A full-blown, weeks-long vacation may not be available to you. Or vacation may be weeks or months from now. Why not plan a single day for the good of your soul? Try to imagine your whole self: body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Look at the suggestions in these categories and pick just a few to [...]
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Say “vacation” to seven different people, and you will trigger seven different ideas of what a vacation is. When summer arrives and the kids are out of school—or, when summer arrives and folks in the second half of life feel motivated to emerge from winter cocoons—it would help if, first of all, we define what [...]
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I come from a family of foodies. My mother’s a great cook, as were her mother and grandmother before her. My dad was a great cook, as was his mother before him. Both my grandmas came of age during the Great Depression, so they knew a thing or two about growing their own food and [...]
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Do you put pressure on yourself to have the perfect summer, sort of like a lot of us pressure ourselves to have the perfect Christmas? I think we should focus, not on perfection, but on self-care. Here are a few ideas to kick off the summer. 1. Renew your relationship with seasonal fruits and vegetables. [...]
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Twenty years from now—should you live so long—you will have opportunity to reflect on the summer you’re living in right now. Imagine that you are already years into your future, and it’s a mild summer day, and you take a few moments to remember this day. In honor of St. Ignatius’s feast day July 31, [...]
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