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Listen to Gayle reading the blog aloud. Hello Yummy You, Matches, little boxes of matchsticks used to light candles and fires, offered me a potent discovery of muscle building and being met. In my moving, packing, cleaning out of family home intensity (you may...

Don’t run, go slowly, it’s only to yourself that you have to go!Go slowly, don’t run, for the Child of yourself, just born and eternal cannot follow you.~ Juan Ramón Jiménez Listen to Gayle reading the blog aloud. Recently a friend gave me my guffaw for the day. We...

Listen to Gayle reading the blog aloud. Hello my friend, Come closer in for a twirl on the dance floor. We may get dizzy. There’s a conversation I long to have with more people, but so far, I’ve only engaged with my spouse. It’s a debate (some might say argument)...

Listen to Gayle reading the blog aloud. Hello dear stunning You, Twenty years ago, I attended a two-day public workshop on the Seven Stages of Money Maturity with George Kinder. There were twenty or so of us in the room. I was the only financial professional. When...

Listen to Gayle reading the blog aloud. Hello dear You, How’s the start of your 2022? Have you set intentions? Made New Year’s resolutions? Reviewed the past year? Cleared your in-box to zero? Finished the cha cha, a do-si-do, and a yippee ki-yay? Or have you...

Listen to Gayle reading the blog aloud. Hello my friend, I sit a week away from my 61st birthday writing to you, and the day this arrives in your inbox will be my birthday. Happy birthday to me (and all of you Sagittarians out there!). I am also one week away from...

On a good day I laugh. On the best days I laugh and cry. Listen to Gayle reading the blog aloud. Hello beautiful you, Talking with a friend, I shared the growing importance of three words—“and what else”—the ability to relate to present moments with curiosity and...

Listen to Gayle reading the blog aloud. Hello my friend, As I write, an online auction is running to clear out our basement and garage of three decades of family life. My feelings throughout our transition process (a phrase that sounds so well put together and is...

Listen to Gayle reading the blog aloud. Hello my friend, It’s risky to talk about greed. Few folks want to go there. However, I love you too much to let a little fear and discomfort stand in the way. Most often we think of greed in terms of money. A lyric from the...

Listen to Gayle reading the blog aloud. Hello my friend, Until recently, I didn’t know there was such a thing as saltwater grief. But Patty Lennon, my friend, mentor, and colleague, shared her experience of it, and my body response with full on spontaneous tears...