I heard about this concept of time poverty A few years back, and it takes on new meaning every time I am reintroduced to it. Time poverty has nothing much to do with money, more to do with the spaciousness of your life. Is everything feeling compressed and jumbled together? Or is your life balanced and spacious? When you are suffering from...
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I was sadly awakened to the harm done this season with the 'holiday' called Halloween. Let's take it apart a bit and see what is happening under charm to cause us to say this is a fun activity and it can't hurt anything, just a bit of fun.  Halloween weekend is known for the biggest sacrifice of children on weekends of the year. Yes, that i...
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With a great flurry of activity, my office is coming together so very nicely. I'm thinking of sorting papers and items for a couple of weeks to identify if they are worth holding on to or releasing. I am finding myself using this time as a fall cleanses of my possessions. I've gone through each book 1 by 1 and tested whether I should keep or not...
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Years ago, in what feels like a completely different life, I was a farmer. I was married to a farmer who worked the land. We had the care of 500 acres, with 3 barns, a silo, and a pasture with a creek.  My garden back then was 5 acres. I grew tomatoes, squashes, watermelon, and pumpkin. We also had a hundred-year-old apple tree that produced a goo...
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There is a weird dynamic going on between media politicians and podcasters. It's a battle, and both sides are losing.  To deliberately lie, speak untruths and deceive are works of evil. They, the things spoken, are malefic in nature. So when you hear or read a straight-out lie, a normal response is anger and a refusal of no, please don't lie to...
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