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September 27, 2011

 This week, Seth Godin wrote that: In revolutionary times, it’s tempting to work to get things back to the way they were. 2011 is my Year of the Wild Things: facing forward and making significant geographic, work, relationship, and intrapersonal shifts and moving through the process of opening up to the new while sorting and moving [...]

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the last 24 hours

August 2, 2011

I am lucky to have adoring and adorable friends and family who make me feel like a sun-ripened berry of love: juicy and full and warm and delicious. I am also fortunate, that while these dearly beloved’s live scattered across this beautiful world, to be able to travel and see them, and them to me. [...]

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it’s a scorcher!

July 21, 2011

The last few days in most of Ontario have been wildly hot and the hot hot heat has broken only for even wilder stormy weather: high winds, heavy rain, lightening and thunder. During this time of year there are often forest fires in Northern Ontario, and while spending a couple of days at the family [...]

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busy(ness)

July 13, 2011

My brain is so busy lately. Part of it is that I have trekked back to Ontario for the month of July, which has a lot of moving components and routine has been hard to come by. The other (bigger and badder) part is that a lot of really wonderful things have been happening over [...]

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it’s all groovy

July 8, 2011

My goodness, summer is here! This week that means: afternoons at the beach, family gatherings, weekends at the cottage, barefoot meandering and a whole lotta frolicking! Of course, the frolicking includes dancing and here is what I am grooving-up-a-storm to:   Oh, the double-shot of Noah and the Whale just makes me so very happy. [...]

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happy canada day!

July 1, 2011

Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadians! To honour the holiday, I am reaching into the archives and recalling this post from December: one of my favourite truly Canadian moments from the last year, written in Banff, Alberta near the end of my cross-country road trip. Slowed waaay down today and ended the afternoon in Banff, [...]

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intentional kindness – update

June 30, 2011

  Yesterday, I put out a (not-so) little challenge to be purposefully nice. I have been noticing how lovely and kind and generous we all can be with other people and what a shame it is that our relationships with ourselves are not underlined by those same rules. You know, the rules about connection, care, [...]

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crooked little house

June 28, 2011

I am thinking of painting this little house on the hillside. It is so cute and crooked: I can imagine all manner of shenanagans and magic that are created up there. Or maybe it just reminds me of the nursery rhyme: There was a crooked little man with a crooked little smile… Whatever the inspiration, [...]

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’round here

June 22, 2011

  There have been some pretty cool things going on around here, and it’s been a bit like trying to hold on to the reigns of a herd of wild horses. But as the very wise Laura McGrath reminded me this week: “Life isn’t a business to be managed; it’s a mystery to be lived.” [...]

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me + the wild things

June 14, 2011

  This wild-thing year is definitely living up to expectations. It has been wild in ways that were unpredictable, but glorious, painful, delicious, freeing and heartwarming. I am starting to understand: that is the way of the wild thing. I am learning things that I very much needed to, even if they are not the [...]

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