Matters of the heart are all about relationships and affections. You know, the stuff that everybody cares so much about, but no one likes to talk about it openly. I don’t, anyway. Do you? Don’t you keep some secrets?
What kinds of posts might address this topic? Posts about
There’s a lot of stuff to consider! I wondered, when I laid this blog’s hierarchy out, and included body, heart, mind, spirit as separate categories, whether it wouldn’t be appropriate to unite heart and spirit. But the two are separate.
The heart of each person functions fully, regardless of the ability of the spirit to be full and healthy. To put this another way, you don’t have to be a good person to really love someone, you just have to be human.
As Mick Jagger put it in Jigsaw Puzzle “The gangster, he looks frightening, with his Luger in his hand, but when he comes home to his children, he’s a family man.”
So people can be fully present and fully feeling, without being fully spiritual. Thus, the dividing line between the categories of heart and spirit.
My keyword research says that matters such as loneliness, how to write a good dating profile are huge draws. There is also a place for writing about our families, and how to get along. These are the matters that fall under the category “heart.”
Spring is here, and its time to acknowledge the realities … those who have put off dating “for a while” are being goaded, by their sensibilities, and their local weather, to take on a challenge that few anticipating facing at this point in life. Dating over 50 women is a lot like dating women under […]
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The modern loneliness epidemic burst on the scene last year with the surgeon general’s announcement. I have friends at work, the yoga studio, my support group, hiking group. Yet I too feel lonely, part of this loneliness epidemic. The New American Problem The Surgeon General, Vivek K Murthy, explained it this way. “When I first
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If the question is where to meet guys over 50, I can offer you a number of good location suggestions and several considerations for success.But first, let’s acknowledge the truth is, it’s hard to meet new people. And when trying to date, it can seem like everyone has someone, and “all the good ones are
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It Started with a Water Cooler Conversation How did I come up with the question of my non negotiables for a successful relationship? A couple of friends at work were talking about this today. “Me and my husband were sharing our non-negotiables,” said Letty, mother of three, a 30-year-old rising career woman. “What are non-negotiables?”
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The vicissitudes of web mastering: People have been searching here for the phrase “a man will never leave a woman who.” This seems to be coming from publishing the blog post “Who are the man women will never leave.” But the whole thing troubles me. The truth is, at first brush I could only speculate
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A few months back I reflected on this question: is being smart an advantage for dating? Rob Henderson has said that it is: I’m basically smart, aren’t you? You’re reading for fun, that makes me think that you’re above average in intelligence. Less intelligent people are watching videos. But is it possible: Being smart an
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Proem Sing Muse, of Susan, a woman of many wiles, tamer of horses and men and teacher of children and mistress of fashion and money and world traveler … and how one Thursday night she realized she was actually not as great as she always thought and just now as a result was about to
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Yesterday I went hiking with the Mountain’s Edge People. They were climbing up to the “A,” which is on the hillside above Colorado State University. Even though I went as fast as I could leaving school, I faced two traffic jams on Highway 34 and I couldn’t quite get there in time. And I had
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Dateline: August, in an AirBnB cabin in Saratoga, Wyoming, land of fabulous hiking trails and the famous Hobo Springs. And women who talk about our online dating practices. My hiking group, the Mountains Edge People, was having a weekend hike and hot springs trip. We drove two and a half hours over Wyoming wilderness. It
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I have to admit I am incompletely satisfied with my last post on the topic on what women want in a man. Long, discursive, and ultimately unsatisfying to me, I wondered if I had skirted the issue. Maybe what women want is not the issue. Maybe one needs to look at what women expect or
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