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    REDUCE YOUR BRAIN’S BLIND SPOTS: How cognitive training enhances self-awareness

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    EXERCISE AS PLAY: Movement, mindfulness and mental health

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    COMPLICATIONS, CONTRADICTIONS, CONFUSIONS: 3 words that became markers on a mindful path

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    TSYPL: The best—and most mindful—stock to invest in right now

    Full moon behind a rural house - “Sturgeon Moon” and 3 Other Poems With Passion

    POEMS BY GEORGE PAYNE: Sturgeon Moon, That Morning In Athens and more

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    ALASKA WINGS: Soaring across the mountains while releasing fear and doubt

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    MINDFUL LEADERSHIP IN STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS: Empowering leaders to create positive change

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    HANAMI DREAMING: The start of spring in Japan

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    REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S POLITICAL REALITIES: We can prevail over ignorance, lies and Trump

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    IMPEDIMENTS FACED: A safe return home from La Paz, Mexico

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    TYING UP LOOSE ENDS: One last—and glorious—day in La Paz, Mexico [Part 7]

    Facebook on laptop in La Paz hotel room - NIGHT SEA JOURNEY: Buying back sanity in La Paz, Mexico

    NIGHT SEA JOURNEY: Buying back sanity in La Paz, Mexico [Part 6]

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Two men taking walk in nature on foggy day - A Sacred Earth Covenant: Honouring Our Earth in 4 Different Ways

A SACRED EARTH COVENANT: Honouring our green oasis in 4 distinct ways

Forrest Rivers·February 2, 2023
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I PICK DANDELIONS: An important part of our ecosystem

Emily L Quint Freeman·January 5, 2023
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THE MARVELS OF MOSS: The epitome of Japanese wabi-sabi

Emily L Quint Freeman·December 30, 2022
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AGENCY PERSONIFIED: An interview with social justice activist Mary Ellen Ratcliff

Max Reif·December 29, 2022
Huge Ginkgo Biloba tree in a palace garden in Japan - BEACONS OF HOPE: Planting seeds from Hiroshima

BEACONS OF HOPE: Planting seeds from Hiroshima

Emily L Quint Freeman·November 25, 2022
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PTERIDOMANIA—FERN MADNESS: My compass set on fragile hope and serenity

Emily L Quint Freeman·November 4, 2022
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LEAVES: Look, ponder, admire and breathe the air that leaves have given us

Emily L Quint Freeman·September 22, 2022
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ENDANGERED MONARCH BUTTERFLIES: From Michoacan to my garden

Emily L Quint Freeman·September 12, 2022
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BECOME A WATERFALL: Water songs during climate change

Emily L Quint Freeman·August 15, 2022
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SPIRAL PERFECTION: The consciousness of nature expanding inward and outward

Emily L Quint Freeman·June 4, 2022
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A MORNING WITH LUPINES AND FOXGLOVES: A garden goes nowhere, it never arrives, it never leaves

Emily L Quint Freeman·May 16, 2022
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RETICULATA AND BEARDED IRISES: The enduring inspiration of painters and garden-makers

Emily L Quint Freeman·April 28, 2022
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MINDFUL GARDENING: 5 ways gardening can be an exercise in mindfulness

Mia Barnes·April 27, 2022
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UNPLUGGING FROM ONLINE DATING: Time to reconnect with myself

Mel Bender·April 26, 2022
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A MORE MINDFUL APPROACH TO DIVERSITY: We must focus on unity, not division

Forrest Rivers·April 22, 2022
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HOW TO REWIRE YOUR MIND: Move from pessimism to optimism and enhance your life

Dain Dunston·April 10, 2022
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THE EDUCATION: The difference between lessons and education

Matthew Jacobs·April 9, 2022
UP CLOSE TO SPRING – The sound of a spring garden is as lovely as birdsong

UP CLOSE TO SPRING: The sound of a Spring garden is as lovely as birdsong

Emily L Quint Freeman·April 6, 2022
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THE DOS AND DON’TS OF A HEALTHY WORK ENVIRONMENT: Achieving serenity in your return-to-work life post-COVID-19

Corinne Isaacs-Frontiero·April 5, 2022
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ON WORDS AND IMAGES: Comparing the experience of writing a poem and making a painting (in a time of war)

Max Reif·April 2, 2022
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BE THOUGHTFUL TO OUR PLANET: 11 items you can reuse and repurpose

Mia Barnes·March 21, 2022
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GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK: Finding peace in a violent world

Matthew Jacobs·March 16, 2022
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THE GUEST OF THE EMPEROR: Finding the will to survive in a bonsai

Emily L Quint Freeman·March 8, 2022
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MENTAL HEALTH VS. MENTAL ILLNESS: Our words impact the world’s perceptions, stigmas, biases and incorrect assumptions

Corinne Isaacs-Frontiero·March 4, 2022
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