Seize the Moment!
This billboard in downtown Seattle provides us with a universal message: When all is said and done, we regret more what we didn't do, than what we did do...So when people tell me, "Wow, I've always wanted to go to Alaska," I tell them, just as I'm telling you, "Great, come. Your life will change." It's hard to put into words. You just have to experience Alaska for yourself.
We can also learn from writer, teacher and scholar Eknath Easwaran who said,
100 years ago, iced tea--not beer--was the beverage of choice
When iced tea was introduced at the 1904 St. Louis World s Fair, Americans fell in love with it. In fact, iced tea became a status symbol. A perfectly brewed pitcher of tea was the mark of a successful hostess. Women s magazines provided tips on how to brew tea correctly, and offered recipes for Tea Punch a sweet beverage for summer tennis and golf gatherings.Learn how iced tea drinkers battled it out with beer drinkers, and won! Listen to this article in the form of a fun, 2-minute audio article, subscribe to my podcast feed (so you can open the attachment below) or simply listen to the mp3 file now by clicking here.
What Can a 1935 Burpee Seed Catalog Tell Us?
Many of the best gardens are planned around the kitchen table on cold winter nights as people gather to page through the seed catalogs arriving now in stacks as deep as snowdrifts.More than 24 million American households will spend an estimated $128 each on mail order seeds, plants, bulbs, garden tools and garden supplies in 2006, the Mailorder Gardening Association says. Yet the catalogs we see today, online and printed, are very different from yesteryear.
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