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Two kinds of baby boomers?

Dianne Purdie — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:57:26 PST

Sadly I’ve neglected this blog for the past 6 months but my life hasn’t been idle! My husband, David and I have been working almost every hour God gives us trying to establish alternate sources of income so we won’t be retired and broke at age 65. We are currently 57 so that is 8 [...]

Tuesdays with Morrie, Wednesdays with Oscar

Dianne Purdie — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 03:14:57 PDT

My daughter and her friend started a book club on Facebook that I joined and the past 2 weeks we discussed the book Tuesdays with Morrie subtitled an old man, a young man and life’s greatest lesson. The book is a true story about Morrie a very special college professor who touched Mitch’s life in [...]

Is de-cluttering a path to happiness?

Dianne Purdie — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:33:51 PDT

I am part of a wealth and wisdom group of spiritual entrepreneurs that is currently discussing ‘stuff and clutter’ and why we don’t actually need it anymore in our lives. I too am trying to clear my clutter although not as rapidly and bare bones as some of them. I shared my thoughts with the [...]

Time and its relationship to health, wealth and love

Dianne Purdie — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:45:48 PDT

Time is a concept that I’ve been a bit focused on since my mother was in the hospital in April. I guess I’ve been a little bit tuned in to the mortality of all of us. Although I do know that we are timeless spirits temporarily inhabiting a human body it is still a bit [...]

Enjoying the summer

Dianne Purdie — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:37:08 PDT

Now that I live in England rather than Florida I’ve come to appreciate the warmth that I certainly took for granted when it was there year round. We don’t get a very long summer in England but we do get many months where it is still light outside when I go to bed! I have [...]

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Dianne Purdie — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:37:39 PDT

Happy 4th of July to those of you in the United States, Americans living abroad and anybody who celebrates what the United States was founded on. I am an American living in England and this is one of those days, like Thanksgiving, that makes me miss my home country. (A lot.) My soul mate is [...]

Heart vs head, intuition vs logic, do vs think about it

Dianne Purdie — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:38:08 PDT

I made the choice almost 10 years ago to follow my heart and move 4000 miles away from my family and friends to start a new life in England where I had made a heart connection. I have never once regretting the decision to be with David who is indeed my soul mate. There are [...]

The cycle of life

Dianne Purdie — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:45:16 PDT

My thoughts this weekend were drawn to the cycle of life as I read the tweet of one of the people I follow on Twitter, Stephen Parker ‘parkstepp’. He includes photos in his tweets and he showed this very soulful photo of what he called ‘one coming in and one going out’. This link is [...]

The art of allowing

Dianne Purdie — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:47:06 PDT

I’d like to share my thoughts on an article on Oprah.com by Mike Robbins and then post the entire article here so anybody, including myself, can read it anytime. It is about the art of allowing. In 1989 (wow that is a long time ago) after my first divorce, I attended a week long personal [...]

The peace of a baby

Dianne Purdie — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:51:21 PDT

I babysat for my three month old grandson yesterday on my day off while his mother, my stepdaughter, went to work to talk about when she will return from maternity leave. It is her desire to return only 3 days a week. I’m so happy for her that she has made that decision as this [...]