My surprise is this photo. Jasmine are invisible outside my window until they burst like a wedding bouquet. I have been celebrating warm days, dahlias, and peaks of vegetable seeds coming up green that I started in my garage. I love the surprise of looking at them daily, like newborns…well not exactly like that,
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Can you find the four leaf clover in the photo? Would you feel lucky if you did? When I asked about luck on telephone consults, these were some of the responses: 1. I don’t believe in accidents. Everything happens for a reason.2. I don’t believe in luck. I have to make it.3. I for
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It is Spring Break .Some parents are vacationing with their children. That is not true for me. I am trying to stop the chatter in my head that keeps me indoors rather than out during these peaks of Spring. Here is some of my inner clatter: It looks too windy. I need to finish
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I asked this question in a group and many said, “When my children got into college, married, loved their job out of college, had grandchildren, moved close to them, vacationed without their children, got healthy, downsized, made a career change, finally learned how to grow organic vegetables, took up ceramics, wrote their book, were featured
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A father called excited about his daughter coming home for Spring Break. She has been shivering in snow and boring meals. He is ready to connect and treat her well. They are driving to warmer climates and relaxation, just the two of them. Empty Nesters have called asking for tips during the Spring Break re-unite
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I remember a woman once said to me,”If you don’t feel nervous , you aren’t really becoming more of who you might be.” Well, for now, I choose not to be judged on a Red Carpet for how I look or act and yet if I were nominated to walk the Red Carpet, I
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Spring is slowly showing herself. Parents have been sharing with me what they look forward to doing for fun. Most feel embarrassed to say it out loud, “I don’t really know what I like doing that is simply for fun. I am such a worker bee, and doer.” Can you relate? Work is fun so
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This is one of my favorite dusk photos I shot. Now that I have more free time, I grab my digital and step outside, sometimes in a robe, just to catch a surprise. I hope each of you finds something that lifts you and excites you to step out. Send me your ideas
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The photo is outside my office window. In the winter it looks like dead leaves . Suddenly, this red closed bud, appears in a vine, spreading. Soon it will open to white fragrant jasmine. Spring is near. A new beginning, again.So how can you open to something new for yourself? 1. Step SMALL, no leaps.
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Do you feel like you are in the thick of it and just want a little opening of a better day? For some parents, college acceptance letters are arriving , for others Spring Break with children deciding not to come home or the anxiety of transition, home and then gone again, differences and needs and
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Cooking. Well not all of you. I met a woman last night at a celebration party who gave it up. What replaced that creativity? Nonprofit work for an author, long walks and whatever. She was so calm and clear about doing a little of this and a little of that which sounds like how she
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When I was in Vancouver I tried new foods and new trails. The advantage of being a Boomer and Empty Nester is that I can make a wish list and actually complete it without watching the clock or dashing to the grocery store. Vancouver had been on my wish list for years.
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Natalie Caine, M.A. natalie@lifeintransition.org