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Step 365: What’s Possible? A 2010 Wrap-up.

“I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.” ~ Max Lerner As I cross over the finish line of 365 days of living and writing about an extraordinary life, I marvel at the passing of another year. On December 31, 2009, I wrote a post explaining that in 2010 I wanted to record [...]

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Step 364: The Secret We Know

“We dance around in a ring and suppose but the secret sits in the middle and knows.” ~ Robert Frost This quote was sent to me by Archan, a very loyal and supportive reader and commenter on this blog. He is constantly feeding me with encouragement and sending along resources, books, and quotes to inspire [...]

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Step 363: 4 Ways to Bring About A Transformation

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” ~ Wayne Dyer On Monday I wrote about caterpillars. Yesterday I wrote about focusing on goals of value rather than success. Some people get Spring fever. I’ve got New Year’s fever! As we [...]

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Step 362: Success and Value

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” ~ Albert Einstein 2011 is coming at us fast and furious, and I’m getting nervous. Nervous about ideas and plans that I’m putting into action. I’m starting to teach my own independent yoga classes on Sunday, January 30th. [...]

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Step 361: The Caterpillar’s Promise

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” ~ Buckminster Fuller I read this quote over the Christmas holiday as I was learning more about Eric Carle’s work. He wrote the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar (for his sister, Christa, I might add), as well as the Brown [...]

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Step 360: My Christmas Story

My faith has morphed over the years. I was raised Catholic, thought for a bit about being a Unitarian and a Buddhist, and then through yoga thought that Hinduism may be a possibility. Finally, I happily settled on being interested in religion and calling myself spiritual without affiliation. So it came as quite a surprise [...]

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Step 359: Holiday Greetings from Christa and Phin

This free digital ecard personalized with Smilebox

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Step 358: Movement and Change as Seen by The Year in Pictures

The New York Times put together its annual review of the year in pictures. Every year I’m stunned by everything that’s happened in our world. The earthquake in Haiti, and then the earthquake soon after in Chile. The volcano in Iceland. The Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The oil spill in the Gulf. The World Cup [...]

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Step 357: Listening for Answers

“Put very simply, prayer is when we ask the universe for something, and meditation is when we stop and listen.” ~ DailyOm At this time of year, people are offering up a lot of prayers. We are looking toward the new year to start fresh, to create and work toward new goals and dreams. We [...]

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Step 356: Fun With Popular Christmas Folklore – Figgy Pudding, Yuletide, and More

I was in church with my family on Sunday morning and the Minister told us the story of the candy cane, how it was shaped like the staff of a shepherd to symbolize the important role of the then-lowly shepherds in announcing Jesus’s birth to the world. At the time shepherds were considered unclean and [...]

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