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Sheltering Wright: My essay in NEWSWEEK
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” ~Frank Lloyd Wright It’s hard to believe a full year has passed since the global pandemic reshaped the way we live every day. Last spring, when the monotony of living in lockdown set in, Doug and I decided to spend more time at our Wright home (the Carl Schultz house) in St. Joseph. Prior to the pandemic, we’d put a great deal of effort into renovating and upgrading the home and its surrounding property — but rarely took time to actually live in the place and enjoy the results of our labor. The pandemic motivated us to change that last year, and it inspired an essay…
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Optimism for everyone
“So much has been postponed, closed or canceled over the past year. But not everything. Love has not been postponed, closed or canceled. Hope has not been postponed, closed or canceled. Self-care has not been postponed, closed or canceled. Right now is an opportunity to invest in the little things that matter most.” ~Angel Chernoff In Delray Beach / Cindy La Ferle Miss any posts this week? Look for additional content and social media sharing options on the home page.
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Being uplifted
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you. Spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” ~Amy Poehler Cindy La Ferle Miss any posts this week? Look for additional content and social media sharing options on the home page.
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Beautifying
“I am going to make everything around me beautiful. That will be my life.” ~Elsie de Wolfe Cindy La Ferle Miss any posts this week? For more content and social media sharing options, please visit the home page.
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One year later: Notes from my quarantine journal
Cindy La Ferle “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ~Søren Kierkegaard March 11, 2021… Today marks the one-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 shutdown in our embattled-but-not-beaten United States of America. To date, nearly 530,000 American lives have been lost to the virus. One year ago today, my husband, Doug, was waiting for surgery to reconnect the fingers he’d nearly lost on his left hand, thanks to a brutal accident with a table saw. It was an incredibly scary time to experience a medical emergency of any kind, because nobody — not even healthcare workers — fully understood the threat of COVID-19 or…
