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Aging Gracefully: Lessons in Courage
Sometimes the saying is true: We teach what we most need to learn. I’ve taken ski lessons since the age of seven, and have always hated them. I’ve been led down chutes, over precip …
Aging Gracefully: Skiing Over Fifty
My husband and I have danced our ski dance for years. With gusto for the sport, he extols an “epic” ski day; I casually mention the whiteout. He pushes for steeps; I retreat to gro …
Expand, Live, Mindfulness
The Mindful Vacation
Halfway into our silent seven-day mindfulness retreat my husband and I had a whopping argument. At least in my mind. One-sided fights are a challenge when you can’t talk. Howard an …
A Model for Our Time
Salt Lake Solutions promotes citizen-driven projects. by Debbie Leaman Perched on the bank of the Jordan River in the Euclid neighborhood close to the bustle of I-80, a stately Vic …
Vitamin D Deficiency: An Epidemic
Sunlight is vital for the human body to produce vitamin D, key to musculoskeletal, immune system and mental health. This essential vitamin helps maintain bone density and strength, …
The Yin and Yang of Day and Night
Light and dark are in cahoots, making a body healthy and balanced: Sunlight (or a reasonable facsimile) is the key to a restful night’s sleep—and so much more.by Debbie Leama …
Within and Without: Smarty Study
A feng shui practitioner, a tutor specializing in ADD/ADHD, a nutritionist and a sleep specialist weigh in on good study habits. by Debbie Leaman "I will study and get ready, …
It’s the End of the World?
Environmental despair as a tool for healing: An interview with Theresa Holleran. I admit it – I don’t read newspapers as thoroughly as my politically minded mother woul …
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"Smile, observe and learn so you can plan your own version of these rites of passage. Learn from the past just don’t get a PhD in it."--Dennis Hinkamp on the good and bad nostalgic tendencies.
Slightly Off Center: September 2018 | Catalyst Magazine
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Nostalgia at the shallow end Nostalgia is a public pool filled with warm memories at the shallow end, but in the deep end there be monsters disguised as beguiling Sirens. You may enter smiling but drown there if you are not careful. Take your ex-spouse, ex-dog or ex any-no-longer-living human being....