Posted December 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 December 2019 People have been marking—and often celebrating—the passing of time for all of recorded history. As the most easily observable markers of time, days and seasons, were the first to be recorded. It won’t surprise anyone that people living in places with readily observable seasonal changes were the first to use calendars to track the passing […]
Posted November 30, 2019 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 30 November 2019 A woman friend of mine was at work (here in Michigan) when a co-worker received a call that the woman’s daughter was in critical condition and going into emergency surgery in Texas. This mother was understandably distraught. Even if she left right at that moment she could not get from Michigan to Texas before the […]
Posted November 3, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 3 November 2019 I am among those who prefers life to be understandable, explainable, and—for the most part—predictable. I don’t understand all the Laws of Physics, but I believe they are “essentially” true: What goes up, must come down; Earth rotates on its axis and around the sun; the seasons change on a relatively fixed schedule, even it […]
Posted October 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 31 October 2019 Richard Bandler is famous for a lot of sayings. One that has always stuck with me is how disappointment requires adequate preplanning.
We often have conflicting desires. Some desires are known in consciousness, but many are not, and some are downright contradictory.
What is even more of a surprise, is how we may […]
Posted October 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 October 2019 John Lennon of Beatles fame is quoted as having said, […]
Posted September 30, 2019 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 30 September 2019 Early one morning, sunlight on the morning dew illuminated this intricate spider web stretched between our two bird-feeding stations. Still in my nightwear, I grabbed my iPhone, slipped my feet into my ‘yard shoes’ and went out to snap some photos. The ‘seemingly impossible’ is nature’s way.
Most everyone has seen spider webs suspended […]
Posted September 30, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 September 2019 From a poem by American poet, Walt Whitman:
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They […]
Posted August 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 31 August 2019 If you don’t leave your past in the past,
it will destroy your future.
Live for what today has to offer. Live for what NOW has to offer.
Let the past live in the past, not you.
~ Brahma Kumaris, Thought for Today
E.B. White is the author of such beloved children’s […]
Posted August 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 August 2019 John Lennon is usually given credit for saying, Life is what happens while you are making other plans. A long time ago, a Scottish poet, Robert Burns, commented that The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.” I suspect that the idea is very old and has been expressed in many languages.
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Posted July 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 31 July 2019 “…to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfulness and art, have an effect far beyond their apparent insignificance.”~ Thomas Moore Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
Recently I submitted this letter to the editor of our local newspaper:
Dear […]
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