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Austen Hayes


Dose #10: How Old Do You Feel?
Happy Holidays Everyone! Thank you for your wonderful support throughout the year! I am more grateful than you know. ah...
Austen Hayes
Dec 23, 20184 min read
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Dose #9: Must We Be So Afraid?
A Holiday Note. In this year of 2018 we watched as the world trembled with sorrow and destruction. At the same time, we've been witness...
Austen Hayes
Dec 16, 20183 min read
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Dose # 8: One Singular Sensation
"Just one step. Just one mile. Just one dollar. Just one kiss. When we look at life through the lens of 'one', everything becomes much...
Austen Hayes
Dec 9, 20182 min read
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Dose #7: Until Now; Women's Strength In Stories Shared
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to...
Austen Hayes
Dec 2, 20182 min read
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Dose #6: Giving, Letting Go & Singing
"No one has ever become poor by giving." ~Anne Frank Someone I've known since we were 12, told me it's wrong for our country to give to...
Austen Hayes
Nov 25, 20182 min read
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Dose #5: The Train Ride
"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers." ~ Victor Hugo On the day before we left England,...
Austen Hayes
Nov 18, 20184 min read
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Dose #4: Strength; A Mighty Roar, A Faint Whisper
"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it." ~ Winston Churchill I'm not sure about strength. I'm not always sure when it comes...
Austen Hayes
Nov 11, 20183 min read
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Dose #3: Comparing; The Test of Personal Worth
"Opposites throw light upon each other." ~Schopenhauer We compare ourselves to those we believe have more - then feel inadequate. We...
Austen Hayes
Nov 4, 20182 min read
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Dose #2: The Joy of Rediscovery
From the beginning man asked - "What's over the hill?" - more resources, greater challenge, the unknown, seduced, enlivened by the new,...
Austen Hayes
Oct 28, 20182 min read
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Dose #1: Liking Yourself
Spend a few minutes making a list of things you like about yourself. A real, written list, not just thoughts in your head, but something...
Austen Hayes
Oct 20, 20181 min read
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Yes, You're still a Mother
"God's finger touched him, and he slept." ~ Tennyson Today is the anniversary of my son's death. Lately I've been thinking about other...
Austen Hayes
Aug 11, 20185 min read
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Accepting What Is
"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." ~William James Paying for my...
Austen Hayes
Jul 21, 20182 min read
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Taking Time
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." ~Lao Tzu We love going "to the country", leaving the confines and bustle of city...
Austen Hayes
May 4, 20184 min read
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Do No Harm
"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but...
Austen Hayes
Apr 15, 20183 min read
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This Extraordinary Day
Faced with death, people come alive, seeing everything as if for the first time...an expression they will no longer see, words they will...
Austen Hayes
Apr 7, 20182 min read
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Sense and Sensitivities
"Information is not knowledge." ~ Albert Einstein Freud and Erickson wrote of life stages - focus and purpose changing with experience...
Austen Hayes
Apr 2, 20183 min read
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Winter-Ending Walk
"When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their...
Austen Hayes
Mar 24, 20182 min read
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Your Time, Your Life; How Do You Spend It?
It seems the less time spent with t.v., social media, magazines, the more we have to give. Our quality of connecting improves...less...
Austen Hayes
Mar 17, 20182 min read
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Accepting the self as nature
"You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin,...
Austen Hayes
Mar 10, 20182 min read
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Meeting the house finch
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all." ~ Emily...
Austen Hayes
Mar 3, 20182 min read
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