The Resolute Woman

Category: holidays

  • A conspiracy of love

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    “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love,” said Hamilton Wright Mabie, an American author born in 1846. Merry Christmas!

  • A little something extra

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    “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone,” said Charles Schulz. We wish you pleasant moments doing kind deeds for friends and family at Christmastime.

  • It doesn’t come from a store

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    “Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before!” wrote Dr. Seuss in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. “What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!” We wish you peace and joy at Christmastime.

  • Love from my gentle friends

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    I missed my book club’s annual Christmas party because I had a horrible stomach virus. I was very sick and sad—until my friend Eva sent me a card with “sunshine thoughts.” My friend Kathryn made me chicken soup with matzo balls. My friend Olga mailed me a book because I missed the book club book…

  • After a big Thanksgiving feast

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    Did you eat too much during the Thanksgiving holidays? I did. But I’m not going to feel guilty. I thoroughly enjoyed everything, especially the mashed potatoes and pecan pie. I know making unhealthy choices during the holiday doesn’t make me a bad person. However, those choices do make me a person who needs to eat…

  • We’re thankful for family

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    We’re thankful for our families—including the canine members of our families. We like the words of poet Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of a new book Dog Songs. “Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as…

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson thanked God for health and food, love and friends. So do we. For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, For love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

  • The best things in the world

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    This quote is from a Thanksgiving card from my good friend Barbara. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be touched but are felt with the heart.” –Helen Keller –Joy

  • What happened to Thanksgiving?

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    Chocolate Santas are on sale at the drug store, wreaths hang at the upscale grocery store and my grocery store has a whole aisle of Christmas decorations. What happened to Thanksgiving? I am going to pause and reflect on the beauty of the fallen leaves in my front yard and all of my other blessings…

  • The pursuit of happiness

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    When Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues signed the Declaration of Independence and declared that we have a fundamental right to “the pursuit of happiness,” they were not thinking about “yellow smiley faces, self-esteem or even feelings,” says Jon Meacham, writing in the July 8-15 issue of Time magazine. Instead, they were thinking about the “good…