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by Dorree Lynn, PhD
Actress Estelle Getty, best known for her famed role in the TV show The Golden Girls, passed away July 22nd at the age of 84. The Golden Girls was a revolutionary and much loved American sitcom that highlighted getting older as a time for fun, friendship, and laughter. The Golden Girls aired from 1985 to 1992 on NBC, and featured four retired women living together in Miami, bickering, teasing, talking about sex and life, and loving each other through it all.
Getty played “Sophia,” otherwise known as “Ma,” the diminutive, wise cracking, sarcastic, and energetic mother of Bea Arthur’s character, Dorothy. Sophia always recounted tales of her days living in Sicily, her past loves, friends, and of course memories of Italian food and traditions. Most of her stories started out like this, “Picture it! Sicily! 1947! It was a rainy April night…
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by Marilyn Bagel
Something happens to us when we get into a hammock.
I’d like to think that hammocks were invented to get us off our feet and temporarily stop the world with their mesmerizing, gentle, back-and-forth motion.
No more thinking about what has to be fixed around the house, or why you dislike the annoying office colleague in the next cubicle, or what your significant other did or didn’t do to tick you off.
This is where soothing random thoughts come and go like waves on a beach.
Whether you’re in a hammock for five minutes or fifty, the effect is the same.
Quiet moments and smiles evoked from thoughts that are shared only within your own mind...
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