Seasons

The Wisdom of Circular Thinking

Donna Henes | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Straight, Seasons, Cycles, Celestial, Mother Nature, Circular Thinking, Nature, Mother Earth, Circle, Circles, Cycle, Healthy Living News

The circle of time, the celestial cycles, the round of the seasons, surrounds us and encompasses us. All there is, was, and will be exists within its ...

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The Best Accessory: A Husband or a Scarf?

Julie Gerstenblatt | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Marriage, Seasons, Fashion, Weather, Husband, Relationships, Humor, Scarves, Marriage Humor, Marriage Advice, Scarf, Comedy News

Keep your husband wrapped tightly around your finger and a scarf wrapped jauntily around your neck at all times.

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Spring Comes Super-Early This Year, And Astronomers Say Why

Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Astronomers, Video, Seasons, Equinox, Astronomy, Vernal Equinox, Earth, Spring, Springtime, March, Winter, Meteorology, Science News

By: Joe Rao Published: 03/19/2012 01:48 PM EDT on SPACE.com Across much of the United States, this has been an unusually mild winter, especially...

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Leap Year Lesson: What Is a Year, Anyway?

Donna Henes | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Stars, Seasons, Time, Leap Year, Ritual, Time Keeping, Calendar, Mathematics, Sun, Moon, Religious Calendars, Ceremonial Time, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News

Creating an accurate and practical calendar is an astonishingly complicated challenge, which has plagued our calendrical tendencies since people first attempted to create some logical and consistent order for themselves from a universe that can be so chaotic and confusing in its complexity.

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New Year: Here We Go Again!

Donna Henes | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Seasons, Ritual, Spiritual, Calendar, New-Years-2012, New Start, New Year, New Beginnings, Holiday Season, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News

A year, no matter how it is determined, is simply a complete cycle. The transition, the precise turning point, between the end of one cyclical period and the start of another designates a new year.

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Colors Of Autumn (PHOTOS)

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Slideadbigshot, Photos, Photography, Seasons, Snow, Autumn, Exposure, Autumn Leaves, Photojournalism, Green News

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Set Your Clocks for the Twilight of the Big Bang

Adam Frank | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Daylight Saving Time, Timekeeping, Seasons, Time, Big Bang Theory, Nature, Science, Clocks, Benjamin Franklin, Cosmology, Green News

This Sunday marks the yearly orgy of clock-adjusting known as daylight saving time. This is the best day of the year to remind everyone that time, as we know it, doesn't exist.

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Graceful Transitions: Steve Jobs and Autumn in Catskills

Misha Lyuve | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Catskill Mountains, Seasons, Apple, Foliage, Death & Dying, Autumn, Fall, New York State, Transition in Life, Death-and-Social-Media, Arts News

Every year in October I venture to Catskill mountains for a breath of the astounding aroma of the fall.

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Marvelous Maples May Migrate -- Thanks to Global Warming

Neil Wagner | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Fall Colors, Cartoons, Comic Strip, Seasons, Climate, Comics Strips, Climate Change, Fall-Leaf-Peeping, Cartoon, Global Warming, Fall Foliage, Green News

The maple is just one of the many trees making a shift northward, indicative of longer growing seasons and warmer temperatures.

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The New Years In Autumn

Donna Henes | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Harvest Festivals, Seasons, Celebration, Ceremony, Ritual, Calendar, Celebrations, Autumn Equinox, Autumn, Harvest, Fall, New Year, Year, Rosh Hashanah, Religion News

The fall, when the long hard labor of the growing and reaping seasons is finally finished and when the storehouses are as full as they will ever be, is an especially appropriate time to begin the year.

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S.O.S.H.I.T.: "Summer's Over, Soon, Hide Inside Time"

Corinne Mucha | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Seasonal Affective Disorder, Fall, Winter, Seasons, Cartoon, Comics, Summer, Comedy, Chicago News

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3 Tips to Socializing this Summer

Shasta Nelson, M.Div. | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Socializing, Friendship, Loneliness, Friendship Expert, Seasons, Friends, Need Friends, Summer, Women's Health, Tips, Friendship Advice, Female Friendships, Make Friends, Women Friendship, Women News

Summer brings up a lot of idealized pictures: family vacations, backyard barbeques with neighbors, street festivals with friends. In that gap between our hopes and our reality often comes the surprising feeling of loneliness.

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The Long-Lost Return of Spring

Maria Rodale | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Maria Rodale, Spring, Seasons, Spring Flowers, Spring Living, Healthy Living News

Finally, FINALLY, finally, spring is officially here. Is it just me, or has this been the longest, darkest, and most depressing winter ever? Well, goo...

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Seasonal Affective Disorder? Not In Sunny SoCal!

