From the monthly archives:

February 2010

Learning Changes Us… or Does It?

by Barbara Hartsook on February 27, 2010 · 33 comments

in Life Lessons,Personal Growth

Learning is such fun. It’s profitable. And it changes us. But only if we apply it. Four of us rode together, returning home from a weekend motivational conference. We broke the trip in half by stopping for lunch. I had picked up on an idea early in the weekend and was excited to try it [...]

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The Superbowl is behind us, and with March coming, Madness will soon keep us near the flat-screens. Shortly after that we’ll have The Opener. All American sports… football, basketball, baseball… soccer, track, volleyball. Great fun… but are sports good for life beyond the game? Can learning to play sports teach kids how to live life? [...]

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Even the most casual snapshot can be a treasure for finding a reference for painting a portrait. If it draws your eye more than once, chances are you sense a story to be told, written, or painted. This stock photo was given to participants in a painting contest at Innographx.com/forum a year ago, with instructions [...]

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We Attract to Us That Which We Are

by Barbara Hartsook on February 3, 2010 · 16 comments

in Blogging,Relationships

We attract to us that which we are… I read that years ago. I was young enough it stuck as a piece of esoteric philosophy… Understood only by the initiated… But as the years have evolved, the truth of that statement has manifested itself. Slowly perhaps, but none the less. Life has initiated me, and [...]

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