Soul Food
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What lifts you?
Photo by Alan Parker ~ click for larger image Main Entry: lift Part of Speech: noun 2 Definition: help Synonyms: aid, assist, assistance, boost, comfort, encouragement, hand, leg, leg up, pick-me-up, reassurance, relief, secours, succor, support Source: Roget’s New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)Copyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.… Continue reading
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Medicinal Poetry
In case you feel guilty about frittering your time away here at Watermark, let me reassure you — poetry is good for you. From Scientific American, via dumbfoundry: For this study [in Germany], healthy subjects practiced three activities: hexameter reading, controlled breathing at six breaths per minute and spontaneous breathing. They recited while walking, breathing… Continue reading
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Gratitude II
ENCOURAGEMENT This is what I drank my coffee from this morning. I won it at What The Hell Am I Doing Here, by being visitor #10,000. Once the caffeine hit, it occurred to me to check my own stats; sometime in the past few days Watermark passed 10,000 and is well on its way to… Continue reading
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Friendship
Some of you will have noticed a lack of substantive content here for the last week or so. I’ve had company, and now must recover from the subsequent (unregretted) fatigue. This visitor is a friend "from before" — before I was ill, the "I used to . . . " times: I used to be… Continue reading
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Project Blog
Project Blog is here because we care and because we want to make a difference. On July 24th, bloggers from all around the world will be updating their own blog every 30 minutes for 24 solid hours all in the name of each blogger’s favorite charity. Two of my regular reads, Pushing An Elephant Up… Continue reading
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