Songwriting With Soldiers

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

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Songwriting With Soldiers

Music is what feelings sound like.

- Georgia Cates -

Songwriting With Soldiers

A chance meeting with a soldier after performing in a hospital in Germany inspired songwriter Darden Smith to work with members of the military to turn their stories into music. Smith now runs Songwriting With:Soldiers, a non-profit organization which pairs veterans and troops with professional songwriters in a peaceful environment. The service members share their stories and the songwriters mold them into lyrics and set them to melody. "We all have a story," Smith says. "When we listen, and listen well enough to take the solders' words and turn them into art, and sing it back to them, something happens. What it is, I don't know. I'm a songwriter, not a therapist. But something happens, and it's powerful." { read more }

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Find a song that expresses how you feel about a loved one and share that song with them.


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The Power of Hobbies

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

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The Power of Hobbies

Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

- Dale Carnegie -

The Power of Hobbies

When thinking of ways to create a better and healthier lifestyle, oftentimes people tend to think in terms of cutting back on certain choices, be it eating desserts, drinking alcohol, or perhaps just sitting on the couch watching TV. But one area in life that has been almost cut out entirely is something that actually should have never been cast aside --having a hobby. Not only is it a fulfilling, sometimes creative outlet, but it is also beneficial to your overall health. { read more }

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Slowly make a point to began an activity that you've always found interesting - be it gardening, cooking, reading, or participating in some type of sport.


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How We Grieve: Learning To Live With Loss

Monday, August 18, 2014

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How We Grieve: Learning To Live With Loss

If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering.

- Geoffrey Gorer -

How We Grieve: Learning To Live With Loss

John Updike wrote in his memoir, "Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?" And yet even if we were to somehow make peace with our own mortality, a primal fear rips through whenever we think about losing those we love most dearly -- a fear that metastasizes into all-consuming grief when loss does come. In The Long Goodbye, her magnificent memoir of grieving her mother's death, Meghan O'Rourke crafts a masterwork of remembrance and reflection woven of extraordinary emotional intelligence. Read more... { read more }

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This week remember the livingness of those you love and loved, rather than fear or grieve their loss.


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The Forest Man of Majuli Island

Sunday, August 17, 2014

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The Forest Man of Majuli Island

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

The Forest Man of Majuli Island

It has been said that the single most powerful thing one can do to combat climate change and promote peace is to plant a tree. Jadev Payeng has been doing just that since the 1970's on the once-barren sandbar on the banks of the Brahmaputra River in Assam, India. Over 40 years later, the forest he's planted is now larger than New York City's Central Park and is home to several thousand varieties of trees as well as an amazing diversity of wildlife, including rhino, elephants, and even tigers. { read more }

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Plant a tree to honor Jadav's spirit this week. This website offers pointers on proper planting. { more }


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