Author: resolutewoman
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A hermit in a cave
The last time I was in Tulsa, I went with my son Jay to his church—St. Antony Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church. That Sunday, Father George told the story of St. Antony, who was born in Egypt in 251 A.D. and who became a hermit. He lived by himself in a cave for more than a…
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The land of delight
When she was a girl, she lived in a world of books and imagination, Gloria Steinem explained to Maria Shriver in an Interview Magazine article, which I found online. Where does she live now? “I live in the land of delight—of just walking in the street, and the sun is shining,” Steinem said. –Joy
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Another point of view
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his (or her) point of view,” said Harper Lee. Lee, who died recently, was the author of To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Living with yourself
“Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself,” Harper Lee once said. “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” Lee, who died recently, was the author of To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Plodding along with books
In a letter to Oprah Winfrey in 2006, Harper Lee defended her love of books. “In an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me,” she wrote. Lee, who died recently, was the author of To Kill…
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Advice from the Buddhists
I’m trying to achieve more balance in my life and striving for a better perspective. That’s why I like this advice from the Buddhists: “Act as the future of the universe depends on what you do while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make a difference.” I found that quote in an article…
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Remember to float
My very busy friend Kerry, who’s the mother of two with a full-time job as a senior pastor at a Methodist church, wrote recently in her blog that she sometimes feels overwhelmed and exhausted. “The image that has been coming to my mind lately of my life is of me treading water,” she writes. “Treading…
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What it’s like to be a mother
“D.C.” was one of many women incarcerated at the David L. Moss Criminal Justice Center in Tulsa, but this particular prisoner took a poetry class and wrote a poem that’s published in a slim book called Poetic Justice. She writes that being a mother is: “like sunshine sometimes. It’s a wonderful melody.” And, then, it…
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Exercise can help cure addictions
If you can’t eat just one cookie or one potato chip—and that one cookie or one chip can lead to a day or two of eating too, too much, you may battle a food addiction. I do. Dr. John Ratey has a chapter in his book Spark—The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain…
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Exercise makes me feel better
Even when I think I’d rather roll over and sleep some more instead of getting up and taking my morning walk, I know from experience that I’ll feel better after I my dog and I get some exercise. Dr. John Ratey affirms my conclusion and explains exactly why exercise makes changes in my brain that…