Archive for Personal Growth
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Volunteerism Enriches Life
By Nancy Stockwell Marketing Consultant Ridgecrest Village “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.” – Mother Teresa “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” – Mohammed Ali “We make a livi...
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A New Normal
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Most are probably familiar with the common saying that goes something like this: “The only two certain things in life are death and taxes.” Indeed, among both generations and centuries, it seems that we can scarcely do more about on...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Birds! That’s right, birds. I have approached the subject a few times. My challenge is from the journalism side of writing, which asks for the closest thing to facts we can obtain. Birds take, essentially, flights of fancy. Man can fly with the help of powerful engines to prope...
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The Legend of the Cracked Water Pot
By Becky Lee Hinton Director of Marketing The Fountains Senior Living Community A water bearer in India had two large pots, one hung in each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of w...
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Quilts: May all your ups and downs in life be with needle and thread.
By Nancy Stockwell Marketing Consultant Ridgecrest Village In a fast-paced world filled with ready-made conveniences, sometimes we overlook the hand-crafted beauty and simple functionality of something as common as quilts. A beautifully crafted quilt is truly a work of art. Certainly it could ...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Not long ago, as ideas of summer sprouted, reading projects for adults cropped up in the media. Some newspapers and magazines feature new novels and such put forward by some “expert.” My idea of reading for the summer is a newspaper at a leisurely pace, or like me, a subscrib...
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“Love is patient, love is kind”
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home These familiar words from I Corinthians often become the scriptural centerpiece of weddings. And while these words make a pleasing backdrop to the joyous ceremony of marriage, most married couples would agree that it’s far harder to live ...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston I have not searched the columns I’ve composed for the 50+ crowd, but I don’t think I have ever stated how I got my start in poetry. I am a writer and have been since I was 13, 60 years in my past. Many of you know about forgetting stuff that far back. Fast forward. I was...
