Lauren Rosenfeld

How to Be Amazed: See the Wonder in Small Things

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Wonder is all around us. When we were children, we saw it everywhere we looked. Everything was new, fresh, amazing. We grabbed the closest adult to show them these small miracles we saw in the world, from the brilliant yellow dandelions spouting through the grass, to the shape-shifting of a summer cloud. As adults, we [...]

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When to listen to fear (and when not to)

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If fear tells you not to step onto a pond that has just frozen over, it is a good idea to listen to fear. But if fear tells you not to set foot outside your door in the winter because there may be frozen ponds out there, it’s best to overcome the voice of fear, [...]

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Forget about resolutions. Instead: Envision! Intend! Act!

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I’m not a big fan of New Year’s Resolutions. It seems to me that besides being notoriously hard to keep — there’s a lot of negative judgment hidden within them. And I honestly don’t think you have to dig too deep to find the judgment. Usually that judgment is right there, just below the surface, [...]

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The Meal. The Moment. The Memory.

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                                      If you only looked at the raw ingredients, it didn’t really amount to much.  Pancake mix. Water. Food coloring.  But then there were other ingredients as well: creativity, ingenuity, resourcefulness, cooperation, generosity, lovingkindness. James and I [...]

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Be Amazed: No Moment is Ever Truly Ordinary!

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(There is a) statement from the book of Ecclesiastes “There is nothing new under the sun.” And I disagree with that statement! I would say there is nothing stale under the sun, except that human beings become stale. I try not to be stale.  And everything is new. No two moments are alike – and [...]

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How To Be Courageous: What I learned from letting go

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My parents collected coffee mugs.  Lots of them.  For decades, everywhere they went in the world, from Topeka, Kansas to the Topkapi Palace they found a mug emblazoned with the name of their point of destination and brought it home, where it sat on a shelf, testament to their lifelong love of travel and their [...]

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How to be Appreciative: Appreciating Appreciation

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Kids are naturally like miniature lawyers. They are always on the lookout for a good loophole. So (for example) if you were to ask a child what they would ask for if they were granted three wishes they would say something like, “My first wish would be for an X-Box Kinect . . . and [...]

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Be Different: Because in being different, we are all the same

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. – Walt Whitman, Song of Myself Just the other day I was watching a cute human-interest story on the local news. The subject of the report was a local school production [...]

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How To Be Devoted: Wishing won’t make it easier. Practice will

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I wish . . . I wish I could play the cello. I wish I could do calligraphy. I wish I could rock climb. I wish I could grow an organic garden. I wish I could speak a foreign language. I wish . . . I wish . . . I wish . . . [...]

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A Mother’s Message of Love

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Sunday is Mother’s Day. My mother passed away fourteen years ago, in September of 1996. She had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer about eighteen months before. After surgery and treatment, she went into remission for over a year. In that time that she was in remission, I became pregnant with our first child. Her first [...]

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