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		<title>Take Time for An &#8220;R&#8221; word</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 22:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Serendipitously, after recent knee replacement, I found  myself playing with many  &#8221;R&#8221; words: Rejuvenate, Replenish, Relax, Recoup, Recover, Regroup, Rest, and more. These words do not describe the activities that I have typically allowed myself to behaviorally embrace in my life.  Yet, with the requirement to recover from major surgery, I am here.  And I find myself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take time to grieve II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The need to grieve can creep up on you without your awareness.  Yes, I&#8217;ve called it sadness in another post. Yes, I&#8217;ve acknowledged the importance of grief in the scheme of life changes before.  This time it really caught me by surprise.  After 9 months of moving, selling my home,  and getting settled in senior living, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take time to treasure the moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I gave $1.  A small amount.  Yet, it was rare for me to do this.  He was a nicely dressed  30-ish man  standing outside a large chain store, with a locked box, hoping for a contribution to his cause. I hadn&#8217;t intended to participate. And I kept moving. When he saw I was having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take time for a detour</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My errands done, I was heading back home on a Friday afternoon. Rte 9, the road connecting to super highway 91 was really backed up.  So I thought, I don&#8217;t want to sit in this traffic, what&#8217;s another way?  A detour!  On an unpaved road through the farm fields  in my Pioneer Valley of Western [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take time to &#8220;feel&#8221; it through</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been feeling sad and somewhat reluctantly giving myself time to cry.    I realize that&#8217;s been a mistake.  Although taking time to &#8220;think&#8221; through a difficult problem  may seem like the more usual and prudent approach in handling one&#8217;s affairs , I want to at least put another idea on the table. Sometimes the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take Time to &#8220;Do It&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have things lingering in the back of your mind, surfacing over and over with the thought:  &#8221;I&#8217;ve got to get to this?&#8221;  It could be anything&#8211; calling a friend after months or years, scattering a parent&#8217;s ashes which had been occupying the closet for far too long, making an overdue apology, keeping a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take time to toss</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the very day when I had invited one of my helpers over to sort and recyle some of my books, Katie Couric was publicly admitting to being consumed by clutter and sharing what she did about it.   This on her 10 am morning TV show where I serendipitously landed in an occasional moment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take time to receive a gift of time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a Nor&#8217;easter upon us in New England.  While many have very good reasons to dread this onslaught, and fear the potential danger and damage, for me it happens to be an unplanned, unanticipated, gift of time&#8230;to do not much. And that&#8217;s something I continue to struggle to allow myself.  I started musing about &#8220;welcoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take time to appreciate &#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Appreciation of self and of others is life affirming.  It&#8217;s a focus on what&#8217;s good.  And focusing on what&#8217;s good generates positive energy that heals.  I participated in giving the gift of appreciation yesterday and the memory of the impact on me and on my companion haven&#8217;t left me.  When I think about what a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take time to entertain what crosses your path</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha</dc:creator>
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