Friendships start during the best and sometimes the worst of times. Mary first met Catherine during one of Catherine’s worst of times. Catherine had just experienced a life-altering stroke. Her sister Priscilla lived in an assisted living complex in Hastings and wanted to visit Catherine in the hospital in Rochester, but she could not [...]
Amid millions of constantly moving “neighbors”, what nearly motionless object is invaluable because of its unchanging location? This same object is 2,500 times brighter than the sun; try to imagine the intensity of the light! Even though it is 1.9 quadrillion miles from Earth, because of its nearly constant location over the North Pole, [...]
As the artists among us are aware, if one is setting out to paint a masterpiece, the selection of a superior canvas for the painting is vital. The selection of a high-quality canvas, which has been properly primed, is indispensable to ensuring the realism, quality, and longevity of the masterpiece. In recent years, the [...]
To live our best lives, each of us needs to cultivate hobbies and activities that are therapeutic for us. For many, spring is the time of year when we enjoy the great outdoors and start the process of transforming ground which was frozen tundra into a garden that fulfills our winter-long dreams.Raised garden beds which [...]
Author Steven Covey commented: “Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. One plus one equals three or more. Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new, [...]
James Harrison is an Australian known as “The Man with the Golden Arm”. Over a period of sixty years, Mr. Harrison donated blood 1,173 times; His blood contains a rare, powerful antibody that helps fight a blood disease which can be fatal for babies. One donation at a time, one drop of blood at a [...]
