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Can Limitations Be Useful?

by Robin on October 6, 2009

Saturn, the planet of manifestation through constriction, in astrology. Image from NASA.
Sometimes there are things we just can’t do. Not right now, anyway.
I’m all for unlimited thinking and believing we can do anything, but I also think we can choose to see the limitations we are stuck with right now as helping us.

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Counterclockwise, by Ellen Langer

by Robin on July 6, 2009

Could thinking we are younger make us younger physically and mentally?
This question is discussed in Counterclockwise, a new book by Ellen J. Langer. It’s available now on Amazon, here: Counterclockwise
Dr. Ellen Langer is a professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. In 1979, she and 4 graduate students undertook a study where a [...]

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Why We Sabotage Ourselves

by Robin on November 26, 2008

The baby above is a few minutes old and had a gentle birth.

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A Thousand Years

by Robin on May 11, 2008

photo from the Maldives by notsogoodphotography

I wrote this piece (I wouldn’t go as far as calling it a poem) a few years ago. Now that blogs have been invented it gets an outing!

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Plenty For Everyone

by Robin on April 24, 2008

This post is inspired by a comment left on an earlier one. Thanks SO much to everyone who has left a comment—it makes a huge difference to me.
The thought expressed was… what about having sex and making babies and population growth and there being enough room on the planet for everyone, if no-one dies? …to [...]

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