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Twog's Blog – November 2011 Archive (4)

Thanksgiving Day Gratitude

          Thanksgiving is my favorite "American" holiday. It is a celebration of life, of the harvest, of the power of people coming together, of remembering. Although it wasn't a holiday until Lincoln made it one, the story it tells is powerful mythology. Early European settlers fleeing persecution in Europe, for their ideals, would have died out but for the help of local Native American communities. Thanksgiving Day commemorates their profound generosity, the neighborliness that resulted,…

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Added by Twog on November 25, 2011 at 12:55pm — 1 Comment

Energy for Transition

As we make our way to a lower level of cheap energy use we need to find ways to increase our energy for our own personal Transitions. Daily life can sometimes drain our energy for doing the hard work of Transition- with new worries about the economy, climate change, the growing rifts in our culture (just to name a few) we can end up finding ourselves to drained to make progress on thew tasks we need to do to prepare.

 

I have found that making the time (and saving the energy)…

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Added by Twog on November 20, 2011 at 8:30pm — No Comments

The necessity of participating in the system

I knew when I decided to run for County Executive that I would give up most of my income making capacity to do so. I also knew from past experience running for election that it would take all of my focus and not allow me to seek consulting clients for my business. Well all that was true and so when I lost in the primary I had a wonderful opportunity to look at the last couple of years of being self employed critically and make a decision as to whether this was going to work going forward.…

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Added by Twog on November 13, 2011 at 10:04pm — No Comments

The Poetry of Life... a bit from me to you!



The multipettaled blooms of delicate daisies,

shower us with wonder and calmness.

Richness in powerfully, and subtly scented herbs…

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Added by Twog on November 3, 2011 at 10:49pm — 1 Comment

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