Category: Decision making
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Expiration Dates
It was a strange and somewhat unsettling week for me. I’ve been a part of the board of my national association for more than a decade, been honored to serve in a variety of leadership roles and been privileged to express my opinions and thoughts at a level where they can, I hope, make a…
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In the Name of Love
At a national conference that I’m attending, we enter the general reception area by walking across a “bridge” that was created by putting up some pieces of chain link fence and creating a pathway that simulates that bridge. As you reached the bridge, you were greeted by a staff member who explained it was the…
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Wearing Costumes
It’s days until Halloween. Around our area there are so many homes decorated with witches and ghosts, pumpkins and devils. Cobwebs stretch from rooftops and across trees and one of our neighbors even has a set of shelves, five high, in the front yard that is filled with carved pumpkins, all lit and flickering after…
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The Ping Pong of Worries
What a strange moment in time this is, although maybe they are all strange and I am just seeing it more clearly right now. I really don’t know. Most of the time, I have my own set of worries that travel like an endless loop, cycling through my thoughts when I am not otherwise occupied.…
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The Micro and the Macro
It’s a juggling act we all wrestle with, I think. And, right now, with the world in chaos and many of us consumed by the news of war in Israel, it is hard to balance. When so many lives have been lost and so many more are at risk, how do we go forward, how…
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Frankly My Dear
Likely one of the most recognizable lines from a book or film, right? “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” served as Rhett Butler’s dismissal of Scarlet O’Hara in Gone With the Wind. I’ve been thinking about those words and thinking that it would be a gift if we could each use that line—and…
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Taking Stock
It is the Jewish New Year, and I’ve spent the last two mornings in holiday services. The familiar words and melodies are ingrained, they have been a part of my life since childhood and there is a comfort in that constancy and consistency. Much can and does change but these traditions of faith carry on.…
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Reclaiming Ourselves
I’ve been doing some reading, and taking some workshops, on the chakra system. The chakras date back to the Vedas in around 1000 BCE and refer to a system of energy, disks of energy that connect up through your body. These seven key energy centers begin around your tailbone and move up at specific points…
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All Things
So many of us, myself totally included, feel a need to be all things to all people, all of the time. I say that without judgment or emotion, as just an observation on how I operate. Maybe it is socialization, growing up in an era where we were taught, especially as women, that we could…
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Making U Turns
In the 25 plus years since my husband and I have been together, we have logged hundreds of thousands of miles in cars. With seven kids in scattered places, with friends and family across the country, we’ve driven to everything from Ultimate Frisbee tournaments to new baby visits to just getting a weekend away by…
With a Full Heart 