Tag: Summer
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So She Reads Collection: Goodbye to Summer
WELCOME to our monthly collection. This space is our online equivalent of a commonplace book. Here is where we offer links and ideas for you to explore, and things we might want to revisit or remember. Brew yourself a cup of tea and savor a quiet moment while you read. Be inspired to live with…
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So She Reads Collection: July Up Close
WELCOME to our monthly collection. This space is our online equivalent of a commonplace book. Here is where we usually offer links and ideas for you to explore, and things we might want to revisit or remember. This time there are no links, as I didn’t save anything worth passing on. Instead it’s a close…
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All In Good Time
It is the middle of summer. Life is busy with many good things to do. You can give your mind a break by setting a timer. Timers let us do one task with concentration, keep us from getting sucked down black holes of distraction, and set limits on disliked or loved tasks. So use your…
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The Remains of the Day
This lovely, short book is listed in a recent post about great summer books. I would like to tell you more about it. I happened across a description of The Remains of the Day where the reviewer said it was about “an English butler reflecting on his life of service.” As it happens, my word…
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Timeless Summer Reads: Connecting Past and Present
The air wafting through my open window has a special feel today. It’s drowsy, dreamy and transportive. It is blowing from some far away childhood summer afternoon, and brings with it the feelings and thoughts of those days, taking me back to imaginary summers long before I was born. It brings timeless thoughts and feelings…
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Consider the Roses
It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. — Maud Hart Lovelace, Besty-Tacy and Tib Wouldn’t it be nice if roses could talk? I’m sure they could tell us such lovely things. –Lucy Maud Montgomery Roses Personified Won’t you come into my garden? I…
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How to Enjoy Summer Break: A Mom’s Perspective
Today I’m looking out of my north window at high fluffy clouds, a blue sky and green grass. It feels like summer. Earlier my daughter’s class walked by on the unused train track that runs from our little berg where the school is to the lake just half a mile away. They looked so carefree…
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August Collection: It Came to Pass
WELCOME to our monthly collection where we offer links and ideas for you to explore with us. This summer has been a progression of changes, more than usual and some happy and some sad. Time moves on and always brings change, but some events seems to mark our lives in a before and after way.…
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Boost Your Happiness Now
They say happiness is a choice. There have been times when I cannot believe it, and times I have experienced it to be true. In any case, it’s worth a try, isn’t it? Here are some choices you could make you just a little happier today. Affirmations Affirm: To state clearly that something is true…
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A Quick Case for LONG Books
I’m not a fan of long books. Anything that feels like a door stop is too cumbersome to hold much less to carry with me. My attention span isn’t that disciplined. And they are usually slow moving classics filled with detailed description. They’re just so long! But I’m excited to tell you I’ve found a…
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