As winter flexes its muscles, we can expect inclement weather that requires us to bundle up and brace ourselves for the inevitable storms. My husband, Laurie, feels the weather changes acutely when he is out cycling, and has come up with an intricate method of deciding what specific riding gear best matches the temperatures and wind chill factor.

 While at Mountain Equipment Co-op on the quest to find a heavier cycling jacket we encountered a very helpful clerk. Exchanging small talk re: w...

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The new year has never been, for me, something that started in January. September is the month - the smell of fresh pencils and unmarred school supplies harkens in the promise of new beginnings. The crispness that attaches itself to the lingering gold of late summer reminds me that change is afoot! Changes of season, changes of clothes, and changes of scheduling. . . these changes bring new routines, challenges and resolutions that I never connect with January first. This particular fall seas...

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"Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries."

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
   Aurora Leigh

Each day provides moments for richness, laughter, peace, delight, joy, inspiration, purpose, passion! But, how many times do we end our days or live our days with a sense of "tomorrow". Tomorrow I'll do, tomorrow I'll spend, tomorrow I'll play or laugh or invest in relationship.

It seems to me that we...
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I am fascinated with transformed spaces. In the midst of a renovation to accommodate office and meeting space for Dynamic Life, I am nostril-filled with drywall dust and am surrounded in chaos. We don’t have a truly functional space as of yet, but we have the dream of one – a vision … and we are close. Each day we tackle what is next, and each day we see the transformation. Sometimes it is a rapid progression and other times it is achingly slow. The poly-filled walls are not flawless an...

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As I tied my running shoes I noticed the black socks I was wearing. My thought was, "Someone somewhere would be appalled at this fashion choice!"

Then I went for a run and had a good chuckle thinking about my keen fashion sense. And while I ran I thought of how many "someone somewhere" thoughts influence not living life with greater abandon. 

I don't want to live life under the shadow of "someone somewhere" and today that means launching this website even if it isn't complete.

Here's to Dynamic...
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