The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Advice from Willie

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in

    “I don’t feel 81,” Willie Nelson told AARP The Magazine. “I feel about 20. I’m exaggerating a little. “ But, I just got my fifth-degree black belt in (the Korean martial art) GongKwon Yusul. Every day I ride my bike or golf or ride my horses. I do calisthenics on the bus. So far, it’s…

  • How anger can be light

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in ,

    Arun Gandhi was 12 years old when he and his family visited his grandfather Mahatma Gandhi. Arum struggled to be a Gandhi, to live up to his famous grandfather’s name and reputation. “Peace and stillness did not come easily to me,” he remembers. One day, when another boy shoved him during a soccer game, Arun…

  • Good stuff is going on

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in ,

    The poet Naomi Shahid Nye, whose father is Palestinian, visits schools in the United States and the Middle East. At the Texas Book Festival in Austin, she remembered the students in one classroom in the Middle East. “Do the kids in the United States know we want to be their friends?” the children asked. No…

  • Goodbye October

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in ,

    What a wonderful month I had. I visited my brother James and his wife Jeany in Los Lunas, New Mexico. I helped Jeany make salsa with tomatoes, green peppers and onions from her garden one sunny afternoon. And, I woke up at 4:30 one morning to join 40,000 other people at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta.…

  • Artificial sweeteners?!

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in

    My husband mentioned the article in the newspaper and my son sent me a link to a report on the research. Now I keep finding more information that confirms that I was right when I finally decided to stop drinking diet soft drinks and using artificial sweeteners. Even in The Financial Times. It reported that…

  • Be grateful

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in ,

    What do you need to do to be healthier? “Most things I would say are commonsense—things you were taught in first grade,” Dr. David Johnson, chair of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center told The Dallas Morning News in an article in its September 30, 2014, issue. “You don’t have to…

  • Survive as yourself

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in ,

    “The real challenge is not simply to survive,” Eli Kazan said. “Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself—undiminished.” I found that quote in a book—Here’s to You by Zadra and Wills—on sale at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. I also discovered two more quotes worth repeating. Be bold in what you…

  • Changing a bad habit

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in ,

    Now when I wake up, I make myself a cup of English Breakfast tea—and drink it without artificial sweetener. During the day, I drink water—plain from the tap or sparkling—instead of diet soft drinks. When I think about my favorite drink—diet Sunkist, I remember that I am determined—Resolute!—to change a bad habit. I have survived…

  • Open your mind

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in ,

    I found a little book full of interesting quotes at my brother and sister-in-law’s house in New Mexico. Here are three of my favorites from Open Your Mind, Open Your Life—A Book of Eastern Wisdom by Taro Gold. * Instead of putting others in their place, put yourself in theirs. * A book is a…

  • Laughter for your soul

    —

    by

    resolutewoman
    in

    Titana Kaula, a yoga instructor in Albuquerque, remembers when she was a single mother and she was working full-time. She was so busy that she had to exercise during her lunch hour. She soon realized that those workouts relieved her stress. “Engaging in exercise is some kind of laughter for your soul,” Kaula told Donna…