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October Journal Challenge: People
Going hand in hand with things that made me happy, are people I am happy I got to see or talk to recently… Late last fall (2024), my Mom and I took a trip to see her sister and my cousins (Mom’s nieces). I hadn’t seen my cousins since I was 15 or 16, my…
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October Journal Challenge: Something that made me happy today!
I am writing this from The Fox Hotel & Suites in Banff National Park. We just got back from having dinner at the Chili’s Restaurant in the hotel (so much yum), I have a drink on the beside table, for the first time in weeks (if not months), the crazy ringing in my ears isn’t…
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October Journal Challenge: What I am grateful for this week
I am grateful for the amazing people in my life. Many of whom I’ve written about before on my blog. Chris, my sister, my husband, my step-mother. All have done good things this week that have made life better for me and I am thankful for them and appreciate them every single day. Late nights.…
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October Journal Challenge: Things that made you feel energized today!
It is noon as I start writing this – and out of the gate, I had a webinar at 9am MDT this morning that got me excited! It was on the merit evaluation criteria of NSERC Alliance grant applications. Which, to many, many sound dry and boring, but given my extensive work on the sustainability…
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Day 8: Eight Days of Gratitude (Lion’s Gate Portal) – gratitude for myself
Today was a bit puzzling… In so far as we had to look to ourselves to find it. Gratitude for ourselves. What qualities of mine am I grateful for? How have I shown up for myself? My physical, emotional, mental self. moments I’ve been kind to myself. Acts of courage. Capacity to love. Ability to…
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Day 7: Eight Days of Gratitude (Lion’s Gate Portal) – eleven places
What a sweet one… Eleven places – and not necessarily fancy places we’ve travelled. Special places to us. This warmed my heart and filled my mind. Unsure what I am talking about? You can catch the intro post here, but in short… The wellness studio I go to is running a free workshop this week,…
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Day 6: Eight Days of Gratitude (Lion’s Gate Portal) – eleven artists
Day six is exciting for me! Eleven artists for whom we are grateful. Now, specifically, when she was speaking on the challenge, she was listing musicians, but for me, personally, it is broader than that. Art is all encompassing, while music most certainly is an immense and vast part of my life, there are definitely…
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Day 5: Eight Days of Gratitude (Lion’s Gate Portal) – eleven things you have learned
Today’s task is to reflect on eleven things you have learned. Be it from formal education, life lessons, pearls of wisdom, on the job experience, or any other method or way of learning. There are so many things and ways one can learn. I found this an interesting and curious gratitude prompt. To be able…
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Day 4: Eight Days of Gratitude (Lion’s Gate Portal) – eleven things
I am caught up now! Today is eleven things you are grateful for that we maybe take for granted and this one was EASY. Things started flooding to me. Why? Maybe because I spent some time in my childhood without some of our modern conveniences… Sometimes, it is the simple things in life. Unsure what…
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Day 3: Eight Days of Gratitude (Lion’s Gate Portal) – eleven local businesses
For day three, the prompt was to express gratitude and name eleven businesses, and bonus was to write Google Reviews for three of them. As it happens, I wrote two reviews already in the past couple months for two of the companies I worked with on the recent renovation to our home. These businesses are…
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