Life in Balance Blog

I’ll turn 70 in a couple of months, and I’ve said for a long time now that I want to live well into my 90’s; “Rockin’ on my front porch snappin’ pole beans.”  This is an image of my grandma in Tennessee I’ve held onto since my childhood. That’s my vision I have for myself too - keeping it simple and keeping on with things. So that’s the backstory to an aha moment I had the other day. On one of my sporadic morning walks, I allowed myself to contemplate this vision in a very de

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