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LA wildfires: 3 best recovery tips to survive any disaster

Wildfires require extreme recovery tips.

Folks in LA are shocked at the speed of destruction.

  • Over 12,000 properties obliterated
  • 24 found dead, more missing, and many injured
  • Roughly 180,000 forced from their homes
Recovery from LA wildfires
Night-long exposure photo of LA wildfire 2025/FrozenShutter/GettyImages

Could you survive if you were ambushed by a natural or unnatural disaster?

Three parachutes make the difference between recovery and death.

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LA wildfires: 3 best recovery tips to survive any disaster

Refresh the fountain: Three steps to renew your spirit in 2025

Refresh and renew are great words for 2025.

Nothing flows unless there’s refilling. Refilling like a swimming pool.

Imagine you are in a beautiful swimming pool.

Refresh and renew regularly
Refresh your spirit like a swimming pool/Creative images/Adobe stock

Water is clear and clean . . .

. . . when the right chemicals are mixed in every week.

Here are three steps to refresh your spirit in 2025.

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Refresh the fountain: Three steps to renew your spirit in 2025

Navigate your pain victoriously: 3 hints from the first Christmas

Pain pops up at Christmas.

Maybe it’s because the holidays often revolve around regrets.

  • Family
  • Health
  • Money

Christmas is a nice distraction from some of these when the kids or grandkids are young.

But as you, your parents, and the kids age, Christmas shines a spotlight on pain.

Three hints from the first Christmas convert pain into bright steps toward the future.

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Navigate your pain victoriously: 3 hints from the first Christmas

Three Outstanding Gifts Relieve Trauma in a Post-Election Christmas

Three gifts from Charles Dickens relieve trauma this Christmas.

Christmas sasanquas relieve trauma
Camellia susanqua ‘Yuletide’ flowers/ Athens,TX/December 2024

Savor them for a meaningful and fulfilling holiday season.

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Three Outstanding Gifts Relieve Trauma in a Post-Election Christmas

Two must-read books make perfect holiday gifts

Inspire yourself, family, or friends with two must-read books over the holiday season.

books for inspirational holidays
Ron Hall and Denver Moore, #1 N.Y. Times bestselling authors

They are written by a wealthy art dealer and a homeless ex-con.

Ron Hall and Denver Moore shared their remarkable story at my wife’s book club 2007.

I will never forget it, nor will you if you join their magical ride.

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Two must-read books make perfect holiday gifts