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"To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious."
-- Samuel Butler

"Sometimes, on a summer morning, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumacs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time.

"I grew in… Continue

In my last blog post about the effect of worrying and what to do about it I forgot humor! Paul wrote the following article when I was stuck in a cycle of worry and fear that the "normal" stress relief methods could do nothing about.

How to Stop Worrying.
by Paul Hood

Dale Carnegie had some good ideas, but the story isn’t over yet.

It’s not as if there aren’t thousands, maybe millions of positive examples out there. So many mentors, so many shining examples of how to live life more joyo… Continue

by Sheryl Karas
An excerpt from my book, The Spiritual Journey of Family Caregiving -- but it's applicable to all kinds of situations, especially the economic concerns we're all going through right now:

When it comes to stress we usually like to think that something outside of ourselves has made us be stressed out, and often there IS an outside event that sets the process in motion. However, our reacti… Continue

by Sheryl Karas M.A.

Every time I see a pelican I'm reminded of how things change when a concerted group of people choose to make things happen. When I was a kid the brown pelican was on the endangered species list because of DDT poisoning. I remember being completely terrified by reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. She and most environmentalists at the time believed we were doomed and as a very impressionable child I was convinced they were right. Instead DDT was banned, the pelicans… Continue