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Archive for September, 2005

Sleep and productivity

This may seem like a no-brainer to anyone reading this, but sleep has a definite effect on productivity. But in our overscheduled, get-anything-done-at-anytime-of-the-day-or-night world, it is hard for us to get the rest we need to function at our most productive. And the answer is to get more rest, but it’s not as easy as [...]

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Disaster Pets

I try not to watch the news, especially when it comes to disaster reporting. I learned the hard lesson during the first Gulf War, when I was glued to the TV and everything in my life started to suffer. I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep, and let’s just not even mention the affect it had [...]

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Autumn

Equinox is here and autumn has begun. It doesn’t much feel like it where I live, and I can only long for the fall clothes, knowing that if I wear them I will be broiling within a matter of minutes.
Fall is the time of harvest, a time of ingathering. To me it is the time [...]

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Overhead regarding Rita

You know, the whole state is in danger…and what does he do? He buries himself in a mountain in Colorado so he can watch it on a big screen tv…

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Ordinary people

We went down to the oceanfront last night, where we were surprised by a parade. Normally at this time of the year the strip is quiet, and all the tourists have gone home. But there were a lot of people, all in town to celebrate and raise money for volunteer emergency medical technicians.
I was touched [...]

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I realize I haven’t posted much here lately. It’s not that I don’t have things to say, or that I don’t have access. But the truth is, I’m taking it easy on myself. Yes, posting to the blog, and doing other writing are still on my project list and also my next action lists, but [...]

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Leonard Cohen

“Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.”

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Some Things Don’t Change…

I was recently reading an old article from Mother Earth News (May/June from 1970). It was apparently published a month or so after the first Earth Day. It lists a large amount of things that can be done to live easier on the Earth.
The sad thing is that most of the same things apply today. [...]

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