While traveling from Pennsylvania to North Carolina recently, I stopped at Williamsburg, VA one evening and walked around. Every time I go there I notice something different. This time it was all the variety of wooden benches lining the historic area. I photographed as many different designs of the many Williamsburg benches as I could […]
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I grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta in the 1980s in a three-bedroom, two-bath ranch house with a romantic dream about farm life. No doubt, this fantasy came from my favorite books as a child: Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt and Where the Red Fern Grows by
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I attended the Philadelphia Flower Show on March 3. This year the show combined art and flowers, with some displays being inspired by paintings and other works of art. And the display of blooms and greenery was very welcome in the midst of the cold, snowy winter we’ve had in Pennsylvania. The art inspired
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As much as I fantasize about having a dream lifestyle where I travel around the world, exploring new places, meeting all different kinds of people, sample the variety of experiences the world has to offer, deep down I have always known that joy exists everywhere and that where I am is all I need. In fact, many spiritualists will say that
The most basic tenet of writing is that you need something to write about. Think about it: how dreadful it feels when you have to write something or give a talk and you can’t think of anything to say. The result inevitably is suffering (yours ) and boredom (the audience’s). This is important no matter
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Almost a year ago I moved to a house in a small town in Central Pennsylvania, Gratz, PA. Last week I had the chance to go to my first Gratz Fair.
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Master Rules For All Projects 1. Be Yourself Don’t attempt to try to be someone or something you are not. Figure out who you are, who your brand is, who your company is, and then stay true to that. Having a firm sense of identity makes all the other decisions much easier. It also goes
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Communication Essentials to get your ideas out in the world purpose. mission statement. Why are you doing what you are doing? vision. Where do you want to go? What is your big dream? gist. How do you want people to think about you? What is the essence of the project? niche. What do you do
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“Dora Greenfield left her husband because she was afraid of him. She decided six months later to return to him for the same reason. The absent Paul, haunting her with letters and telephone bells and imagined footsteps on the stairs had begun to be the greater torment. Dora suffered from guilt, and with guilt came
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Apuleius. Metamorphoses:The Transformations of Lucius, aka The Golden Ass. Robert Graves, trans. As the only Latin novel that has survived in its entirety, it merits study as a representation of a whole ancient culture that has profoundly inspired so many modern writers. It is especially compelling because the novel has its own quirky style, blending elements of what
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