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Keener

Arizona vanity license plate

 

Work van in parking lot
Random parking lot photo of random van. Keener?

 

The front table of students were writing notes and the class had not yet begun. The teacher struck up a conversation since she had never met the students before – their enthusiasm was intriguing.

They proclaimed they were all ‘Keeners’.

What’s a Keener?

The student’s use of the word keener is perfect.

Turns out the whole room was.

A teacher’s dream come true.

And yes, proof that attitude is everything.

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People talk about ‘living in the moment’. This is it.

Church support offerings for troubled teens
What if we could teach children in such a way that the offerings here would be completely opposite

 

What would being a midlife mystic feel like?

  • never having an insignificant day
  • finding joy in the mundane
  • finding honor in the mundane
  • keeping expectations sparse, simple, and low
  • being lean

People talk about ‘living in the moment’. This is it.

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Everyone already knows this and it doesn’t excite us

Florida Mockingbird on rooftop
Neighborhood meeting concluded and having another meeting to attend to. – pause and do the impossible…

 

Florida Mockingbird on rooftop
Ever talk to a Mockingbird? Not if we’re too busy, too distracted, too medicated.

 

Who is in love with exploring what’s impossible?

Everyone already knows what’s possible.

It’s the stuff that lies past what’s possible that the explorer in us yearns to get a glimpse of.

For instance, is it (im)possible to enjoy the simplest of pleasures – like the daily sunrise and sunset – in our busy, distracted, medicated, and entertained world?

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Every single day brings the opportunity for the freshness of perspective

Obituary
Stunned by the news. Al was only 53, with a wife and three child under 15.

 

Freshness of perspective?

What would it feel like to have three overwhelming events happen on the same day?:

  • neighbor says her 22-year old daughter thought Mid Life Celebration (your book) was ‘fantastic’!
  • email sharing that 53-year old father of your child’s classmates just passed away
  • a colleague bestows generosity and kindness beyond amazing

All unexpected.

All powerful.

All emotional.

All reminding us of life’s beauty and life’s harsh reality.

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Guest blogger Lorie Sheffer: Choose wisely

We all tend to do it; someone makes an insulting or negative comment about us and we replay it over and over in our mind.

Imagine if we were to pay less attention to the negative and instead replay the positive, kind comments.

Happiness is a choice; we have the choice to focus on the negative or focus on the positive.

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