Place and Well Being – April 2012 Newsletter

April showers, ice rain, a bit of snow, some thunder and lightning, we’ve had it all in the past week! Even so the buds are about to pop on my plum tree and the squirrels are digging up the tender bulbs under the bird feeder.   Watching the wheel of the seasons can be a [...]

House Guests & Fish – July Newsletter 2011

Welcome to summer and the arrival of visitors, or perhaps your own departure to the sofas and guest rooms of others. The original quote, “Fish and house guests smell after three days” is attributed to several different people on the Internet, with Benjamin Franklin getting the most votes.   My Oxford Dictionary of Quotations says that [...]

What is in the Way – November 2010 Newsletter

Just before the clock “falls back” I like to take a moment to enjoy the daylight at about 5:30PM. There is something magical about the low angle of the light at this particular season, and soon I know the hours will be compressed into our short Northwest winter days. But how much will that compression [...]

Get UnStuck: January 2010 Newsletter

The reviews of 2009 are rolling in some want to remind us of the positive while others focus on the bad, bad, bad. The articles I read seem to swing back and forth between attitudes of deep gloom and determined optimism. I wonder if it might be more functional to stand somewhere in the middle. [...]

Exploring Meditation : ADD Friendly Beginning Steps

ADD Resources Seattle Adult Support Group If you’ve ever wondered just how to get started with meditation, without signing up for a spiritual practice, wearing strange colors or bending yourself into a pretzel….this may be your opportunity. The benefit of meditation in managing stress, time management issues and general distractibility have been widely documented. In [...]

ADD Strategies for Clutter and Time Management

Clutter clearing and simple organizing principals to help you handle paper, and create systems that work for YOU. We’ll look at time management skills for people dealing with the special challenges of ADD Dates: 2 Tuesdays, July 13 and 20th, 2010 6:30  – 8:30 Shoreline Community College Fee: $49, To register please go to: http://www.shoreline.edu/ce/

Create Space: December 2009 Newsletter

Greetings from The Composed Domain The sales are filling the newspapers, the neighbors are all out on the roof stringing extension cords, and instead of the typical chaos of the season, I confess to feeling quite calm. This could be due to the several turkey pot pies in the freezer, but I think it’s because [...]