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Seasonal Affective Disorder, Southern California, How to Fight Winter Blues, Seasons, California, Mental Health, Southern California Weather, Winter Blues, Healthy Living News

Some say we SoCal folks don't like the seasons, but that isn't true. We like three out of four and we visit winter in other places when we feel like it.

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How The Celestially Auspicious Occasions Of The Past Are The Holidays Of Today

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Seasons, Ceremony, Tradition, Spirituality, Holiday, Time, Ritual, Time Ritual, Passing Time, Holiday Ritual, Healthy Living News

Though few people in our crowded cacophonous urban world live in focused alignment with the earth, the holidays we celebrate are the living legacy of the oldest seasonal observances.

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A Maple for all Seasons: Making Leaf Piles, Memories, and Magic

Julie Genovese | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Seasons, Leaf Piles, Kids, Maple, Soul, Nature, Climb, Autumn, Parenting, Peace, Gratitude, Memories, Healthy Living News

As my neighbors grumble about the leaves covering their lawn, my boys wait wide-eyed, mighty rakes in their hands. The time is here; our delicate Japanese maple has finally shed enough of her red robe for a ginormous leaf pile.

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Gardening for Strangers in Tokyo

Jared Braiterman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neighbor, Public Space, Seasons, Crowded, Nature, Environment, Community, City, Livable Streets, Gardening, Tokyo, Culture, Green News

Spending several weeks in Tokyo on a business trip in 2008, I was startled and enchanted to discover its human scale and its streets alive with people and plants.

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How Hot? Too Hot for Paragraphs!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Seasons, Lifestyle, Light Verse, Verse, Weather, Summer Heat, Record Temperatures, Temperature, Heat Spell, Hot and Humid, Northeast Heat, Hot Spell, Summer Advice, Coping With Weather, Heat, Living, Midwest Heat, Healthy Living News

The kind of hot-and-sticky that you read about in books, The kind that sends you searching for cool crannies and dry nooks, Some temperate location...

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"A Man for All Seasons"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leaves, Seasons, Mother Nature, Humor, Frankie Valli, Beer, Cars, Spring, Fall, Yard Work, Acorns, Trees, Oaks, Mortgage, Grass, Snow, Gutters, Yards, Comedy News

Now I am in the middle of raking leaves that fell last fall, which is called fall because you will fall into the leaves that fell in the fall and will not feel fine after you have fallen.

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Poems For The Start Of Winter

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Holidays, Christmas Carol, Christina Rossetti, Seasons, Winter Poems, Matsuo Basho, Christmas, Winter, Poetry. Poems, Ezra Pound, First Day of Winter, Healthy Living News

Monday marks the first day of winter and I've put together some poems for the occasion. I've overlooked the classics hoping for a few that might be new to you.

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One Year in 90 Seconds (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Video, Seasons, Green Living, Nature, Environment, Eirik Solheim, Green News

We've all heard the expression "time flies when you're having fun," but Eirik Solheim has taken this to a new level with his inventive video. Solheim ...

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Fight Off Back Aches With Extra Vitamin D

Medical News Today | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Pain, Seasons, Treat, Research, Solution, Winter, Diet, Help, Vitamin D, Back Pain, Vitamin Deficiencies, Back Ache Treatment, Back, Health, Nutrition, Pain Treatment Topics, Back Pain Treatment, Remedies, Remedy, Healthy Living News

It's no wonder that many people feel extra soreness and aches in their backs during winter months -- they're often not getting enough vitamin D. The b...

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"The Big Dig"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Paris, Snow Blower, Neighbor, Friends, Seasons, Airport, Blizzard, Strangers, Humor, Driveway, Snow, East Coast, Newspaper, Winter, New York, Family, The Balanced Life, Healthy Living News

As a man who has been perpetrating snow jobs all his life (55 years and counting) I can safely say that the recent blizzard dumped more of the white stuff on my driveway than anywhere else on the East Coast.

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Confusing Weather and Climate: The False Debate About Global Warming

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Winter, Seasons, Weather, Climate, Global Warming, Climate Change, Politics News

As soon as the temperature hits freezing, skeptics cry out that global warming must be a farce. Stop already with the nonsense that climate change can't be real because it is cold outside.

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Autumn Poems: Add YOUR Favorites!

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Poetic Life, Autumn Poem, Seasons, Poems for Autumn, Fall, Changing Seasons, Season Change, Poem, Poetry, John Lundberg, Season, Healthy Living News

The Pumpkin Spice Latte is back on the Starbucks menu, a sure sign that autumn is almost here (it actually begins on Tuesday). To help celebrate the season, I've collected excerpts from some of my favorite autumn poems below. Scroll down to add YOUR favorites!

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