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- Very good tips for cardio exercises. I regularly do this but didn't get any results. May be I am lacking something. Will try to correct from the tips mentioned above.
- Active listening is such a good thing to communicate with others many people says thta being a good listener means your a good friend
- Enjoyment - the moments that we can let ourselves go without hesitation, fear, self-consciousness, or anxiety and just let ourselves smile and relish in the moment are sometimes when we are most...
- I find that enjoyment comes through restriction for me. The more disciplined I am, the happier I am as well. There's something powerful about being completely in control of one's self.
- i'm going to forgive myself for making little mistakes like not doing spellcheck when i send out important emails.
Carrie and Danielle
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Pens, such as calligraphy nibs and felt tip pens. I adore fine, flowing, gorgeous handwriting and rich, stark black ink on paper: The movement and variation in strokes. I'd love to take up Chinese Calligraphy. I also have a lot of notebooks, as writing is vital to me.
I also collect oriental items. They're beautiful and help me connect to my heritage. The legendary beauties have black hair and brown eyes. They look like me, and they're nothing like Western icons. Even the mountains in China and Japan are shaped differently. They just speak to me.
I'm also building up cards, writing paper, envelopes and craft items, because hand-written notes are just wonderful.
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'maxim "Own nothing you do not consider beautiful or useful"
What is beautiful AND usefu: l I collect things that tell me my story. Some are valuable in financial terms and of equal value and beauty to me would be a rock marbeled in an interesting way I got from a beach during a happy holiday. I love the color of sunlit sea and sky. vases and open containers feature..
What I do not collect is clutter
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A month or two I loved the brave women who confessed on this blog that they kept lots of books to look "brainy" I really felt that statement. Yikes but at least I am not alone. I had been in that space and had formed my own conclusion some years before "People are free to assess my intelligence (or otherwise) by meeting me. What i have on my book shelf is not going to help one way or another.
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And I am free to assess my intelligence as is any one else who is so inclined. Thanks for that Jennifersage.
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Oh - and I also "collect" recipes - you know - I'll try it one day (soon)....
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Blue and white dishes from garage sales (none of my dishes match in pattern, only colour).
Corks (to be repurposed into cork boards).
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I love white (and blue/white dishes) too!
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I have tried to slow him down by telling him "Buy one and give two away" I can't begin to imagine what his SS would be. He loves Asian artwork. horses, statues of Bhudda, flowers, blue and white almost anything, plump cushions from all over the world English country life, scented soaps. The list goes on. His home is like nothing I have ever seen. One mans clutter is another persons SS. It is multitextured, mutlicolored and utterly unique. It would in fact cruel to deprive him of the sensory experience he lives in. I love visiting and hanging out there. Oh and did I mention the rose scented house perfume? And the Tibetian chanting? And the all to delicious wine and food?
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I used to collect green McCoy pottery. I still have my collection, but I no longer add to it.
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I collect found heart shaped rocks and Mary statues also!
Love flea markets and tag sales, but not clutter! Happy hunting...
I also collect vintage 'state' trays. Tthese beverage trays were sold in souvenir shops and typically have an illustration of the state, state flower, sometimes state birds,cities and towns. Really fun & kitschy!
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Beautiful writing journals
Christmas ornaments (every year we buy one new special ornament to add to our collection)
My children's artwork (one of these days I'm going to frame some of them and hang them on the wall!)
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And the poor, sad little family heirlooms that no one else in my family wants to claim. When they're still useful, or if they're beautiful in some way, I just can't let them go.
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I collect shoes, regardless of how many years it has been since I wore them last, I can't give them up.
..and most if not all my boarding passess from flights taken for personal or business reasons. The stack reminds me how much I love taking off and how much I love coming home.
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I also collect poems. I have a little leather bound journal that I have been copying my favorite poems into for years and years. I love bringing it with me when I travel and can't be near my poetry books. It is my own personal anthology.
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2. Placecards - these hold the names of my guests at a dinner table. Instead of names (I don't care for "assigned" seating) I put scratch lottery tickets, a scripture or quote, or question of the evening that allows each guest to share something about themselves (much like Carrie & Danielle's daily Q&A).
Can you tell I love to entertain?
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It was given to the lecturer by another nurse who had worked a pretty rugged week at her hospice and had gone for a walk on a beach to cry out her feelings. She threw herself down on the sand well away from anyone else crying her eyes out. When she opened them and looked down, there between her feet was a circle of broken shells and in the centre of the shells was this small heart shaped rock on the golden Nelson sand.
Picture the saddest moment in your life and imagine the universe gifting you with that! It is so awesome. Naturally I did not get that heart shaped rock. It is a sacred symbol that the lecturer shares with each and every nurse she educates.
I comminsioned an artist to paint that because it reminds me that our broken places are what enable us to reach out to others with compassion. It sits in our den and I get lost in it. Nature got there first but Janet (the artist) came through for me with a beatufully rendered watercolor painting.
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that is so sweet.thank you for telling me. I brought a very pretty perspex heart necklace in my faovourite colors today. I am wearing it. What makes it interesting is it hangs slightly off centre
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Quotes that speak to me.
Juicy looking/sounding cookbooks!
Jewelery from trips abroad.
Dishes, 2nd hand, new, foreign...most often plates.
Shoes!
Basically anything I LOVE at first sight that I know I'll go to over and over again.
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Now I collect people who are spiritually curious and I have the emotional resources to be a wife and mother and also write twice as much now.
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drums (djembes, doumbeks, doundounba, tongue drums, petal drums) and shakers
and didgeridoos and boomwhackers and singing bowls and cow bells and anything that makes fun sounds like boing or ka-choink.
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I don't collect anything in terms of stuff. We have a rule in our home. One thing in, one thing out. And the rule is very loose. For example, fabulous, new Coach sunglasses in...stack of Vanity Fair back issues out. I really like to pass things on...books, items no longer useful - no matter the value. I keep life as simple as possible, and will admit a penchant for white, like Carrie. Strangely enough, my morning robe is a kimono (like Danielle). If I can't pack up and flee the country in 24 hours, I've aquired too many things.
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I also collect birds(mostly raptors), craft supplies, and books on mythology and folklore.
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love u!
rock on!!
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I collect pencils, too. I love the way pencil glides on paper.
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check him out!
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Quotes--I was an English major, and I LOVE a good quote!
Pill boxes--small, beautiful little tokens that remind me of trips I've taken or milestones I"ve passed.
Betty Neels romance novels--I have 127 of the 134 she wrote, many of them first editions that are older than I am. I love her writing because unlike more modern romance novels, there are no sex scenes (she was a proper British lady). If I want romance, I read Betty Neels.
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This is anything like room keys, towels, hairdryers, soap, shampoo, showercaps, tv guides, cards, mints, pens, a few hats, aprons, badges etc. generous employees have donated...basically anything with the hotel logo on it.
I'm surprised I haven't gotten in trouble for this strange habit actually.
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