Zen Within Reach
Now is the perfect time to take a little break from your own garden and explore some places where other green thumbs have been working. If you are looking for peace and order, then visit one of the public Japanese gardens in the Twin Cities.

• Como Ordway Memorial Japanese Garden at Como Park in St. Paul
• Normandale Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington
• Seisui Tei Garden at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska

Catch a Wild Book
Have you ever seen a book left in a public area? It may be a Book Crossing book, waiting for you to read it and then release it “into the wild.” Book Crossing is a global organization dedicated to making the world a library.

It’s easy to add to the fun: Choose one of your books. Register it online (you’ll receive an ID number). Then set the book free and track its journey online.

Kate recently found Stephen King’s The Green Mile on a bench in White Bear Lake. Believe it or not, she’d planned to read that book that very week. According to the Book Crossing Web site, the book was released for the first time on the bench. It’s now traveling in Cologne, Germany.

American Medical Writers Association
Clients turn to High Point for health care marketing communications. And when those communications require highly technical medical terms and concepts, we turn to the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA). The AMWA is the leading professional organization for medical communicators with more than 5,000 members from around the world ... including the High Point team.

Look to the Past to Live in the Now
Here is an excerpt from How Now, 100 Ways to Celebrate the Present Moment by Raphael Cushnir.

Toy Time
"Remember the Slinky? Pick-Up Sticks? Jacks? Legos? The toys you loved the most as a child provided countless hours of enraptured contentment. Until the call came for dinner or bedtime, you wanted nothing else but to be where you were, doing exactly what you were doing. The good news is that no matter how many years have passed, those favorite toys can still work their very same magic."

The passage then entreats you to take a trip to the store, stock up and play ... with no thought to clocks, distractions and to-do lists. (Note for Gen Xers and younger: feel free to substitute Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Barbie and other age-appropriate pastimes.)

Anyone for a game of Mousetrap?

Fresh Energy
Last month, an organization known for 16 years as Minnesotans for an Energy Efficient Economy changed its name and unveiled an intesive re-branding effort intended to better reflect the broader scope of its organization. Today’s Fresh Energy is a nonprofit organization leading the transition to a clean, efficient and fair energy system. Working in partnership with the Web design and development team at Voyageur I.T., High Point Creative focused its energy on refining the copy for the new site. You can check out our work there – and learn about the important work Fresh Energy is doing to enhance our economy, protect human health and communities, restore our environment and establish energy independence.

White Bear Lake: A Boating Tour
Hot off the press is a boat tour relating the notable people, places and events that have shaped the remarkable history of White Bear Lake. The tour was conceived and underwritten by Kate, researched and written by historian Mary Jane LaVigne and designed by Peggy Zetah. Contact Kate if you want a copy. Funds from sales of the tour go to support the White Bear Lake Area Historical Society.

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