Tag: Writing
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October Journal Challenge: Ways I’ve shown kindness or empathy recently
While I will occasionally pay it forward and pay for someone’s coffee in the drive thru lineup, I haven’t done that in a while. And while I know there are ways to give that help more, I do give to the local unhoused who ask for change. We also support our local foodbank and shelters…
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October Journal Challenge: Ways I’ve stepped out of my comfort zone (lately)
Wellllllll… Let’s just start by saying I’ve taken on way more than I can chew. I feel like I’ve been running non-stop for days and I am not catching up. I did my Reiki master training in August – I am a Reiki master, who needs to seriously buckle down and practice! I started my…
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October Journal Challenge: Something that made me smile today
I wanted this to be something meaningful, so all day, I waited. Waited for something to make me break wide with smile. No pressure, right? I had some homework to catch up on and while there were some ‘aha’ moments, and moments of realization, nothing made me smile wide. Facebook memories were cute, as were…
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October Journal Challenge: Things that went well today
In today’s age of ‘go, go, go’, it is hard to do as Ferdinand and stop and smell the flowers. We don’t always have time to enjoy the little things in our lives, or sometimes, we are blind to them, I don’t know which it is. Things that went well today… The big one was…
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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: 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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October Journal Challenge: September Wins (3)
It has been a hard year. All the plans I had laid out got sidetracked, derailed, and long ago abandoned. With it, my motivation got stomped out too. I have never hidden my battle with depression either, and while I have mostly kept my head above water throughout this year, it has not been without…
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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…
The Voices In My Head 