Category: Happiness

The Best Thing About Aging 1

March 8, 2010

When you’re blonde and you shouldn’t be, it feels tense to be around. Remember the relief when Pretty Woman took off the blonde wig? You FELT your insides relax.

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Creativity And The Meaning Of Mind-Body Exercise

February 10, 2010

Since I’m forced to do something essentially boring, I’ve had time to ponder why so many more good ideas come to me on the bike than when I’m having a hot bath. Same thing with driving. I believe that my left brain feels busy and important, or thinks it is, so the other side is free to wander.

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The DVD I Use To Heal

January 26, 2010

I believe that there is no division between Nature and our bodies, between the energy fields around us and within us. There is also no distinction between what is happening to your body and what is happening in your mind. Your Deeper Self and these forces are one and the same, completely swirling and intertwined.

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Letting Things Be Easy

January 8, 2010

Do I do it too? What am I making be hard?
Revealing answer : “This is how Karen felt watching me trying to register a business name and deal with Revenue Canada!” I was all in a fluff and she was thinking “Why are you MAKING this be hard?”

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Gifts from Real People 2

November 28, 2009

Ours in not a family that can give $250 watches as gifts, though the magazines tell us that we’re supposed to give them and expect to receive them.
For those of us, which includes most of us, who shop at our local malls and box stores, how about these?

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A Perfect Soul

November 20, 2009

This is the story of a dog that was born without forelimbs. Faith is the demonstration of the strength and wonder of life.

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Are Sex and Power Opposites?

November 15, 2009

The 2mm of cleavage Ms. Clinton revealed was too much. She reduced her ability to be taken seriously and she compromised the impact of her message. She also seemed somehow vulnerable to dumb advice, because she allowed fashion to override her instinct and sense. Assuming that the men on her playing field are wired differently is wrong.

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Gifts From Real People 1

October 23, 2009

Here we go again. Every magazine is showing gift suggestions. There are some lovely ideas but if you live in Canada, if you live in a small town, and/or if you can’t spend $50 on each person (nevermind the $250 bar set), what do real people give? What do real people want?

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Sites To Know : Whimfield : Modern Pre-Industrial Living

October 13, 2009

This is the story of Laura-Jane and Cameron. It begins 2 years ago in Victoria, BC. In December, they packed their possessions into trailer, sold the condo, put away the tight skirts and high heels, acquired a pair of snow boots, and headed East towards a hazy horizon on which sat an old blue PEI farmhouse listed on the MLS site.

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Book Review: My Stroke Of Insight

September 6, 2009

The deepest joy, the most profound peace and calm and understanding, the most expansive and interconnected oneness, pure happiness – they’re already there. They always were. These are the parts of the brain that have been shown to be stimulated when prayer or meditation attain their highest absolute. There are other ways of getting there than having a L-sided stroke. What if it were just a matter of choosing to be there?

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