Entries for the 'lifestyle' Category

Preston Swofford rises early each morning, works out, and then starts his shift at St. Edward Mercy.  Sounds pretty ordinary until you consider that he's ninety, and he doesn't have to be here.  This is what he lives to do.

The Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville has a series of events planned for its second ever Artosphere series.  If you like music, theater, art, biking, or gardening, there's something for you.

They’ve been in for about a year and a half. But there are still times Mark and Kristine Stanley, and their two boys, Marek and Seth, are tempted to pinch themselves as they bask in the sun pouring through the wall of windows...

Sister Macrina Wiederkehr stands at a podium, occasionally lifting her hand to her heart while she speaks. Below her on a table flickers a candle beside a rock with these two words carved into it: “Be Still.”

When Randy and Marquitta Keen found themselves facing an empty nest they wondered what the future held.  The answer came when The CALL (Children of Arkansas Loved for a Lifetime) visited their church in Fort Smith last fall

When do you feel most energized?  For me, it is when I am in the garden, smelling the wonderful aroma of a healthy garden soil.  Indeed, I do take pride in turning my garden soil into a biologically alive and healthy medium. 

One plot demonstrates raised bed construction and another is filled with plants native to the River Valley. A vertical garden shows how to garden in a limited space, and a labyrinth is set in raised beds of flowers and herbs along a garden path.

Matt Miller is a follower of spherical living, a concept he uncovered while talking to his traveling buddy in Morocco.  The philosophy is a simple one: we start out rounded, untouched by our environment, unscathed by negativity, not yet influenced by the expectations of others.  That is our pure spherical state.

Barry Johnson sits with one boot propped on his knee and leans back on his leather couch at Horseshoe Canyon Ranch lodge near Jasper, Arkansas. He’s facing the mounted head of an enormous Wyoming Elk, and his back is turned towards large windows that show off towering rocks.