{"id":3555,"date":"2015-09-07T16:54:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T21:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womens-spirituality.com\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2015-09-03T16:54:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T21:54:34","slug":"living-long-living-passionately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womens-spirituality.com\/?p=3555","title":{"rendered":"Living Long, Living Passionately."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My newest book: <em><strong>LIVING LONG, LIVING PASSIONATELY, 75 (and counting)WAYS TO BRING PEACE AND PURPOSE TO YOUR LIFE<\/strong><\/em>, was released Sept 1 by Conari and is available on Amazon and in bookstores. \u00a0I am thrilled with it. \u00a0I guess I&#8217;d have to say that I have been thrilled about every book I have published, but this one does feel a bit different. \u00a0Perhaps that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s not specifically for folks in recovery, although I&#8217;d have to say that every book I have written has quite miraculously appealed to a wider audience than just recovering folks. \u00a0This fact has convinced me that all people are searching to feel better. \u00a0I&#8217;d also say that most of us are looking for ways to fill the empty hole inside.<\/p>\n<p>I think as we age, particularly if we aren&#8217;t involved in meaningful activities, we begin to doubt our importance to others and that hole inside, (if there is one), begins eating at us. \u00a0Way too often we read about the elderly man or woman who has committed suicide, and we assume, sometimes correctly and sometimes not, that they no longer felt like they mattered. \u00a0To any one. I am here to insist that <strong>our presence does matter<\/strong>, and it matters to everyone whose path we cross today. \u00a0And every day.<\/p>\n<p>I just completed a radio interview about <em><strong>Living Long, Living Passionately<\/strong> <\/em>and the interviewer asked me what I hoped to accomplish with the book. \u00a0My answer is simple. And short. \u00a0I want readers to feel empowered to try new activities or resurrect old activities that they gave up when their lives were too busy with careers or raising children. \u00a0Or both. \u00a0I want every reader to be able to look themselves in the bathroom mirror every morning and say, &#8220;I am not done living. In fact, a new chapter has just begun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Being excited about this day,<strong> this very day<\/strong>, is a decision. And it&#8217;s one we can make each morning the moment our eyes open. In fact, just writing those words now excites me because I feel the empowerment I am trying to initiate in others. \u00a0Just as Richard Bach said on the back cover of his book, <em><strong>Illusions<\/strong><\/em>, a book I read in the mid 1970&#8217;s, <strong>&#8220;If you are reading these words now, it means you have not yet fulfilled your purpose in life.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0 Those words then propelled me forward and I want to propel others forward with<em><strong> Living Long, Living Passionately<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I want to believe that I have made a difference in the life of at least one person in my current age category. \u00a0I want to inspire, in others, the excitement I feel upon waking every morning. \u00a0Life isn&#8217;t over, regardless of our age. \u00a0It&#8217;s a new chapter every doggone day and &#8220;the length of the novel&#8221; is up to us. \u00a0Happy<em><strong> &#8220;writing.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My newest book: LIVING LONG, LIVING PASSIONATELY, 75 (and counting)WAYS TO BRING PEACE AND PURPOSE TO YOUR LIFE, was released Sept 1 by Conari and is available on Amazon and in bookstores. \u00a0I am thrilled with it. \u00a0I guess I&#8217;d have to say that I have been thrilled about every book I have published, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-in-the-mirror-you-and-yourself","category-what-i-believe-you-and-your-higher-power"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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