The Resolute Woman

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  • Beautiful and brainy

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    During the 1940s, the public relations department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer promoted movie star Hedy Lamarr as “the most beautiful woman in the world.” But Hedy had brains and beauty. Together with composer George Antheil, she invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems and many other devices possible. In his book Hedy’s Folly—the…

  • A different kind of beauty

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    In her book Wild—From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed tells how startled she was when she looked into a mirror after three weeks hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. She looked like “a woman who had been the victim of a violent and bizarre crime,” she writes. “Bruises that ranged in…

  • Death by suburb

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    No matter if you live in the country or a city or a suburb, David L. Goetz, in his book Death By Suburb—How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul, offers some interesting comments about surviving in our hectic world: “Busyness and efficiency stalk the deeper, spiritual life….The practice of solitude may be the…

  • The Lost Girls of Sudan

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    If you’re like us, you’ve probably heard about the Lost Boys of Sudan. Their journey started when civil war erupted in Sudan and then was followed by a severe famine and a second civil war. As a result, more than 5.5 million Sudanese were uprooted from their homes. A 1998 study by the U.S. Committee…

  • Need some Vitamin C?

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    Even if you already have had a glass of orange juice today, you may need some Vitamin C. We heard an interview with Dr. Edward Hallowell on National Public Radio recently, and he suggested that one way we can create a little calmness in our busy lives is to get a little more Vitamin C.…

  • Wisdom from Piper Kerman

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    After she graduated from Smith College, Piper Kerman wasn’t sure what she wanted to do with her life. Drifting for a while, she became friends with a group of people who were buying and selling drugs in the United States and other countries, too. Eventually, though, she moved on. It was years later, after she…

  • More wisdom from Cheryl Strayed

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    What makes Cheryl Strayed, who wrote Wild about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, special? Her “ability to go to dark places that we don’t like to talk about,” writes Edward Nawotka in an article in the October 22, 2012, issue of the Dallas Morning News. “Urging people to do the same is something she returns…

  • How do habits change?

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    As we all know too well, there are no easy, simple answers to rely on when we want to change a habit. As Charles Duhigg says in his book The Power of Habit—Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, “There is, unfortunately, no specific set of steps guaranteed to work for every…

  • It’s time to play

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    In his book Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul, Dr. Christopher Vaughan advises us to spend more time playing. Play, he says, is whatever you love to do, and spending more time doing what you love to do will improve your work and your relationships. “There isn’t any…

  • Wisdom from Margaret Hastings

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    In 1945, at the end of World War II, Margaret Hastings went on a sightseeing flight with 23 other soldiers and members of the Women’s Army Corps in the isolated mountains of New Guinea. They wanted to catch a glimpse of a beautiful valley that the Americans referred to as Shangri-La and the primitive people…