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Marymac Missions is a Sustainable Business Leader!
On April 11, 2012, Marymac Missions officially became the 99th graduate of the Sustainable Business Leader Program offered by the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Boston. We are a certified Sustainable Business Leader through the year 2014! We worked with SBLP coordinator Katrina Kazda and other team members over two years to make changes and [...]
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New! Life Coaching for Caregivers and Receivers
Friends, One year ago, on Good Friday of Holy Week, I was called by a long-term family caregiver in New Mexico who benefited so much from our forty-minute conversation she told me I should become a life coach. I became certified as a Professional Coach and Group Leader this past December. Since then, I’ve coached [...]
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Seeds Planted, Tended… Grow
Another great quote from Judi Neal’s Edgewalker e-news: As great as learning is, it is important to realize that knowledge is meaningless unless we apply what we have learned. The seeds of knowledge will blow away in the wind unless they are planted in our everyday life. The seedlings must be tended regularly by watering [...]
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Giving Birth to our Images
Thanks to Judi Neal for the following Edgewalker quote: You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness that you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the hour, the birth of new clarity. — Ranier Maria Rilke Here’s [...]
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Quarterly Update – Spring 2012
The Marymac Missions’ Quarterly Update – Spring 2012 is now available. Headlines for this quarter include: - Rest.Stop.Ranch On-site Programs 2012 Schedule created to reach family and professional caregivers North, South and West of Boston and teach Seven Sustainable Skills for the Long-Term Care Journey - Rest.Stop.Ranch Respite Retreat Center (development) – Mary & Karl [...]
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Vision for our shared future
Please read the vision statement I’ve crafted. This is my first attempt to capture my vision for our shared future in a statement. I welcome your comments and questions! Moving forward with a listening heart, vision, inquiry, and action, ~ Mary marymac missions’ vision: caregivers and receivers feel and know the presence of caring community [...]
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Follow @marymacmissions on Twitter!
Time has come for me to find my twitter voice. As a former family dementia caregiver in an ongoing process of recovery and renewal, and the founder of a social enterprise championing health and wellness for caregivers and receivers, I didn’t feel I had much to tweet about before now. I wasn’t sure what role [...]
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Quarterly Update – Winter 2011
The Marymac Missions’ Quarterly Update – Winter 2011 is now available. Headlines for this quarter include: - Mary Speaks: Brooksby Village Chapel Presentation 10/5/2011 - Marymac Missions’ YouTube Channel created 10/14/2011 - On-site Programs 2012 Schedule started - 0.1 Mile MargFMac Front Garden Loop Provides Universal Access to Seven Gardens (Completed 11/15/2011) - Holiday Walk [...]
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Accessible Gardens at Rest.Stop.Ranch
Seven unique garden areas are now wheelchair accessible at Rest.Stop.Ranch, our home, in Topsfield, MA, USA. The MargFMac Front Garden Loop is a .1 mile wheelchair accessible path providing access to the Cut Flower Garden, Fruit and Veggie Garden, Orchard Avenue, Ornamental Tree and Shrub Garden, Raspberry Patch, Cedar Grove and Tunnel, and Koi Pond. [...]
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Heart Care, Dementia Care 2012 Syracuse, NY