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Like many mystery fans of my gender, I cut my teeth on Nancy Drew and graduated to Agatha Christie. But I confess that while I loved the fresh-faced bravery of our Nancy and kinda liked the fussy Hercule Poirot, I loathed the pokey, nosy, smug Miss Marple. She was like the nightmare granny: always up in everyone’s business. |
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I am sure Obama supporters around the country are delirious that their candidate has received Senator Edward’s endorsement. I for one as a baby boomer, feel cheated. |
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 A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, Eckhart Tolle. Plume, September 2006; 313 pages.
I was delighted when I was asked to review Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth. For one, I’m a big fan of his message (more on that in a bit) and I had read the book when it was first released, which I figured would give me a leg up in rereading it for the sake of a review.
But rereading A New Earth is when I learned the secret of Tolle’s writings and philosophy: what you take away will greatly depend on where your life is when you read it.
I first read A New Earth at a very challenging time in my life: my earnings were down, my husband’s business was struggling -- both of which were, granted, material -- and my brother was diagnosed with cancer. And while not a death-sentence diagnosis, one that he didn’t quite catch in the earliest stages when a cure would have been a slam dunk. My brother and I each read Tolle’s previous book The Power of Now between the surgery and the chemo; we read A New Earth together when I was down in Miami for the four weeks of his grueling chemo. (Or I should say, we read and listened: one of his former partners sent it to him as an audio book.) |
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As if natural disasters aren’t bad enough, politics compounds the tragedy.
For the people who live where a natural disaster hits, the event itself tests every fiber of their beings. What is transpiring in Myanmar, however, is almost too staggering to comprehend: the truculence of the junta that has had the former Burma in a strangle hold for almost 50 years is preventing, or in a best case scenario postponing, lifesaving aid the country desperately needs.
Why, asks any sane, normal person of almost any political persuasion, would a country hit by everything Mother Nature has at her disposal not take advantage of the kindness of strangers?
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Learning a new habit (that would be a good habit, not a bad habit) can make your brain work better. Wow. Simple statement with a world of implications.
Who hasn’t been advised to try something new? But how many times have you actually made the effort. Yep, we thought so. It’s sooo much easier just to do things the old, familiar way.
But wouldn’t you be more inclined to learn something new if by doing so your brain became better? To me that’s a, well, no-brainer. In “Can Your Become a Creature of New Habits,” Janet Rae-Dupree reports that “brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, …” What that means to me is that not only will I learn something new, my brain will be stronger over all.
This is especially potent material for boomers. As a generation we have never shied away from trying new things (okay, so back in the day those new things were often mind-altering substances); as our brains get older (even if we don’t), learning new things will strengthen our intellect and make our brains stronger – not to mention we pick up a new skill or two along the way.
Which brings me to another point: learning new skills will help us as we look to shift to our second – or even third – careers. That makes taking the time to develop new (and better) habits and learning new skills a win-win. Our brains benefit along with our careers.
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