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Celebrating Acorns to Oaks Networking Efforts Over the Decades and in October 2020 & Bee-yond!

on Sun, 10/04/2020 - 21:04
To the Editor (of The Lakeville Journal of CT but all others too!)
Especially in New England, it is easy to consider October as a month of harvest, beauty and transition. In the Jewish faith and others, a time of reflection and renewal is marked as well.
 
 A few decades ago I wrote to newspapers and started sharing the idea through flyers and notes of "Acorns to Oaks Networking" to highlight the gift of each person and nature in a forest of friends, growing from acorns to trusty oaks.
 
All people are counting in critical ways, whether for the census to assure services and funds (with a

Derek Rydall Offering Us Guides to Search for the Gold In Our Lives

on Sun, 10/04/2020 - 20:05

Somewhere online I found Derek Rydall offering a book, talk and then an online program..and he's live on FB now in the Thought Leader Academy with about 50 people in the group. He's encouraging us to find the wisdom, strength and ways we have lived well and particularly through hard times not only surviving but thriving...

If we have painful times come up and feelings, he encourages us to allow what was helpful to make it through or even what wasn't the best response to help us understand ourselves and others.

Remarkable Video About The State of The Earth and Her Inhabitants (Human, Animal and Nature at Large)

on Sun, 10/04/2020 - 18:31

https://twitter.com/parents4future/status/1309776102886379520?s=20 is an important video for everyone to learn about in terms of the extreme path of extinction not only of bugs, birds, fish and animals but the subsequent impact on animals and fish 'higher up on the food chain.'

First world countries with smaller populations are consuming more resources and causing a demand for the pollution and loss of resources impacting developing countries. Climate change is happening as well with extremes in temperature, weather and more. Climate change will be the greatest impact on species.

Notes from Kaelan Palmer Paton's 3rd grade notebook, 2004

on Sat, 10/03/2020 - 15:50

https://medium.com/@Livfully/kaelan-palmer-paton-1993-2009-notes-and-sto...

While I am finding it a bit stressful to figure out how to back up this Livfully.org blog so I don't lose all of this work due to an upgrade in software that Bluehost.com informed me will happen in two weeks, I found this notebook of our late son's writing that I had tucked away.

Hungry for Inspiration? A family from Hungary came to the US back in the day...

on Fri, 10/02/2020 - 14:49

During a Russian assault on Hungary in the late 1950s, the family of Dr. Catherine Takacs Witkop, fled just in the nick of time.

Fast forward to the late 1960s, her parents settled in Torrington CT where Catherine was reared. She was a star of the Nutmeg Ballet Company and I remember being wowed by here back then along with many other amazingly talented dancers who I got to spend one summer with (getting my one triple pirouette down but not on pointe like she and others could do in amazing performances as well!) She went off to Yale then got her medical degree from Columbia University.

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