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Grandfather Tree

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This poem is about an Australian eucalyptus gum tree that I call Grandfather Tree.  I live but a stones throw away and am greeted each morning by the sun rising through the limbs of this great tree as it peeps over our garden wall.

This magnificent old tree (which must be at least 200 years of age) is all that is left in our immediate area of the Gnangara Forest.   This is being slowly cleared and decimated to allow for homes like ours, which is extremely sad.  The tree is now a focal point of the local park surrounded by a small area of natural bush,  where families gather to play and walk their dogs.

Whilst walking my black Labrador Jet, around the park he darted off into the bush, and so following him under the canopy of the trees arrived at the huge base of Grandfather Tree.  I decided to sit…

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“I allow the information I need
to come to my senses by
paying attention to
what is before me.

I see that the world gives me
whatever is needed if I simply
open my eyes and ears.

The world is giving me constant feedback
on the thoughts I hold in my mind.

It provides clues to where
I might find what I am looking for.

I pause. I listen. I follow my heart.

Grandmother, guide me with
the star-bright song of
your timeless way.

I seek to bring
plenty to my people.”

~Carol Bridges

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“I know in my heart of hearts that I cannot help but do the best reading possible. I know in my soul that I cannot live without giving someone the gift of my love. I cannot survive a life without a spirited desire to share my heart.”

– Debra Silverman

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Predicting the Future

“Predicting the Future? When people consult me, it’s not that I’m
reading the future; I am guessing at the
future. The future belongs to [a Higher
Being], and it is only he who reveals it,
under extraordinary circumstances.
How do I guess at the future? Based on
the omens of the present. The secret is
here in the present. If you pay attention to
the present, you can improve upon it.
And if you improve on the present,
what comes later will also be better.”

~ The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

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Stretch for Achilles Tendonitis

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If you experience Achilles Tendinitis, or just an irritation of the Achilles Tendon, as I did when I thought I could just jump into working at my new retail job, doing non stop physical labor for my entire shifts, the following is a good exercise. 

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from The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons

Exercise. The following exercise can help to strengthen the calf muscles and reduce stress on the Achilles tendon.

Calf stretch

Calf stretch

  • Calf stretch
    Lean forward against a wall with one knee straight and the heel on the ground. Place the other leg in front, with the knee bent. To stretch the calf muscles and the heel cord, push your hips toward the wall in a controlled fashion. Hold the position for 10 seconds and relax. Repeat this exercise 20 times for each foot. A strong pull in the calf should be felt during the stretch.

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Beat Marketers at Their Own Game, By James Dennin

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Marketing isn’t just the vaguely ambiguous professional explanation for your lax bro friend’s summer home; it’s also often to blame for many of your impulse purchases. My dukes are out for whoever invented those roving internet ads that invade your Instagram feed every time you talk yourself down from yet another compulsive purchase (that marketer owes me big time). In this week’s Strategy newsletter, we’ll be talking about marketing gimmicks and the psychological forces that make us fall prey to them.

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Prime yourself for level-headedness by keeping a picture of your family nearby a work computer. That’s according to Linjiang Lora Tu, a professor of marketing at the Baylor University Hankamer School of Business. Professor Tu’s got a new paper about one the most famous marketing gimmicks of all time: charging $0.99 for something instead of a dollar (a tactic known as “nine-ending pricing”)…

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The Little Bird

A nice addition to the Strength Reversed theme here:

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The morning we brought Ellie home, I was out with Cricket in the morning and we came across a little robin, sort of hopping on the walkway in stutter steps, and then belly flopping onto the grass. Cricket had had a moment of uneasiness with her legs a few minutes earlier, possibly as a result of the ACE she takes to tolerate grooming, so I was extra sensitive to motor problems in animals at that particular moment. When I tried to get closer to the robin to see what was wrong, though, she hopped behind a line of bushes and disappeared.

021 Not the exact bird, but a relative.

We saw the robin again in the afternoon, when she was bravely crossing the lawn to the tree-side, in her faltering little hops. The bird was able to sort of hop/fly up onto the first step of the retaining wall, where she…

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