by Lynda | Dec 19, 2016 | Building Community, Everyday Living, Healthy Choices, Human Rights, Spirituality & Faith
One more trip around the sun. Tomorrow I celebrate Winter Solstice, the darkest day of the year. I’ll light candles, drink hot chocolate, and play games around a blazing fire. Winter Solstice symbolizes a movement from darkness into light. We embrace the darkest...
by Lynda | Oct 22, 2016 | Aging, Building Community, Business In A Changing World, Ecology & Earthly Matters, Everyday Living, Healthy Choices, Human Rights, Life, Death & the Supernatural, Spirituality & Faith, XtraDose
I stand at the base of the Founder’s Tree, in awe, all 5 feet 8 inches of me. I’ve just returned from a visit to “the Redwoods” and call them by name as if I’m referring to life-long friends or my beloved family, and I suppose I am. My...
by Lynda | Sep 2, 2016 | Aging, Building Community, Everyday Living, Healthy Choices, Spirituality & Faith
Dallas, TX, S’s apartment, 1987 — We poured wine. We laughed. We cried. We hadn’t seen each other in five years. S’s apartment was not far from Chadbourne Street where in 1982 three of us shared a bungalow just off Inwood and Lovers’ Lane...
by Lynda | Apr 1, 2016 | Art, Literature & Film, Building Community, Business In A Changing World, Ecology & Earthly Matters, Everyday Living, Healthy Choices, Human Rights, Spirituality & Faith, XtraDose
When seedlings push through the soil in search of sunlight, we gardeners rejoice. We tenderly water them and coax them along. At first the tiny leaves appear symmetrical in shape and size; yet within days or even hours, we begin to notice the...
by Lynda | Mar 9, 2016 | Aging, Building Community, Business In A Changing World, Ecology & Earthly Matters, Everyday Living, Human Rights, Spirituality & Faith, XtraDose
Tongue-tied. Baffled. Boggled. Definitely not bored. That’s how I describe my reaction to the primary elections and caucuses happening around our country. I constantly shake my head and ask what’s going on in our fair land. How did we get in this mess?...
by Lynda | Feb 14, 2016 | Art, Literature & Film, Building Community, Everyday Living, Healthy Choices, Spirituality & Faith
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” Charles Schultz, cartoonist I have big plans today and invite you to join me. Today, we’re going to spread love everywhere we go. We won’t walk up to strangers and...
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