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Starting Vegetable Garden Seeds & Plants Indoors

Starting Plants IndoorsSeeds can be germinated and seedlings started in a box, pan or flowerpot of soil in a window. In addition to having at least 6 hours of direct sunlight each day, the room must be kept reasonably warm at all times.Washed fine sa...

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Starting Your Own Fruit Trees

Note: This article first appeared in Grandiflora Magazine.Starting Your Own Fruit Trees Thomas OgrenI flat out love growing fruit trees and have been crazy about them all my life. Or at least, as much of my life as I can remember. Actually, the very...

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Geomantic Rules in the Living Room

Chinese people attach importance to the science of Geomancy - study of the influence of landscape (hills, river, layout of land or house) on people and their fortunes. Most people ask geomancers to choose good and propitious sites for houses or ances...

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Empowerment By Design

Of the many questions you ask yourself every day, one question is by far more important than all of the rest put together. It is a powerful question that will bring clarity, motivation and purpose to your whole existence. The question is simply this:...

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Recharge Your Battery

It was 4:15PM on a Thursday when I arrived at the hair salon to get my haircut. My hair appointment was at 5PM but I arrived there quite early. As I set down in the comfortable leather chair in the little “waiting corner,” I looked down to my le...

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Big Wave Mindfulness Surfing For A Connection

Surfing is mindfulness in action. Riding the biggest waves is an all-out, fully-present-or-die-trying proposition. Thanks to a persistent case of aquaphobia, I've never tried surfing. However, I've done my share of snowboarding, and I am tr...

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LIVIN' ON SOMEDAY I'LL

LIVIN' ON SOMEDAY I'LLby Terry L. SumerlinOne of the nice things about our 47-year-old barbershop is that we get to see customers go through the various stages of life. In some cases, we even give first haircuts to those whose grandfathers ...

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What Were You Expecting

Think back for a moment on the major and minor disappointments in your life. The reason they’re disappointments is because they didn’t live up to your expectations. You had something in mind that didn’t happen, or you wanted something you didn...

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Another Life ... I wish I were someone else.

In 1978, Erma Bombeck wrote a book entitled "The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank." It was a most humorous read, at the time. Of course, this title falls in line with the idea that "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fen...

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What is NLP

As a certified NLP trainer, I am often asked ;What is NLP?'The term NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming and was coined in the early seventies by John Grinder and Richard Bandler. They began their work by studying: Fritz Perls, psychothe...

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