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July 2010

Jul 28 2010

Love, death and a blueberry patch

In Henniker, N. H. (population less than 5,000), you can’t order sushi, watch Toy Story 3 or buy gladiator sandals with platform heels. But this time of the year, if you know where to look, you can pick enough unsprayed, explosively flavourful blueberries to fill any number of pies, and you won’t pay a cent for the privilege. Whoever owns the berry patch can no longer be bothered to charge the pickers who tramp through a tangle of weeds to claim a share of the bounty. My niece Audrey, who lives nearby, is a picker so keen, she drives around with her gear at the ready.

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Jul 23 2010

My Mother – Rosemary Murphy

Six Words – How My Mother Taught Me One Last… Posted by Mary Wallace.

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Jul 22 2010

Special early-bird offer! New sessions of my memoir workshop

Bring a group of women together—any age, any background, any outlook on the world—and chances are they’ll start telling stories, even if no two of them have ever met before. It happens in the hot tub at my favourite spa and it will happen in Memoir That Tells Your Truth, the intimate one-day workshop I’m launching this fall at Verity Women’s Club in Toronto. The first session, scheduled for September 18, filled up within days of its announcement last month. Not to worry: I’ve just added four more.

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Jul 21 2010

My Mother – Darinka Protich

Yesteray, July 19th, was my mother’s birthday. She would… Posted by Milena Protich.

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Jul 20 2010

I lost it on the road

I had just put in my request for a table at the Penny Cluse Cafe, which serves the best breakfast in Burlington, Vt. and among the best we’ve enjoyed in more than 30 years of travel, when I looked at my right wrist and saw that my bracelet was missing. Not just any bracelet but a gift from my husband—a wide yet nearly weightless band of linked chrome beads that draped like silk on my skin.

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Jul 20 2010

Losing it

I once owned a man’s silk paisley scarf in burgundy, cream and navy blue. It was the kind of thing that looks expected on a silver-haired guy in pin-stripes, but playful on a 30-something woman in jeans and a T-shirt. I wore that scarf so often that it smelled of my favourite scent and felt like an extension of my skin. One day I wore it to a movie. Halfway home, I realized that I’d left it on the seat. I rushed back but no one had seen a paisley scarf. Something plummeted inside when I knew for sure that I had lost it.

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Jul 20 2010

Mortgage Insurance – Peace of Mind not Included

It is a well known fact in the insurance industry that bank mortgage life insurance is underwritten at the time of claim.
It is not as well known by the borrowing public. In fact, the majority of mortgage customers are not familiar with the difference…

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Jul 16 2010

Meditation is for Everyone!

Last summer I had the honour of working with an Olympic Athlete—a Canadian-born snowboarder who was having difficulty with his mind and focus while on the hill and in his personal life. We worked together with meditation, visualization and clearing techniques to create an inner stillness and peace in his presence which translates in everything that he does, including snowboarding!

Here’s an exerp from one of the articles written in the Toronto Star: “Not that Lambert isn’t still fretting about that Olympic spot. He’s a worrier by nature. It’s learning to deal with that anxiety with the help of a “meditation guru” in Toronto this past summer that’s helped turn him from someone who had trouble cracking the top 15 to the third-ranked snowboarder in the world in his specialty this season.”
For a full read of the article:
www.thestar.com/sports/wintersports/article/752034–self-control-michael-lambert-s-new-mantra

Meditation is one of those tools that can assist everyone and anyone in all areas of their life. Meditation decreases overall stress and the stress response in the body, regulates blood pressure, eases digestion and clears the condition of the “monkey-mind” that sooo many of us suffer from!

Meditation doesn’t need to be a long process….even a few minutes every day can make a huge difference.

In teaching meditation classes I often tell students to set aside even a few minutes each day….set a timer….and slowly build up to 20 minutes or so. Even a few minutes will provide an amazing effect on the mind, body and spirit. And to let go of the concept of stopping all thoughts because it is impossible….the mind is a part of us, a part of our very being. It is like an ever-running machine. Imbalances occur when it runs us, which often happens in today’s world. However if can give the mind the right tools and environment, we can learn to have it work with us as opposed to run us. We can still the craze of the mind and the billion thoughts we do have each moment. And can learn to still it enough to feel our own being and center…our own stillness, to begin to hear beyond our ears or everyday perceptions and begin to hear the inner voice…the inner dialogue….the inner guidance of our expanded self.

We begin to receive the answers to the questions we all have. And it’s only in this stillness that we are able to hear clearly, because we are slowing down to listen.

I will also often suggest to students and clients to follow a meditation CD or visualization, something that will give the mind something “positive” to focus on while the body slows down and rests and renews. Then allow some time for just breathing, being and listening to the breath, feeling the breath moving through the body. Allowing the breath to become the mantra.

After a few minutes the body, mind and spirit will synch up, link up and integrate. We begin to feel more grounded and present to life! Which will allows us to feel and experience the fullness of each and every moment!!!

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