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Show Thursday, November 6, 2003 Davis County Clipper DavisSpirit Children keep volunteer laughing liili BY DELOA senim SHARP Take tlie time to 'de-clutt- are We house, closets, garages and storage units How many of these things could you live without9 How many have unpacked the last box and hung the last picture and are comfortably settled into our new home Mm ing has got to be one of the most unpleasant tasks in this life yet at the same time we feel Mark and Gayle that everyone Van really make your life worthwhile? How many of your possessions give you true pleasure and happiness? How many of these things do you really Wagoner should move at least every 10 years Why9 This way. you will be forced to evaluate all your "stuff and decide if it is worth moving, keeping donating or trashing It is an opportunity to your life and org une all the things vou have collected over the past decade It also gives vou a chance to find lost articles ( Oh. that is where put th.it thing jig) It is also an opportunity to dust behind all your furniture and appliances It really gives you i chance to thoroughly clean vour home, and a clean home is the sign of a clean nund It is a chance to freshen 1 ia upvotii space" We were thinking of all the homeowners who lost everything in the fires ot southern California We listened to s interviews with those and many of them were gratctul foi the chance to start over again Ilie sutvivois were all grateful lor their lives but onlv a lew were devastated because of their lost posses sums rticy were forced to consider the ti ue value of things" Ilieie comes a time when your possessions start owning vou and things start controlling vour life You have to maintain, insure dean and work at every convenience" that we have Sociologists are discovering that in spite ol all our conveniences, we aie spending more time taking caie ot and maintaining all our items so that we actually have less time to do our favonte things in life Some "convenience,"huh Out spaces m life are the places where we go to relax and meditate Those spaces are important to our general wellbeing I vervone needs a place wheic they can go to unwind and organize life, (as much as it can be oig.mized) If our space is clutteied and duty it is impossible to fed the peace vou aie searching for Instead, there is a Icclmg of being overwhelmed and guilty because vou cant seem to control your ciiv iioninent The more you own the more you h ive to vvoiry about what you own Think of all the items in vour home-owner- time-savin- - your life er' need"? It is worth thinking about The same goes for all the activities in our lues How cluttered is your calendar9 Are all the items in your daytimcr necessary for your well being and happiness9 We are busier than we've ever been as a society and yet we have less satisfaction in our lives What is wrongwith this picture9 It is the great paradoxof our time where we have more and do more hut are enjoying it less We couldn't believe it when a fourth grader we know came home with a I ranklin planner Me are not saying that L ranklin planners are hid (vve both own and use one) but d when does a need to worry about scheduling problems ' gram," said Hadlow So one-on-on- 1 f" y &., S Ay a .v . 'wt nme-vearol- s The trend today is to simplifand live a life of y, simple abundance To go bac-to the values that worked and Our lives cut the rest loose husv have become too our k k Let's try to do less with "things" and more with each other" Lets try for the' simply abundant life g' r CONE REGISTER NOW! 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I spent time teaching him Upper Correspondent to snap his fingers He was so proud he looked BOUNTIFUL Ohio native Nancy Hadlow feels right at me when he did it in the program" like the Art Linkletter of She is so pleasant Meadowbrook Elementary and cheerful," said princiKids do say in Bountiful Fillmore Sharia the darndest things and pal "She s spent hundreds of she's got the notes to prove hours volunteering and it has made a huge, huge Each child is so predifference to our kids cious and has his own little Lfadlow said They love her and the personalitv," teachers lov e her" If their mothers only When Hadlow retired knew what they tell me after 14 years as Dietary Her notebook chronicling the kids' exploits is Supervisor at Lakeview filled with gems such as, Hospital she decided to volunteer one day a week "The batteries in my stomMeadowbrook at ach are weanng out My stomach Flementarv School Nine is growling vears later, she can be because my battenes need VOLUNTEER NANCY HADLOW has developed a special relationship with her found in the kindergarten to be fed students. Above, she reads to Lauren Hadlow and Cody Barak. rooms four hours every Or Mv fingers didn't dav helping with math, Hadlow tests the children to and sixth graders come back and get enough sleep last night re too a move tired to her a about had Shes see how know much reading and testing They hug huge they give Shes been at Meadowbrook Also, a little boy showing off themselves One time she asked a impact on the school" e his new shoes said Iaxik at my little girl When are you going to Her time with the long enough to have the siblings whose birthdays the kids proudly new hind end kickers be six9" students produces outstanding announced veais earlier When asked what their results It only takes a couple of The little girl replied When The kids I had when I started favorite food is, the number one weeks to teach them to spell their get thiough being five" said chilnow in junior high are favorite is macaroni and cheese also She She obviously loves the works on their names Hidlow They sometimes come Some lesser known favorites for address and phone number dren and they love her Everyone breakfast are gummy worms and looks forward to spending time Sometimes she veers into non-coi- e back and see me Thev've grown hear what's with Hadlow gummv hears subjects such as finger snap-pm- g so much Its fun to ' them to One little girl confided that the wonderful most happened Nancy is when she grew up she was going One little boy told me he Volunteering is the most fun person vou could rieet, said Ive ever had' said Hadlow to be a waitiess at Dairy Queen teacher Becky Wheeler They couldn't go into first grade Lver body should do it Its such because They have good hot because he couldn't snap Ins fin whine and cry Pick me1 when a fifth The does the a had lor haven't turn good experience" gers kindergarten piothey C 0o interest for three months w th rae c cavment from a Z Automat a s Ba v & ac 3 k L n y i, &&& '&&!&&&& APR s fe t3 cgoo he 0af 4 tuN A r orj i t 9 V a e av at m 3 qja b e p c FD1C sla s |