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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Posted on November 24, 2025
in #Reading Poetry, Being in Nature, Creativity, Spirituality
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It is said, the common characteristics of individuals who live in mountains, near rivers or oceans, in the wilderness and love to spend time in nature overlap with the traits of those who call themselves spiritual. These traits are kindness, peacefulness, compassion, and contentment with what is. These folks do not criticize or judge. They have motivating and kind words for others, and operate with an intention of making the world a better place.  One may ask, why is this so? What has nature to do with spirituality? Spirituality relates to people’s emotions and beliefs rather than their thinking or physical self and surroundings. Upon closer analysis six spiritual themes emerge: feeling of connection with something more than oneself, inner vibrancy, presence, joy, gratitude, and compassion. The data shows that those...

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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Posted on November 10, 2025
in #Reading Poetry, Awareness, Being in Nature, Sharper Brain after Retirement
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Let’s focus on our wondrous senses this week. Do you think you exploit your body’s unlimited potential? That you pay100 percent attention to it? That you are aware how many possibilities it has for providing enjoyment even at our age?  The first step to awaken your body and mind is a 2-minute body scan, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head, first thing every morning while still lying in the bed. Be grateful to each body part and each sense for what it does. At this stage of life all our senses need help to continue functioning: eyewear, hearing aid, dentures, replaced knee or hip.  Perhaps most of everything else that mother nature provided you at your birth is in working condition. Whatever is not used to...

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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Posted on June 11, 2025
in #Reading Poetry, Creativity, Imagination, Reading
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In Praise of PoetryPoetry grows on us. Reading poems aloud can turn into an enjoyable exercise, but more importantly, it helps refine our thinking and enhances journaling. You may not want to become a poet but you learn to have a grasp on words and how they have power to stir deep feelings and emotions in you that you may not have experienced before.  Reading poetry is a private, intimate experience. It widens our emotional space by stirring self-examination. It helps us deal with paradoxical emotions we don’t understand. Poems have messages that speak directly to us. When a poem links with our heart, it feels like the poet has shared a secret. The relationship between the poet, the poem, and the listener inspires awe and delight. A boy reading sitting...

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Tuesday, June 10,2025

Posted on June 9, 2025
in #Neuroscience and Meditation, #Reading Poetry, Imagination
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Who doesn’t want to sharpen their mind at any time in our life, especially during the final stage? We now know that the brain can be enriched, made faster, fitter and sharper at any age by practicing, that is doing something over and over again (neuroplasticity). We also know a sharper mind is more resilient which improves when we go through challenging experiences. Each day counts.  Body and brain are deeply connected. What is good for the body is good for the brain. Here are eight practices brain needs. You may be already exercising some of these. So one by one try to add the ones you are not: 1. Sleep for seven to eight hours a night2. Eat three nutritious meals a day3. Walk/Exercise four to five times a week4. Daily...

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Thursday, June 5, 2025

Posted on June 4, 2025
in #Reading Poetry
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In the book, Unblock Your Creative Flow, the month of June is dedicated to writing poetry. If I get a slimmer second edition of the volume published, I would devote the spring season to READING poetry instead of writing it. It's only after we read or listen to plenty of poems that we may feel inspired to write one.During May and the first half of June why not sit at the edge of a pond, under the shade of a tree and listen to birds singing chorus? Feel a pleasant breeze caressing the skin while you take pleasure in reading a poem or two? This month we'll read poems by William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, Mary Oliver, Valarie Cox, Hafiz, Rabindra Nath Tagore, Marianne Williamson, Michael Castori and Jon Kabat Zinn.  As a...

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