The Verbal Commute Less is More? Of Course!
Paul Andrew Doyle ~
paul@upbeattimes.com
Santa Rosa, CA. ~ I under- stand this cliche, but it can be confusing at times. T e theme of ‘less is more’ came up in a recent conver- sation. ‘How is less more?’ I said. It’s a bit confusing. If I have less, I have less, not more.
Even metaphori-
cally speaking it is hard to grasp...but just kidding, I do understand its meaning more than I can tell you. What I mean
sales and have made some good
money...so I could buy more stuff . Actually, in those past 20 years I’ve had to combine 4-5 households of stuff into one location. I closed my storage
and
We we’re only 200 yards away from our camp site in central Oregon, getting
is, go into your garage and look. What are you doing with all that stuff anyway? Boxes and boxes of stuff you’ve
ready to drive home to California, and this little squirrel jumps out of our truck engine and asked if he could come home with us to California. Get the full story in our September 2016 issue of the Upbeat Times...
not looked inside of in years. Memorabilia, knickknacks, stuff , papers, more stuff
...and it just sits there. Why is it hard to part with it at times? Only you know the answer. In the last 20 years I’ve had to get rid of tons of things. I’ve had a few garage
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got rid of even more things. It has felt good too. I realize I don’t miss much of it at all. As I’ve rid myself of these ex- tra
en m s I things,
I’ve donated a bunch to local organi- zations have
that turned
it into money to help oth- ers. It feels
good to do that. And I mean, I’ve donated useful well work- ing things. Even as I have rid myself of
things I don’t need, I want to get rid of more. When I was younger, I wanted certain things to be a part of my life, ... continued on page 4
Santa Rosa, CA. ~ Hello, my name is Melissa and I work as the activity coordinator in the assisted living unit at Spring Lake Village here in Santa Rosa, California. Every morning we start off our day reading from the Upbeat Times. WE LOVE IT! So thank you for this great magazine! This summer my 9 year old daughter is traveling with my parents from the east bay all the way to New York doing the Route 66 drive. Katelynn took the Upbeat Times with her to read in the car to my parents. They left June 30th, so she is reading the July edi-
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tion on the IPad. Katelynn is also taking pictures as she goes with the Upbeat Times and she would really love it if she could be in the paper for the August edition. She would love to start the 4th grade and show it to all of her friends. August is also my birthday so it would be a fun gift for me to show to my residents here at Spring Lake Vil- lage. I have a few pictures and plenty more on the way for the next few months of Upbeat!
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First Humor Some guy bought
a new fridge for his house. To get rid of his old fridge, he put it in his front yard and hung a sign on it saying: ‘Free to good home. You want it, you take it.’ For three days the fridge sat there without anyone looking twice. He eventually decided that people were too mistrustful of this deal.
So he changed the sign to read: ‘Fridge for sale $50.’
The next day someone stole it!
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