by Carole Duff | Dec 29, 2014 | Family, Nature |
“Grunt it up, you old lady!” “I’ll show you, you old man!” Welcome to the Vanaprastha Weightlifting Club, membership two hearty, humorous souls. (Thank you to our son Alex for giving us these wonderful t-shirts!) Keith and I are gut-centered types. In terms of the...
by Carole Duff | Aug 25, 2011 | Family, Nature, Writing and Reading |
How do people respond to crises? What brings out the best and the worst in people? Who stays calm? Who barks commands? Who screams and panics? Recently, a friend of mine told me a story about a workshop where attendees were grouped by Enneagram and given this...
by Carole Duff | Aug 4, 2011 | Family |
When first arriving at Vanaprastha, we routinely take inventory: trees still standing guard, new vegetation growing? What’s in the refrigerator, what did we bring, and what do we need? I’m a relatively good day-to-day maintenance person, but can honestly...