I had recently moved to Florida. I was living in South Miami when the weather reports started tracking a tropical storm off the coast. This was a common occurrence during hurricane season. But when the news reports started talking about the direct path to Miami, and the...
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The happiest place on earth…really? Issue 14 March 29, 2025 Issue 14… The Happiest Place on Earth…Really? I was reminded of this saying… I’m paraphrasing ;)… There’s the stuff you know…and there’s the stuff you know you know…and there’s stuff you know you don’t know… but the most intriguing…the stuff you don’t know you don’t know. Hmmm ;) That quote contains a range of our human feelings between… Confidence and Vulnerability. We can feel very confident in living our lives…on most days....
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But I thought I already learned that! Issue 13 March 22, 2025 Greetings Resilient Friends, Have you ever looked back over your last year and said…Geez, I’m glad that’s over! That’s how I felt about my last year from March to March. It felt like one big difficult thing after another to deal with. And my persistence/patience balance was way out of wack…persistence on steroids and chocolate… patience without water, withering in the closet;) My little dog was my trusty side kick through that...
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Our Springtime Gardens… Issue 12 March 15, 2025 Persistence, Patience, and Possibility Greetings Resilient Friends, With spring just around the corner, I’ve been thinking about gardening. For many it’s a rewarding hobby to get out in nature and dig in the dirt. Kind of like living… got to get into it and get your hands dirty ;) Have you ever though of gardening as a metaphor for living? We do so much to prepare ourselves for life, as we prepare the soil for a garden. We work on our self...
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Learning to Savor Life Issue 11 March 8,2025 Greetings Resilient Friends, I was sitting alone in a dimly lit ophthalmologist’s office this week, waiting for my eyes to dilate. There was nothing to do but sit and wait and look around the room. I noticed how the single light above me was throwing oddly shaped shadows on the walls that looked like small furry animals. Considering myself a resilient person…I was trying to savor the moment… but it was difficult ;) And then I had a memory of my...
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Humor+Forgiveness=? Issue 10 Humor+Forgiveness=? March 1, 2025 Greetings Resilient Friends, I don’t think of myself as a funny person, but I do love humor. Humor can heal. This incident quickly popped into my mind. I call it an incident, but more like an embarrassing disaster, that I somehow saved. No, life saved my bacon. And after that incident, I have a true understanding of “life saved my bacon” ;) When I was in kindergarten, my teacher told my mom that I couldn’t carry a tune. The...
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Growing Pains at This Age?…. Issue 8 Greetings Resilient Friends, I was excited to see a special girlfriend of mine last weekend. I’ll call her Josephine, and she is 12. Every time I see her, she gets taller and taller. I hugged her and said, “Oh my gosh, you are almost as tall as I am! You must be having growing pains”. “Oh yes”, she said…”my legs hurt so much and it’s not from soccer.” I replied, “I remember my mom used to give me a milk bath for my growing pains. She would mix some...
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A Hot Blonde Walks into a Bar…. Issue 6 Greetings Resilient Friends, Hey there… Have you heard the joke about the hot blonde that walks into a bar? She sees an older gentleman sitting alone at the bar. “Hi there”, she says, sliding onto the next bar stool. “I’ll do anything you’d like for $200.” Placing her hand on his thigh, she gives him a sexy wink. The man sighs, thinks for a few moments, and then he pulls out his wallet. “It’s a deal”, he says. “I want you to paint my house.” As we grow...
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