It is a rare pleasure that you get the chance to spend time with yourself, in complete solitude, enjoying the pattern of your thoughts play out in your mind until they become like so much background noise, and you find yourself living in the moment. This is the ultimate goal of most forms of meditation, [...]
Posted on October 28th, 2009 by admin
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One morning we were in the mood for a drive. It was a nice warm fall morning, the sun was shinning and there were hardly any clouds in the sky. We headed out of Memphis to the east on two lane highways. We drove along the winding roads through the hills and valleys of southern [...]
Posted on October 27th, 2009 by admin
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One of the best things about traveling to New York are the live shows. This past Saturday night a legend of the music world played at Madison Square Garden. Leonard Cohen just put out a new album last week, and just a month following Cohen’s seventy fifth birthday he took the stage and rocked the [...]
Posted on October 26th, 2009 by admin
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The previous sales management training I received on my other job has actually allowed me to survive in this economic black hole. Though I was one of the many who got fired from my previous job, I am grateful for the time I spent there as it helped me to get another job almost two [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2009 by admin
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The smell of a summer grill is really tough to beat. It inspires memories in everyone, and brings back the carefree days of childhood, when the only real worry was if there would be enough hot dogs. When you have your own outdoor kitchen, all this is available, and it becomes a lifestyle, dedicating at [...]
Posted on October 19th, 2009 by admin
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Traveling to Cape Town can be one of the most exciting times in a life, holding the potential for splendid memories that are impossible to even imagine ahead of time. Rich in culture, and beautiful beyond measure, Cape Town is in one of the most amazing countries in the world, and it’s an extremely lively [...]
Posted on October 19th, 2009 by admin
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This year the company did something completely different with our Halloween party. Rather than just the usual games, the usual punch, and the usual candy, management decided to make Halloween a corporate team building programs experience. A few employees were irritated by this sudden information, but the experiences went well in the end. Everyone was [...]
Posted on October 14th, 2009 by admin
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For our anniversary I booked us a suite at Indianapolis luxury hotels we will be spending 4 days and 3 nights, as they say on the game shows. It is going to be a surprise, I know Indianapolis probably doesn’t sound all that exotic but it is a great place to visit and there are [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2009 by admin
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I had the best time in Dubai! Dubai so cool! I was really scared about going at first, I mean, I was flying into a strange land, but it was the best thing I’ve ever done. I stayed in a five star hotel in Dubai and it was the best, so clean and lavish, opulent [...]
Posted on October 12th, 2009 by admin
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Duluth, MN is a port city located on the banks of Lake Superior in north eastern MN. In 1886 Duluth was declared “The Zenith City of the United States of the Unsalted Sea” by Dr. Thomas Preston Foster the founder of the first news paper in Duluth, MN. In those days Duluth was on the [...]
Posted on October 7th, 2009 by admin
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Singapore is a haven for travelers, offering the very best of the old and the new. Tradition and history run through this old port, and it offers many interesting sights for the curious, and a sweet sense of classical hospitality everywhere. Singapore is also splendidly in touch, and a few steps ahead, of the rest [...]
Posted on October 6th, 2009 by admin
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Cape Town, South Africa is the capital of the Western Cape and the most populated city in South Africa. Cape Town was originally developed by the Dutch East India Company and quickly became a major import export area. It is also the most popular city in South Africa for drawing tourists from all over the [...]
Posted on October 5th, 2009 by admin
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