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There are several places we learn to love ourselves. I believe the kitchen is one of the most sacred of all. It is where we may nourish our body with good food and our souls with delicious friends. We just moved to a new home and so I have a new kitchen and a new
Unpublished Work © 2011 Cristina Carlino
“No bees no honey, no work no money.” And a bunch of other proverbs and famous song lyrics about working (remember, “Hi Ho, Hi Ho It’s Off to Work We Go?”); that seem to wrap it up neatly except they leave out one important truth. And that is that there is something even larger at
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That voice within that tells you to go right when you are determined to turn left. It is the sixth sense that sends a message to every cell in your body that says, “what you know is right even when everyone else is telling you you’re wrong.” It whispers in your ear, “be true to
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And all the laughter that comes with it. The legendary comic actor, Charlie Chaplin, wrote, “a day without laughter is a day wasted.” And who wants to waste a precious day? Laughter is our Seventh Sense. It’s a free ticket to a good any-time joy ride. It’s an alchemist and an elixir of youth. It
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Hooray for gifts. Wonderful, glorious gifts. The giving and receiving of them. Is it Christmas already? Someone you love’s birthday? Or just today and another package perfectly selected just for us? If only we can remember to unwrap it and look inside. Gratitude is a gift unto itself - it is the muscle that reminds
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“Food, Glorious food, wonderful food, marvelous food.” True that! Do you know those lyrics from the famed 1960’s Broadway Musical, “Oliver?” Story has it that Oliver, (based on the Dickens classic, Oliver Twist,) is a half starved orphan living in an old English workhouse along with dozens of other unwanted orphans. As they que
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And I am forever grateful that education is not just a classroom. It is life in session everyday in every moment in a learning and teaching opportunity. It is open to all of any age who are not looking to graduate with a diploma but to earn the honors that come with an open heart
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Where would life be without it?
And I am so grateful to be hopefully (not hopelessly) devoted. I do like the hit song with the same name and believe me, I’ve been there in the past. But today I know in my soul that devotion is not obsession. It is human love in its purest but
…and the other “c” blessings they bring us
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Like “c” for creativity and change and curiosity. “Curioser and Curioser” as the beautiful little girl, Alice, said in “Alice in Wonderland.” To children, the world is a wonderland. And I am so grateful for them and to them. To those old souls in young precious bodies that range
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Welcome to week two of our Alphabet of Gratitude. I am delighted and grateful so many of you are joining me in this 26 week/26 letters of the alphabet and world filled with things to be grateful for journey. Practicing gratitude for me is a daily exercise and the best work out my soul can