Hits The Spot Yoga

01/14/2025

Garden design author Gordon Hayward has been writing a series of profile pieces for the Brattleboro Reformer. He thinks knowing more about our neighbors is one way to address the global challenges we all face.

01/13/2025

02/04/2024

A hummingbird in a bird bath, Beverly Hills, CA.

02/04/2024

Remembering singer, songwriter Laura Nyro who was born Laura Nigro on this date October 18, 1947 in The Bronx, NY.

She achieved critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums "Eli and the Thirteenth Confession" (1968) and "New York Tendaberry" (1969), and had commercial success with artists such as Barbra Streisand and the 5th Dimension recording her songs.

Between 1968 and 1970, a number of artists had hits with her songs: The 5th Dimension with "Blowing Away", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "Sweet Blindness", and "Save the Country"; Blood, Sweat & Tears and Peter, Paul and Mary with "And When I Die"; Three Dog Night and Maynard Ferguson with "Eli's Comin'"; and Barbra Streisand with "Stoney End", "Time and Love", and "Hands off the Man (Flim Flam Man)". Nyro's best-selling single was her recording of Carole King's and Gerry Goffin's "Up on the Roof".

She was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010, and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.

Nyro died April 8, 1997 at the age of 49.

02/04/2024

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success— none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Imagine that being in this love is like relaxing endlessly into a warm bath that surrounds and supports your every movement, so that every thought and feeling is permeated by it. You feel as though you are dissolving into love.

This love is actually part of you; it is always flowing through you. It’s like the subatomic texture of the universe, the dark matter that connects everything. When you tune in to that flow, you will feel it in your own heart—not your physical heart or your emotional heart, but your spiritual heart, the place you point to in your chest when you say, “I am.”

02/04/2024

02/04/2024

02/04/2024

A wonderful day for Nickel Bingo at the center. Join us once a month for prizes and treats!

02/04/2024

Happy to show off the Latchis' display case on display at the Guilford Welcome Center during February. Thanks to the State of Vermont and the folks at the Welcome Center for making this opportunity available to us.

02/04/2024

02/04/2024

Happy to finally be getting some snow in Maine that’ll stick after all the wet weather. The heavy snowfall and distance to the harbor really added a surreal layer to the lobster boats as they diminished into the distance.⁣
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