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Category Archives: Odds and Ends
Fitness is freedom
Fitness is freedom. I wonder how many of us have ever considered this sage bit of philosophizing. I hadn’t. As I whizzed down an aisle in our local supermarket a week or so ago, following the COVID arrows in the … Continue reading
Posted in Odds and Ends, Running
Tagged aging, fitness, freedom, independence, Runner's World, seniors
32 Comments
Run-walking my way through Tuscany – virtually
A few months ago I posted that I had begun a virtual challenge – within my own timeframe and my own personally acceptable modes of trekking – to trek the St Francis Way. I chose it because the 503 kms … Continue reading
Posted in Odds and Ends, Running
Tagged Assisi, Conqueror Challenge, Italy, St Francis Way, Tuscany, virtual challenges
15 Comments
Embracing those 20 bonus years? How about 50 bonus years?!
Pretty well exactly a year ago (seems like a lifetime ago), I wrote a blog post called “Embracing those twenty bonus years“. I’ve borrowed the same cartoon for this post because its message seems to say it all; at some … Continue reading
Posted in Just wondering, Odds and Ends
Tagged ageless, aging, Andrew Steele, biogerentology, David Sinclair, employment, health, humor, humour, lifespan, Methuselah, Retirement
57 Comments
So many ways to spread the joy of reading
Yesterday a fellow blogger introduced her readers to I Read Canadian Day. Thanks, Debra. I was a bit taken aback that I hadn’t heard of this special day before, but in looking it up I see that this is only … Continue reading
Self-kindness includes self-esteem
Two weeks ago I posted about self-kindness and the related benefits of being lazy. It’s hard not to be attracted by that advice! In reading about what other advice is out there, one expert suggests that you should concentrate on … Continue reading
Posted in Odds and Ends, Thoughtful Thursday
Tagged philosophy, self-care, self-compassion, self-esteem, self-kindness, self-love
27 Comments
Let’s start with self-kindness – be willing to be lazy
When I mused about planning a year-long birthday project focused on kindness in my previous post, fellow blogger Crystal Byers, who writes the inspiring blog Faith + Gratitude = Peace + Hope, suggested that I could always start with self-kindness. … Continue reading
A new year – a gift of time
A fellow blogger in Australia posted this message for her readers this morning (thanks, Kate). A New Year is like a blank slate, it has 12 chapters and 365 pages, and you are the author. My wish for you this … Continue reading
Posted in Odds and Ends
Tagged gift of time, new year, philosophy, positivity, time, well-being, writing
29 Comments
A COVID kind of year-end
Usually this is the week when I review my success or lack thereof with my New Year’s resolutions from the past year and decide on my resolutions for the coming year. I’ve been doing this all my life; it didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Odds and Ends
Tagged blog stats, blogging, COVID, COVID-19. social justice, Map Monday, New Year's, New Year's resolutions, racism, world map
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