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    International Literacy Day September 8th

    While many of us support literacy projects year round, International Literacy Day provides an important opportunity for us to recognize the vital role literacy plays in our communities and the world. I encourage you to use this day to launch new literacy initiatives in your community or consider working...
    Posted to Parkes ponders (Weblog) by Helen Parkes on 09-07-2008
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    Building strong communities

    "For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other". Millard Fuller Lets aim for building whole healthy communities. Share your stories and your insights and show how much you care. I really value this space to be able to express how this...
    Posted to Parkes ponders (Weblog) by Helen Parkes on 08-29-2008
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    Settling to a pattern

    I have settled into a pattern of feeling comfortable with my change projects and beng able to manage my busy scedule quite well now. No more concerns about what I might have missed or forgotten! The email reminders keep me on track really well. I think I am so used to being busy and trying to hold it...
    Posted to Parkes ponders (Weblog) by Helen Parkes on 08-29-2008
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    Be Impulsive!

    "The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community." William James (1842 - 1910) Some things never change - this is still relevant today, so lets start being impulsive and post a blog, make a comment or reply to a forum...
    Posted to Parkes ponders (Weblog) by Helen Parkes on 08-21-2008
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    Happiness and Dung

    Is it really true that people can live in an area with no running water or electricity and dwell in huts made out of dung and be equally as happy as those listed on the Forbes richest 400 Americans? According to leading happiness researcher Ed Diener it is true. He conducted a study of the Forbes richest...
    Posted to elishagoldstein (Weblog) by Elisha Goldstein on 08-11-2008
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    1 poem that may just change our life!

    Mary Oliver makes us go hmmmm..... Read this one twice...feel free to click on 'tools' and briefly write down your reaction in your journal. Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean-the one who the one who has flung herself...
    Posted to elishagoldstein (Weblog) by Elisha Goldstein on 08-06-2008
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    ... and I do feel welcome

    I've been part of the Aliveworld Team for a couple of months now, and I certainly feel welcomed. I'm a musician and a (would-be) writer with a broad life experience behind and, I suspect, in front of me. I have a strong interest in personal and spiritual growth, and Aliveworld offers the perfect...
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    Aliveworld facilitates real changes that are life enhancing.

    I have observed my husband come into Aliveworld and check it out. He was initially attempting to support me and my endeavours here, then he wanted to understand how it worked and so he joined and began working through the free "Change Your Future" Guide. Initially he thought there was nothing...
    Posted to Parkes ponders (Weblog) by Helen Parkes on 07-29-2008
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    Sounds familiar.

    I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult. E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
    Posted to Parkes ponders (Weblog) by Helen Parkes on 07-27-2008
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    Work ranks as #1 stressor for people, tips on what you can do now!

    A recent poll conducted by Elizabeth Scott,, M.S., Stress Management Consultant, found that the top stressor for people is found at work! So what can we do? Here are some more tips from Mindful Healing on how to practice to reduce stress through the workday: As the workday begins, slightly slow down...
    Posted to elishagoldstein (Weblog) by Elisha Goldstein on 07-24-2008
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