Archive for Personal Growth
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Calendar of Events – February 2022
If you have an upcoming event that you would like published, please mail info to: 50+Lifestyles, P. O. Box 2125, Davenport, IA, 52809 Attn: Eloise or email: publisher@50pluslife.com Attn: Eloise. Please submit by the 10th of the month prior to the month you want activity listed. Support Groups...
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A Pause for Poetry
By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles. Nude on Snow If you see a naked person running Through the snow, slipping on ice, The winter’s running too long. Cabin Fever has set into your dreary soul. Your mind has gone around an ice Sculp...
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones Mana from Heaven and Cupcakes from the Room Mothers Quite honestly, your humble observer of life and erstwhile cupcake connoisseur, QC Jones has a hard time keeping up with the twists and turns in the world of polite, and politically correct behavior. First of all, I am not completel...
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A Powerful Connection
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “You never know what could be on the other side!” Once or twice a week Gary and I find ourselves crossing a bridge over a large expanse of water in Florida. Last week we drove to Sanibel Island; the Sanibel Causeway spans San Carlos Bay, connecting Sanibel Isla...
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A Pause for Poetry
By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles. Gettysburg The air is hot in this rain of ordnance, Metallic taste acrid in our mouths. Ferrous screams reflex our nerves in Our serried ranks, amid fumes of Gun powder. We blanch, we forge On int...
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My Bucket List
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” .........Abraham Lincoln I am facing 2022 with more trepidation than in past years. I imagine it is because we yanked up our roots and have yet to plant new ones. Bu...
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Calendar of Events – December 2021
Support Groups and Informational Seminars Open AA Meeting - Illowa Intergroup - 24 hour (309) 764-1016 or visit www.aaquadcities.org Quad Cities Alzheimer’s Association - Virtual support groups and programs are being offered. For assistance call (563) 293-8058 or the 24/7 helpline at (800) 272...
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A Pause for Poetry
By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles. Squirrel 401(k) Iowa afternoon I sit Idling in the park, Watching sunbeams gild And tint oak and ash bark, See squirrels skylark, Frisk over lawn and trees, Joust with buzzing bees. One buries a...
