Category: Week 4
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Vacation incoming… It’s Christmas time! Kids are off from school, and many people are set to start vacations and holiday time off. As we head into the two weeks of Christmas and New Years most of us have a little extra time on our hands. Whether you have a million things you want to do…
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Liquid happiness… Coffee…it’s the best part of my day. It’s so great that I make it the best part of my day multiple times throughout the day! And of course, the fresh, clear, cold air of winter enhances that simple daily pleasure. Sniff the fresh air, sip the delicious aromatic coffee, sniff, sip, sniff, sip.…
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The sound of winter… Imagine looking out the window into the black freezing night. A streetlamp stands outside illuminating a cone of the road and sidewalks. A little speck of white briefly crosses the yellow light. Then another. Then two followed by five little white fluffs. What do you hear? Certainly quiet and silence are…
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Winter fragrance… On a winter’s afternoon traveling home from a day filled with activity the still cold air hangs with a perfume of watery cleanliness and freshness: snow is coming. Once home a warm draft of mulling spices and firewood entices and beguiles the senses into deep respiration – a sigh of contentedness. Someone opens…
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Rule of threes… Today marks the end of the first third of my 10 Weeks of Winter project and the beginning of the remaining two-thirds. I discussed the challenge inherent in thirds last week in the post Thirds of Change, but there is another aspect of thirds to consider when benchmarking, building, composing, or creating…
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Better in the dark… Mid-December appears in a bejeweled cloak of darkness. Neighborhoods where gowns of glowing red, green, blue, and soft white light. Christmas trees look lordly upon the sidewalks, and downtown buildings and avenues blaze with rows lighted roofs, eaves, and trees. Even the crane operators working construction all over the booming downtown…