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Giving Your Best

Thursday Aug 30 2007

By Shae Hadden
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As the evenings get cooler and days shorter here, summer holidays wind down. Everyone seems to be preparing for the start of September, and looking forward to the last real weekend before things start up again. Most everyone I talk with has enjoyed some of the summer outside with family and friends, and I find myself experiencing a twinge of regret. For me, the last few months have been a blur of work indoors in front of the computer, interspersed with a few brief moments of relaxation. This afternoon, I am acknowledging that I have ‘missed’ this summer altogether in my efforts to fulfill as many of my commitments as possible.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Personal Empowerment

Tagged with: choice commitment perspective relationship time

The Mirror of New

Friday Mar 09 2007

By Shae Hadden
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Snow blankets the crocuses today... I can see the remnants of autumn leaves nourishing the roots of these fragile blooms, reminding me that the blossoming of new growth is part of life's natural cycles of birth and death. I've been looking at myself and my life from the perspective of 'new' for the last while...(see my post on the Mirror of Old) and the view has freed me. Each morning, I've taken an extra moment to really look at myself in the mirror, to take in the woman staring back at me as if she is someone I'm creating anew each day. The signs of age are still visible, but I see something else I hadn't noticed before.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Personal Empowerment

Tagged with: forgiveness imperfection incompletion past perspective