“Get involved. You’ll find pleasure and sometimes disappointment, but there is a sense of achievement if you participate in a successful undertaking, whether it is organizational or professional.” — Murray Shusterman, 100
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Espirational Happenings for May
People don’t seem to be finding their way to Espirational Happenings — the monthly “newsletter in a blog post.” So let’s try it one more time. You need to click one of the links to see the whole thing.
Reblogged from https://espirational.net/2018/05/01/espirational-happenings-for-may/
Welcome to the first official issue of Espirational Happenings! Each month we post news about what’s going on in the Espirational Family. We also include links to articles or websites we feel are the best in covering our monthly theme or Espirational living in general. This is new and is our monthly “newsletter,” only we do not send it out to you. It will appear here each month. If you want to receive it in your e-mail box, please follow espirational.net (see lower right-hand corner of any of our pages for our follow button).
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So What’s Happening?
Espirational.com — We are celebrating Older Americans Month at Espirational.com . Our daily quotes this month … CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
Look Inside Your Soul
“Look inside your soul and find your tools. We all have tools and have to live with the help of them. I have two tools—my words and my images.” —Ruth Gruber, 101
Think Positively
“Think positively, enjoy your children, enjoy your life.”
— Anne Lamont, 100
Did We Do Something Wrong?
We had an extremely disappointing debut of Espirational Happenings on May 1st. It appears that no one clicked on the link and we need your help figuring out what went wrong.
Please read the following carefully, then we need you to take action. Please click on the links in this article. Go over to All Things Espirational and look around. Then come back here and let us know by leaving a comment.
- Are the links working?
- What do you think of Espirational Happenings?
- Did you have any trouble navigating the gallery?
- What type of inspiration for daily living do you need?
- Do you have any ideas to help get people involved in the Espirational Community?
- Do we need to make this a secured membership site?
Now please read and follow the links.
Bob and I spent the winter and early spring months working very hard to expand and tie together the Espirational web presence.
So what does that mean? Well it means we now have:
Espirational.com —A 10 minute Vacation for the Soul where you are now.
Espirational.org — Espirational Faith, where Bob hangs out.
NEW! Espirational.net — All things Espirational, which ties everything together and serves as the home to:
- NEW! Espirational Happenings — our monthly online newsletter in a blog post. You will find links to espirational.com and .net as well as links to our favorite current blog posts and websites. We are also building an events calendar, but that takes time and you can help. We welcome your suggestions for articles for the Digest as well as information on free online events.
- NEW! The Espirational Art Gallery — now you can see and buy my art. Yes, you can now own an original work by Rogene Robbins!
Future Plans Include:
- The Espirational Tool Kit which started out at Espirational.com will move to All Things Espirational in a new and improved version.
- An Espirational Discussion Forum is in the planning stages. We hope this will help facilitate communication with and among our readers.
We have some exciting events planned for the grand opening of All Things Espirational and the Espirational Gallery during the month of June. But we need more people actively participating to be able to go forward with those plans.
I’ll Never Retire
“I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.” — Bel Kaufman, 101
Older Americans Month and Espirational Happenings
“Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. “
— Maggie Kuhn —American activist known for founding the Gray Panthers movement after forced retirement at 65,
One of the most forgotten groups in our society is people “of a certain age”, “the elderly”, “senior citizens.” Living in a retirement resort as well as reaching my 60th birthday have taught me a few lessons about aging in America. While we may be expected to retire, make room for the next generation or spend our “golden years” traveling the world, we still have much to contribute to the world.
This month we will have quotes from people over sixty as well as posts on aging and maybe a few videos showing what the “older folks” are up too. This should be fun! Please join us!
We have been making some additions to the Espirational online family of websites over the winter. Now we are ready to unveil the first edition of Espirational Happenings, a monthly update of all things Espirational on the web. You may read it online at https://espirational.net/espirational-happenings/ or subscribe to receive it in your e-mail.
Please let us know what you think. We always welcome suggestions and ideas.
Match your nature with Nature
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
– -Joseph Campbell- –
Being Heard
“Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.”
– David Augsburger –
Difficult Roads
Copyright 2015 by R.A. Robbins
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.
– Unknown –
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