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Hi GPODers! While we absolutely appreciate the understated beauty of winter gardens here at GPOD, we can also use a dose of summer color to keep our spirits high when the outside world is cold and gray. Lee, from the Mohawk Valley of New York, is providing us with our inspiring dose of summer color …
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We’ve all had relationships that linger in our minds long after they’ve ended. Maybe you can’t stop thinking about a past partner, or you find yourself drawn to a friend who’s no longer in your life. These lingering emotional connections—often called “soul ties”—can drain your mental energy, interfere with your growth, and hold you back …
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“What makes Heroic?” asked Nietzsche as he was emerging from depression, then answered: “To face simultaneously one’s greatest suffering and one’s highest hope.” That is the heroism of the inner world, yes, but what makes a person heroic in the world we share is to face the greatest suffering — their own and the world’s …
Continue reading “John Berger on the Courage to Create – The Marginalian”
The best sofa beds promise a handy two-in-one solution; both a sofa for relaxing and entertaining and a comfortable bed for guests. Historically, though, they have been neither. They seemed to be too firm and unyielding as a sofa and uncomfortable and creaky as a bed. That’s a surefire recipe for back pain. But the …
The billionaire founder of UK online fashion house PrettyLittleThing has vowed to change the way the company works, after customers complained about ‘poor sizing and poor quality’. Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Manchester entrepreneur Umar Kamani, 36, said he was personally working to improve customer experience after a post he’d made this week on the brand’s …
Citizens’ Advice is bracing itself for a “really difficult” winter ahead of the scrapping of winter fuel payments for 10 million pensioners, the charity’s boss says. From next month, those not on pension credit or other means-tested benefits will no longer get the annual payments, worth between £100 and £300. Dame Clare Moriarty, who will …
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Hi GPODers! Today we’re getting an exciting update on a project we saw the very beginning of last year. Nicki Snoblin decided to remove some of her front yard to create a bed for pollinator-friendly perennials. She shared the beginning process and earliest plantings here: Nicki’s New Garden Project (but Nicki has shared photos several …
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Have you ever felt like you’re drifting through life, unsure of where you’re headed or what you’re working towards? If so, you’re not alone. Many of us find ourselves caught up in the day-to-day hustle, losing sight of our bigger aspirations and dreams. But what if there was a way to change that? What if …
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“You will never get any more out of life than you expect,” Bruce Lee wrote to himself. All expectation is a story of the possible. Every person lives inside a story of who they are, what they are worth, and what is possible for their life, and suffers in proportion to how conscious they are …
Thanks for joining me today. Traders are ramping up bets that the pound will fall in the coming months amid a growing conviction that the Bank of England will cut interest rates before the US. The level of wagers placed by investors against sterling has hit a 16-month high, according to data from the US …
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