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It's Gratitude Week - Thank you's are Important

It’s Gratitude Week – Thank you’s are Important

November 21, 2012 Dear Carter and Anne: I’ll bet the smells of pies being baked; turkey roasting are filling your homes. Instead of Thanksgiving Day I call this “Gratitude Week.” I make a point of writing or calling people to thank them for things big or little they have done this year that helped me. […]

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THE ELECTION'S OVER ... Let's wear purple!

THE ELECTION’S OVER … Let’s wear purple!

Wednesday, November 7, 2012! Dear Anne & Carter: Where I live, people climb up on the sand dunes on Route One and write messages in ice plant every day. Usually it’s love notes, or Happy Birthday Joe!’ type of things; but yesterday’s read: BAROCK THE VOTE! And Thank Goodness he did!! I make no bones […]

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Monthly Gatherings of Crones in Monterey

Monthly Gatherings of Crones in Monterey

MONTHLY GATHERINGS OF CRONES Continuing November 11th, 2012 2-4pm Every 2nd Sunday: Nov 11th, Dec 9th, Jan 13th, Feb 10th, Mar 10th, April14th, etc. Monterey Peace Resource Center 1364 Fremont Blvd Seaside, CA 93955 2$ Love Offering to Peace Center Monthly gatherings of women of age, sharing stories, gifting us with workshops with their own […]

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Happy 10th Birthday!

Happy 10th Birthday!

October 24, 2012 Dear Anne: Happy Birthday! Wow … you have been growing up a full decade, ten years! I can hardly imagine what you must look like, or what type of birthday party you and your very creative mother have planned. The last one I went to you were three. It was ninety degrees […]

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RED TENT CEREMONIES .. welcome to womanhood!

RED TENT CEREMONIES .. welcome to womanhood!

This is the latest letter to my invisible grand-daughter … October 15, 2012 Dear Anne, You’ll be ten years old on October 24th! How I wish I could see how you are growing into a young woman, a “maiden” in the three phases of women’s lives: Maiden, Mother and Crone. The maiden is the stage […]

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Pat Hanson Promotes Aging Positively!

Pat Hanson Promotes Aging Positively!

The senior page in our local newspaper The Monterey County Herald wrote a grrreat piece on what I do and will continue to thanks to support like this and from all of you! A link to read the entire article is in the ABOUT ME section.

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Jane Fonda as Invisible Grandparent!

Jane Fonda as Invisible Grandparent!

Jane Fonda latest movie “Peace Love and Mis-Understanding,” made me cry: my criteria for a good movie. Aging hippie flower-child aptly named Jane Fonda, sporting a long curly grey streaked wig, is surprised by a visit to her Woodstock farm by her 40-something stuffy NYC attorney daughter (Catherine Keener) and her teenage children. For reasons […]

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Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother’s Day!

“Mother’s hold their children’s hands for a little while, but they hold their hearts forever” was the quote on the program in church this morning. I got misty-eyed as I do every week when the children come in to sit in front of the choir. Forget about wondering what my grandaughter looks like or whether […]

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Little Squeeze, Big Squeeze

Little Squeeze, Big Squeeze

BLOG – Little Squeeze/Big Squeeze  – April 22, 2012 The artist/author of a great book I’ve just been gifted, Erin, Lee Gafill, tells of a day she’d taken her six year old nephew for a walk on the beach and as they came back: ‘’We saw a lone seal slide out of a wave onto […]

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Happy Resurrection Day!

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Happy Resurrection Day!

April 9, 2012 Dear Anne and Carter: Yesterday was Easter, and my eyes teared up as they do most weeks, as I watched the children file into our ‘rockin’ Gospel church’ (www.innerlightministries.com). Not too many people had on ‘Easter bonnets’ as I did. But as that tune of a very old song went came to […]

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Happy Birthday to Me! A-gain …

March 1st 2012 and I’m si …six … six-tee seven! How’d that happen? Here’s how, according to Mike Dooley in my favorite all time set of daily affirmations. Go to www.tut.com … I sent you. PAT PS If you want to see how I celebrate most years, I’ve added a peek at 9 years ago: […]

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