The Legacy Of Building Community In A Pandemic
Reflection: Living alone as I have for the past 22 years takes on new meaning as the weeks of sheltering-in-place crawl on. I’m a natural extrovert and over my lifetime have sought family and...
View ArticleThe Legacy Of Wonder
Reflection: Do you remember being a child of four or five wondering about the puffy white clouds floating in a perfect blue sky as you lay in the sweet-smelling grass? Or your wonder as you freed a...
View ArticleThe Legacy Of Hearth And Home
Reflection: We know after sheltering-in-place for months to avoid COVID-19 that our lives have been changed perhaps forever. We hear mostly about what’s broken, what’s difficult, and depressing. But...
View ArticleThe Legacy Of Community
Reflection: While I was searching for a meaningful topic for the October, 2020 Legacy Tips & Tools, I knew I’d found it when I read Kate Murphy in The NY Times. On September 1, 2020 she wrote, “We...
View ArticleSelf-Care As Legacy
Reflection: From the dictionary: the practice of taking an active role in protecting one’s own well-being and happiness, in particular during periods of stress: expressing oneself is an essential form...
View ArticleThe Legacy Of January’s Renewal
Reflection: As we’re just past the longest night and the shortest day of 2020, we begin the new year, 2021. It’s a perfect time to focus light on some basic principles of legacy and the practice of...
View ArticleLegacy: Love Is All We Need
Reflection: We’re just a few days from Valentine’s Day, indeed a Hallmark holiday, but it provides us with an opportunity to focus on the importance of living our love, although we’ve had to create new...
View ArticleThe Legacy Of Blessings & Curses
Reflection: A Chinese folk tale illustrates the relation of a blessing or a curse. One day a horse ran away from a man skilled in interpreting hidden meanings. When people tried to console him, he...
View ArticleLegacy: Linking The Past & Future Through Story
Reflection: As storytelling beings, we are captivated by stories, particularly those that are connected to us. Stories we write about our ancestors – their values, and their time in history – enable...
View ArticleLegacy For The Celebrations Of The Spring Season
Reflection: Along with the cherry and magnolia blossoms, and the jonquils and tulips heralding spring comes the time to prepare for the events and occasions celebrated in May and June: graduations,...
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