We are all angels in disguise We just watched the movie “Michael” again. John Travolta plays a large, overweight, hard smoking, sugar addicted.angel to perfection! I love the humanity that Nora Ephron shows in this depiction of an angelic messenger. In the film, Michael has almost all the women attracted to him. Each lady has…
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Family The blog is easier when I am out in the world connecting with folks. Today we went to the tenth annual Roy Smith memorial party at the home of his previous wife Sarah and her adoring husband Nano. They live in the small little hamlet of Cornville Arizona. They have a delightful home under…
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What will be your legacy? “Welcome to my morning, welcome to my day Oh yes I’m the one responsible, I made it just this way To make myself some pictures and see what they might bring I think I made it perfectly, I wouldn’t change a thing” Those wonderful words from John Denver’s…
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How long will you live? Happiness and attitude are very important. Optimism is a trait that is linked with longer life spans. Even studies support this. A 2011 study found that the group of older people that scored as the happiest had a death rate of 3.6%, which is less than half of the death…
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Aloha, It has been ten weeks now since we began this blog. I named it Heart to Heart from a John Denver song of the same name. We spend so much time in our minds trying to figure out life. The mind is a wonderful thing, waste it! A joke about how much power we…
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Life Lou Ann and I went to see the movie “The Glass Castle” this afternoon. It was very depressing to watch and reminded me so much of my childhood. It was based on a true story about an alcoholic abusive father and a mother who allowed him to continue his horrible behavior. There…
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Aloha Tonight, Lou Ann and I went to our fourth women’s march in Sedona this year . There were 150 people there standing up for Heather Heyer the woman who was run down by a white supremacist in Charlottesville Virginia. Several speakers spoke mostly of love and standing up to tyranny. Not about revenge our…
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Treasure Every Moment We went out to eat at a local Mexican restaurant here in the Village of Oak Creek for lunch today. We sat outside and Lou Ann received birthday flowers from her daughter Uma while we were there. As we were eating we noticed a man being helped into his car by a…
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Do it now! As you can observe if you read my blogs, John Denver was one of my heroes. The music he wrote and sang were transcendent in nature. So many lyrics that have brightened my saddest nights and given me courage to do things a better way. Twenty years ago on October 19th he…
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“The Gift You Are” Having a wonderful day celebrating Lou Ann’s birthday. I made her a vegan chocolate cake which we are about to eat. Birthdays of course are annual reminders of when we started this current incarnation. They are also days when gifts are given and received. In my family growing up, we…
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