This holiday season I’ve observed the word “joy” appearing on all kinds of products. These photos show “Joy” printed on coffee cups, paper napkins, facial tissue boxes and ads for magazine subscriptions. Looks like folks are buying a lot of joy. The New World Dictionary defines Joy as “a very glad feeling; happiness; great pleasure; [...]
Are you a Difference Maker? Naturally, I’m referring to positive differences. How do you make a difference in other peoples’ lives on a daily basis? Will your life’s legacy be one of making positive differences? I believe that taking positive actions infuses the world with more joy. And who can’t handle more joy? If you [...]
Halloween has become the second most lucrative holiday for retailers; the first being Christmas. It seems that folks are attracted to scary things – haunted houses, ghosts, witches… Perhaps, these are “safe” fears. We scream, we laugh, we move on. Halloween stuff is not real. Everyday fears and phobias are harder to laugh off. One [...]
What if we were to walk each step as if it were a miracle? Thich Nhat Hanh writes in Your True Home that by being truly aware of each moment, each breath and each step, we can appreciate that we are participating in the miracle of life. In fact, each one of our steps is [...]
Have you ever visited a butterfly house? Or sat in a specially designed butterfly garden teeming with fluttering wings? This summer I visited the Wings of Mackinac Butterfly Conservatory, located on Mackinac Island, Michigan. Here are photos of some of the butterflies that I was able to observe. I was so in awe of their [...]
Last week I was planting daylilies and came across the severed arm of a Spiderman action figure. This in itself was not cause for surprise. For the past 4 summers, I have been on a quest to coax the barren wasteland around our Up North home into a more fertile landscape. The previous owners had [...]
As a lifelong “talker to myself”, I was recently pleased to spot one of those internet headlines “Talking to yourself out loud helps boost brainpower and could indicate higher intelligence.” Naturally, I had to click on the link to learn more. A Bangor University study has concluded that reading instructions out loud allows our brains [...]
For years doctors have told us to exercise and eat our vegetables in order to stay healthy. Seems like good advice. But Dr. Laura Koniver, MD prescribes something else….. CREATIVITY. As in, CREATE ANYTHING. Dr. Koniver asserts that the action of creativity produces energy flow in and out of our bodies that is both important [...]
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” – John Muir My place of beauty is Glen Lake and the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes area located west of Traverse City, Michigan. My family has been spending summers on Glen Lake for [...]
Leon Logothetis is an interesting guy He was a London stockbroker who traded in his prosperous life for a life of adventure. In 2014 Leon traveled around the world riding on a vintage yellow motorcycle. With no money…. None. … Relying on the kindness of strangers for gasoline, food and lodging. His premise was that [...]
