Emilie Loring’s Novels: Where Adventure Meets Refreshment

In the search for renewed vitality, a feeling of refreshment, Emilie Loring’s novels light the way. “If, when they reach ‘the end’ they forget to go back for their problems and march blithely toward the day’s work pepped up and refreshed, refreshed—it’s a great word, isn’t it—I shall feel that I have achieved something.” Give … More Emilie Loring’s Novels: Where Adventure Meets Refreshment

Joy in Awareness, Gratitude in Appreciation

Forget the press of feasting and cramming too many people into too little space for the afternoon, and let Thanksgiving–gratitude–carry the day. Gratitude is an in-the-moment awareness that something we have, know, or experience has intrinsic value. “Focus on the good you have, not the lack of it, because whatever gets your attention will increase the energy of gratitude. … More Joy in Awareness, Gratitude in Appreciation