Embracing the Giant Pause IV
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While flowers are starting to bloom along with budding trees, many of us continue to be confined to shelter in place restrictions. There is still of a sense of pause, when we consider how to proceed with work, family routines or connections in our outside world. For some areas, getting back to the “new normal”…
Embracing the Giant Pause III
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Hello Wonder and Possibility Friends, Yes, in most places it’s another week of staying at home. It seems we are slowly establishing a new normal, but knowing this is only temporary helps us to hang in there. We hope you are embracing the pause with many forms of self-care and to that end, we’re…
Embracing the Giant Pause II
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In the spirit of thriving during these trying times, last week we shared with you a variety of resources on our website and FaceBook pages to help tend to your body, mind and spirit. We also included a dose of humor and some ideas from a fellow sojourner. We hope…
Embracing the Giant Pause
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Hello Wonder and Possibility Friends, What curious times we’re living in! When our world is turned upside down, it’s hard to know how to make sense of it, what to think, where to focus. Our new normal is disorienting, at times even distressing, but we believe that in the midst…
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways…
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We love this question from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but we’re suggesting a twist in this month of love. How often do we truly appreciate who we are? How often do we practice self-love?Our invitation to you this month is to send yourself a Valentine or two appreciating what it is…
Be of Good Cheer…Finding Clarity & Gifts
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And you thought my adventure was over when I returned home from Italy! (Previous post – Grapes, Gratitude & Grace 11/22/19) Well, the adventure continued… Five days after returning home, I flew to California to help with my mother’s convalescence due to her leg injury. My original plan was to…
Grapes, Gratitude & Grace
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Here at Wonder & Possibility, we offer a “field guide for the curious who seek to thrive”. Our perspective is that being out in the FIELD, is life itself, daily experiences each of us encounters and creates. The GUIDE is a collection of strategies, ideas, insights etc. which contribute to…
Taking Life from Death
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Life and death have always seemed to me the ultimate mysteries, offering questions to ponder and possibilities to explore. Finding those questions so compelling, I was not surprised that I felt called to serve as a hospice volunteer. In doing so, I have the great honor and joy of helping…
Whether to Consider the Weather…
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When I was a kid in Ohio, Wally Kinnan was the weatherman on the local news show. I had an affinity toward his presentation of the weather with his felt board and the different cartoon like symbols of sun, rain and snow. His demeanor was calm, cool and collected no…
What’s In Your Suitcase?
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I like to travel. In fact, very often if a friend hasn’t seen me for awhile, the first question is usually “Barb, where have you been lately?” While others love to go shopping for things, if I have any extra money, it will go towards transportation somewhere, more than anything…
