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Meditation & Pets admin | 31 May 2009

Songbird of Peace

For this week’s meditation, we turn to an old Chinese proverb…
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a songbird will come.
A songbird of peace will come to you right now.
Here’s how to make it happen…
Take a deep breath. Hold for a second. Exhale slowly and start to focus inwardly. Repeat two or three [...]

Health & Pets & Weight Loss admin | 07 May 2009

Joys of Walking

I’m in the eleventh week of a long-term weight loss trip and part of the fun with the whole deal so far is the fact that after many years of vegetating on my ass working seven days a week on one computer or another, I’ve rediscovered the joys of walking.
I mean, seriously, I’m turning into [...]

Pets admin | 16 Apr 2009

In Memory of Maggie, My Old Dog

One hot afternoon in the summer of 1998 before I became self-employed, I stepped outside the building where I worked at the time to get some fresh but humid air in my lungs after a long stretch of being hunched over a computer keyboard.
Curled up in a nasty, dirty ball of old white fur at [...]