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          <div class="message"><p>My current musing:</p><p>What does it mean to “deserve” something? Do we deserve where we are born, or what we are given? Do some people deserve to be wealthy and others deserve to be poor?</p><p>The more I think about…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/musings/blog/7305877/sunshine-musings">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>I got a new woodstove!<br><br>Today’s challenge was getting the 200 lbs. box made of soapstone &amp; cast iron from the back of the Subaru and into the house with the help of my 103 lbs. feldi sister, Linda, and…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/musings/blog/7305893/managing-obstacles">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p><i>We all are on a journey, and the journey takes us places we never imagined... And when we think we want to step into the world to serve, and serve in a role of leading, we may find that the</i>…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/musings/blog/7307818/transformation">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Who said, <i>“It is better to try &amp; fail, than not try at all.”</i><br>And did anyone say, <i>“It's best to not try and still succeed!”</i></p> I like that second one. I'm going to make that my motto... at least… <span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/musings/blog/7305872/not-trying">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>So I recently returned from the annual Landscape Architecture Conference, and I now know that Halloween weekend in Minneapolis is a Thing!&nbsp;I also learned a bit about how your internal attitude changes your world.</p><p>The conference is driven by…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/musings/blog/7305887/acting-from-abundance">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>It's not what I asked for, but I'm finding myself learning to navigate all this space that has opened up in my new life without a pup to hospice. One thing that's oh so tempting is to just mindlessly fill…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/musings/blog/7305894/with-loss-comes-freedom">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>This week I gave Carla her final trip to the vet.<br><br>I had to make an appointment to euthanize her, so I knew Monday was her last walk by the creek, her last meal, her last day of rolling in…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/musings/blog/7279004/full-on-living">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>My heart aches to say that after 12+years of full-on living, Carla has gone to play frisbee in heaven. She passed peacefully Tuesday morning, and although I already miss her terribly, I am also soothed that she is no longer…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/musings/blog/7279010/carla-rip">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Happy New Year! &nbsp;I love celebrating new beginnings.</p><p>It's a chance to reflect on how we got here, release whatever is holding us back, and to reset our compass for where we'd like to go from here...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br><br>It reminds me…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/musings/blog/7274198/shanah-tovah">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Sometimes the obstacle that's keeping you from moving forward is behind you.&nbsp;It's an anchor, keeping you in place despite efforts to move, change, or flow.</p><p>I realized recently that what was challenging me was myself… holding on to my…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/musings/blog/7266935/letting-go">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Each breath is a gift given and received.<br><br>With each breath we literally are connecting our internal and external worlds. We take in the atmosphere around us, and we give back body-warmed air. We keep the oxygen gifted by plants…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/musings/blog/7266933/breathe-in-breathe-out">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>This summer I had the pleasure (and the challenge!) of teaching mindfulness to 30 humans, aged 5-14,&nbsp;for our local 4-H day camp!</p><p>The biggest surprise was how effective&nbsp;the sound of a mindfulness bell was to immediately quiet the…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/musings/blog/7266930/mindful-bodies">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Living in a body with RA has taught me a lot about the limits of force and the usefulness of surrender.&nbsp;</p><p>I used to think surrender meant losing, failure, quitting, a total collapse of will and effort… something to be…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/musings/blog/7266907/active-surrender">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>I saw this on a protest sign this morning. The <a href="https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/protest-at-manlius-swan-pond-upsets-some-neighbors/amp/?fbclid=IwAR3LalVxiKv_dtB4HhzB_tBNHG0hBhPk1fzEMKFZCk6tMcnJfObVIvtaEqY">protest</a> was in the next town over, in <a href="https://www.syracuse.com/news/2023/07/bench-memorializes-mother-swan-faye-killed-on-manlius-pond-its-just-the-beginning.html">Manlius</a>, NY, which is 15 minutes from my home.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>1<sup>st</sup> Response:</strong>&nbsp; feeling the wave of shock and fear crawl through…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/musings/blog/7246430/white-lives-matter">Read more</a></span></div>
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