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So Much is New

The speed of change in our lives can be subtle and slow or it can be in-your-face and fast. As I widen my areas of interest with my studies in natural holistic nutrition (see my many posts on this), I am making many beneficial changes in my daily practices, my knowledge base, my lifestyle, our [...]

A Personal Inventory

Here it is, January 1, 2009. Another year has come and gone in the circle of life. I want to keep the good parts with me and learn from what went wrong too.

Some time today, I’m going to sit down with a large piece of paper and draw a mind map of my personal inventory [...]

The Experience of Exchanging Energy

At its simplest, life is the experience of exchanging energy with Gaia and its life forms.
Best of health, naturally,
Nina

The Hibiscus is Flowering

The hibiscus syriacus bush has been flowering since August 3 this summer. It has hundreds of buds waiting to bloom. Like the pictures?
In the heart of Vancouver’s West End, naturally,
Nina

Living Meaningfully

I’m moving into the next phase of my life, by deciding how I’m going to be in the present, rather than by wondering what I’m going to do in the future, “when I grow up.”
On Saturday, May 31, 2008, I joined nine others at a workshop entitled Between the Retirement Party and the Funeral. Catchy [...]

Complimentary circle

You know how when you’re focused on something, like yellow volkswagens or crows or traffic jams, you seem to see them everywhere? Okay, well maybe there aren’t as many volkswagens around these days as there used to be. But you know what I mean. We see what we want to see.
So, I know of this [...]

Managing e-mails

Talking about calendars, here’s a tip for managing e-mails that’s all about circles. You create 5 folders that you keep renaming and reusing. Each folder has a week’s full of e-mails that you’ve dealt with but you might want to go back to.
The best way to describe it is by example. So, last week started [...]

Calendars, for instance

Hi surfers:
Circles of life are everywhere – the seasons of the year, diurnal rhythms such as waking and sleeping, or breakfast, lunch, and dinner; the hands around a clock face – going clockwise. With digital clocks, clockwise has no meaning. Nor does anticlockwise. In a game of bridge, the dealership (what an interesting use of [...]