I attended Mount Holyoke College, in South Hadley, Massachusetts, which has a wonderful annual tradition, Mountain Day. When Mountain Day is declared, everyone at the school gets the day off. Today is Mountain Day. Thanks to Facebook, I knew it the minute I got up and checked my computer. Three years ago, I blogged about Mountain Day. I’ve decided to re-run that post, since it’s as relevant today as it was then.
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I often tell my clients (and anyone else who will listen) how important it is to reward yourself. Most of us work so hard and we often don’t let ourselves take a break. Especially when it comes to big clutter projects, I think it’s really important to reward progress and not wait until everything’s finished before you let yourself have some fun.
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Today is Mountain Day at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. I’m a proud member of the class of 1984 of Mount Holyoke, an august institution steeped in tradition. One of my favorite MHC traditions is Mountain Day, which first began in 1838. Once a year, on a beautiful fall day the early-morning pealing of the clock tower’s bells for five minutes let students know they are freed of academic obligations for the day. They’re encouraged to climb Mount Holyoke (which is really more of a hill than a mountain, says a person who never bothered to climb it).
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I spent Memorial Day weekend with some of my oldest and dearest friends. The occasion was our 25th college reunion. It seems impossible to me that it’s been 29 years since I met some of these women, in the ivy-covered halls of Mount Holyoke College. I’d traveled 3,000 miles from Walla Walla, Washington, to South Hadley, Massachusetts, showing up, alone, at a college I’d never seen, except in the lushly photographed pre-internet, pre-VHS print materials. I managed to connect with some wonderful kindred spirits right from the start.
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