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Dressing Up Your Ceremony
If you are the romantic type, you will want to have poems, quotations, song lyrics, and the like in your ceremony. Of course, your own writing would be fabulous! But,…
Question Reality
Listen to the whisper of the Universe and echo what you hear with a gentle tongue. The present beckons us to bring a childlike curiosity into our everyday life, thus…
Real Estate: What’s Happening
REAs I was looking for some possible topics to discuss this month, I came across a collection of ideas posted on the website for the California Association of REALTORS® (CAR).…
Vicious Cycle: Here Comes the Neighborhood
From the Harvard Review, July 26, 2012: The addition of one same-sex couple for every 1,000 households is associated with a 1% increase in home prices in US neighborhoods that…
Five Design Trends for Today and Tomorrow
An important part of my job as a designer is to spot emerging trends in the marketplace and to help my clients decide if these trends are right for their…
Don’t Take It Personally
Henry maneuvers his shopping cart into the shortest checkout line in the market. He’s tired and hungry after a long day’s work, and in a hurry to get home and…
No Such Thing As a Perfect Mate
I don’t ask couples why they’re getting married. Should it matter to me as their officiant? Some tell me that they want to share the love they’re feeling with family…
Eliminate Labels, Erase Expectations
Revolutionary philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti warned us that the moment you teach a child that a bird is called “bird,” the child would never see the bird again. This concept is…
Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition of Gertrude Stein’s Avant-Garde Text
By Renate Stendhal Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), the self-declared “literary Einstein of the century,” is one of the most famous and least read of America’s authors. During her lifetime, her writing…
Tyranny of the Comparing Mind
Eric tries on a new shirt and looks at himself in the mirror. “I don’t like the way I look in this,” he tells his partner, Jason. “You look fine,”…
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