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How To Compose And Update A Life Plan

“You can’t plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.”  ― Gordon B. Hinckley Compose And Update A Life Plan In 2016 I embarked on composing a Life Plan.  I wrote about the process in a series of posts at that time.  I followed the concepts in:  Living Forward,  A Proven Plan to Stop […]

Fresh Starts Can Happen Whenever!

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”  -T.S. Eliot “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten…” – Joel 2:25 KJVA Last year closed out with a sense of satisfaction.  Of eleven goals, I managed to reach nine of them with progress made on the remaining two .  Eleven was a big number, […]

Through The Looking Glass Using Familiar Stones

“When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”  ― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There “I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?  Then […]

How Does An Abstract Preserve History?

Abstract: A condensed history, taken from public records or documents, of the ownership of a piece of land. We have the original abstract of our Kansas Historic Landmark home dating back to the land grant of 160 acres from the Osage Land Trust.   It’s existence serves to preserve history far beyond  the handing off of property ownership. In past BLOG posts, I have told how three individual lives, immigrants from France and Germany, […]

How to Rest – Maintaining a Dynamic Balance

Get away and unplug. You’ll come back stronger than ever.  – MICHAEL HYATT Summer is halfway over for most of us.  A season that promises recreation, relaxation and rest.  We let go of the frantic demands and structures of the other seasons, and just breathe, right? As a person who retired from a 38 year civil servant […]

A Vertical Garden for Maison Steinbuchel

The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.   Kayla Mueller For over a year I have had an image in my head of a vertical garden at the back of one of our lots.  One problem:  there were four bins of […]

Goals: Write Them Down And Gain A Powerful Advantage. It Works!

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” –  Paulo Coelho Each year since the early 1980s I have set goals.  I always had goals, lists, “to-dos” in my head, but written goals came later.  When I first started, it was primarily in the context of my job/career. In fact, […]

Old Windows – New Imagination

“Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox The five week Living Forward class at our church is coming to a close.  We have explored the value and reasons for this process.  It involves, using one’s imagination, exercising the discipline of […]