In Challenging Times, Kindness and Awareness Light the Way As I reflect on our continuing challenging circumstances—the great unknowns and disasters of climate disruption, horrific and illegal behaviors by elected officials, economic craziness, and much more—several things are clear. First, compassion, care, and on-the-ground help are desperately needed for masses of people, almost always the…
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Summer Solstice is here! Hello dear family and friends, colleagues, fellow travelers… All of us are welcome on this journey, currently so very wild, exciting, pivotal, critical, scary, yet full of potential…. If you’re inclined to skip the notes below about Summer Solstice or Alignment, feel free to jump to the video at the end,…
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Growth mindset? Positive thinking? Our Mindset matters. In truth and fact, Mindset matters mightily. Where and how we put our attention, the thoughts we think, how we engage with them…all make a whopping difference… throughout my entire life, both inside and outside. Our thoughts, can, very literally, determine our emotions, our experience…and therefore our life, our functioning,…
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We’re Made to Dance: Let’s Do It! It’s been a recent aim of mine to get up from the computer more, move around, juggle, dance, have an “exercise snack”, as they say. And just today I came across this support from one of my favourite authors. Here’s an quote of his, Kurt Vonnegut, (he’s talking…
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Beauty is all around us — Outside and In. For weeks now the Universe has been sending me signs and messages of beauty: to pay attention to its inner and outer manifestations. For example, we are several weeks in to the explosion of the blooming in the Rhododendron garden in Stanley Park. I do not…
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Natural Resources: Always Available! Recently I was out for a leisurely walk with my sweetie, we did our first stroll of the year through the incredible Rhododendron Garden in nearby Stanley Park. I let myself drop into the explosion of nature that is happening in my part of the world, and probably in yours. The…
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In honour of International Women’s Day, particular attention to remembering and noticing the power of our words and thoughts, indeed the power of our mind, seems appropriate, relevant, and even vital. Here are some motivational stories and actions to inspire us! Shakespeare, the Buddha and many others have spoken about the power of thoughts, words, mind. An earlier…
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Embracing the Unknown … What a trip it is, being alive! We are inundated by wild, scary, unsettling, as well as heartening, gratifying and fortuitous developments — in our personal lives, affecting all people and our whole planet. Positive thinking! Life Transformation! May we seize the many opportunities to help bend that moral arc toward…
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Letting Go of Perfection: Said and Done! Recently I was struck by an essay about letting go of perfection. I have grappled with perfectionism for decades, so this essay immediately resonated with me and I decided it was a “perfect” theme for this note :-). This seemingly simple word has many layers of meaning. Each…
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Let us take time together, amidst and acknowledging the chaos and challenges happening in our world, to celebrate the flow and unfolding of life, the seasons, the glory of the sun, stars, and planets. Here is an inspiring Story of the Universe by Wendell Berry, actually about the unfolding of the Cosmos!! Perfect to start off the…
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Savouring Ceremony: Celebrating the Dark Days. Once again the turning of the wheel of the year has brought us close to the darkest days of the year. These days can be times for quiet and reflection, but also of rebirth and renewal. This short days invite us inward, but also herald the return of the…
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The Fact of Universal Kindness Makes All the Difference: As one response to challenging situations in the world at large, and maybe in our personal development and our lives, I invite us to remember the fact (and it is a fact), of universal kindness. I have noticed the kindnesses around me recently, and they are…
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