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A Terrible Case of the What if

A Terrible Case of the What if
Last night, while I lay thinking here, some What ifs crawled inside my ear and pranced and partied all night long and sang their same old What-if song: What if I'm dumb in school? What if they've closed the swimming pool? What if I get beat up? What if there's poison in my cup? What if I start to cry? What if…
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45 Things to Live Well (26-30)

45 Things to Live Well (26-30)
It has been said there are three ways to gain wisdom; 1) By reflection and thought, 2) From watching and learning from others and 3) By personal experience.  The first two are perhaps the most expedient but if you are like me, sometimes you have to learn the hard way by experiencing it first hand.…
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Before You Speak

Before You Speak
Have you ever been in a situation where you keep putting your foot in your mouth?  Not literally, but when the words coming out of your mouth don’t come out the way you intended and seem silly, stupid or even insulting?  I know I have had seasons in my life where I felt the only…
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45 Things to Live Well (20-25)

45 Things to Live Well (20-25)
They say the best revenge is living well and while I don't advocate revenge, I do encourage people to live well, to live fully. This is another instalment of the 45 Things we can do to live well!     Living well, not being hung up on the petty things of life can help us live more…
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45 Things to Live Well (16-20)

45 Things to Live Well (16-20)
We continue with our 45 things we can do to live well and this installment is good ol' fashioned horse sense.  Ever wonder how cliches came to be?  I think cliche' are great "suitcase" sayings that are a simple way of expressing a bit of wisdom that has been found to be helpful through the…
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45 Things to Live Well (11-15)

45 Things to Live Well (11-15)
We continue on with 45 simple things to help us live a deeper, more authentic life!  Again, don't feel like you need to employ every suggestion - just pick a couple that seem to resonate with you.  The adventure is to reflect and learn about yourself and take a series of deliberate step towards being the most…
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45 Things to Live Well (6-10)

45 Things to Live Well (6-10)
We continue with our 45 simple things to live well.  While not an exhaustive list, these are good ways to start to remove clutter by letting somethings go and diving into others. Lets not lose sight that the goal of this journey is to become more authentic, more whole - more w-holy.   Living well…
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45 Things to Make Life Easier (1-5)

45 Things to Make Life Easier (1-5)
We have gathered a few interesting tidbits of simple things that can go along way to help make life a little easier. Remember, a few small changes over time can have a big impact on enriching the quality of your life.   Allow small changes to be intergrated into your natural rhythm of life -…
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An Uncommon Grace

An Uncommon Grace
  The following is a scene from Les Miserables (1998) starring Liam Neeson.  In this clip we see an encounter between Neeson's character Jean Valjean and a Bishop (Peter Vaughan).     Today, I can identify with Jean Valjean.  A person who sometimes feels there is just no other way or just simply doesn't have…
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Check your Luggage!

Check your Luggage!
As a family, we enjoy road trips.  We like adventuring out to a Kite festival or a vacation destination or just to tour the back-water places of western Canada and the United States.  They are wonderful adventures and along with discovering a lot of interesting things (like carpolite a.k.a petrified dinosaur poo!)  and people, we…
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