by Nancy Thygesen | Dec 29, 2023 | Mental Health, Spiritual Lessons
Just for the heck of it, I watched the 1999 remake of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ with Patrick Steward (aka Jean-Luc Picard) taking on Ebenezer Scrooge. The miserable-est of the miserable. The ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, showed his...
by Nancy Thygesen | Dec 4, 2023 | Mental Health, Spiritual Lessons
How does the saying go? “Trying to stuff a 50 lb. sausage into a 10 lb. sack.” Not a pretty picture. Raking leaves, I was stuffing as much as I could into one big industrial strength bag – even if that meant laying on the bag to compress for more room. One might...
by Nancy Thygesen | Aug 2, 2023 | Mental Health, Spiritual Lessons
What I love about photography is that your photos are your unique lens on life and the world. Two people capture the same event differently. A photo also asks – who took this picture, where is so and so, and where was this pic taken? After saying all that,...
by Nancy Thygesen | Jul 26, 2023 | Healthy Movement, Mental Health, Spiritual Lessons
I was asking myself about discomfort after reading my 2021 blog about being comfortable in the uncomfortable. The big challenge then was standing on a paddle board. Suffice it to say that most of summer 2022 out on the water, I did not stand but sit –in the...
by Nancy Thygesen | Jul 7, 2021 | Aging Backwards, Healthy Movement, Learning, Mental Health
A recent survey on Air1 (a US worship music station) asked the question: “What makes you happy?” Guess what one of the top responses was? Exercise. And there’s good reason. We were created that way. A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the...
by Nancy Thygesen | Jun 13, 2021 | Mental Health
How many of us pay attention to signs – driving or otherwise? We drove out to BC early March from Alberta. A snowstorm closed the Coquihalla (ever watch that show “Highway to Hell?”) over the weekend. Rick had been monitoring highway reports and we...
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