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No One Can Make You Healthy
No One Can Make You Healthy
Hello my lovely, lovely readers! It has been a hot (record-breaking hot!) July over here in Taipei. It has also been the first month, since January, that things have relaxed around the COVID-19 situation and weâve all been allowed to travel (domestically, of course) and socialize. Itâs been pretty grand. Snorkelling, lunches, camping, you name it. Reconnecting with friends who I hadnât seen inâŚ
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Something About Crystals
âHey, random question. Do you use crystals, or know anything about crystals?â
One of my very best friends asked me this question this afternoon, just as I happened to be returning home from a crystal-shopping mission across town. Weâve known each other for the better part of thirty years, and know A LOT about each other and each otherâs lives. So when someone who knows me that wellis asking meâŚ
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What if Work Gets to be Easy?
What if work gets to be easy? What if we have this whole entire concept of work totally and utterly backwards? Why do we believe that work has to be something to push for, a time for struggle and hardness to bear through, just to get by, to make a living?
What if work gets to be easy? What if the work we do flows through us as naturally as a mountain stream flows through the forest? What if workâŚ
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Ocean Spirit
Here we sit, Gazing at the sea. The tide meets the turmoil Deep inside of me.
High tide at Longdong Bay, Taiwan. June 25, 2020
Let the water wash away All the pains of the world, Let the pains slip away From petals now unfurled.
As your heart expands, Let it open, let it go. All the hurt that you once had, All the worries that you know.
For here, our hearts are waiting, Where the land meets theâŚ
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On Self-Love, and the Dissipation of Fear and Separation
Letâs be real, I believe in deeply and talk a good talk about living honestly and following your dreams and doing what youâre best at and enjoy doing. But when it comes down to it, Iâm freaking terrified. Iâm so, so scared to share what I know, what I see in meditation, and some of the messages and âknowingsâ that come through me.
Because I feel this deep need to be proven, or to prove, toâŚ
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Summer, Solstice, Solar Eclipse
Summer, Solstice, Solar Eclipse
So I said Iâd write a blog a day for Gemini season, and here we are! June 20, 2020 is the end of Gemini season, with tomorrow, the 21st, marking ĺ¤čł summer solstice here in Taiwan. Strangely, Dragon Boat Festival isnât until a few days later, but there we are. Or here summer is, or something. It is blazing hot already! Here, itâs typical that the worst of the heat holds off until after Dragon BoatâŚ
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From Karaoke to Conferences
From Karaoke to Conferences
When I was eleven years old, I sang a Backstreet Boys song, karaoke style, in front of about one or two thousand people. This in itself is remarkable; what made it even more notable, is that the person in charge of music had accidentally played the same song for the previous group, who went along with it anyway (after all, who didnât know Backstreet in the â90s?)⌠so me and my little group ofâŚ
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Thursday Night Wishes
A short blessing for you this evening, since itâs late in the day and I didnât set aside time to write earlier!
May you be happy
May you be at peace
May you be healthy
May you live with ease
I took this picture of a dog wandering along the road in Yilan a few years ago. In the background is a vibrant green rice paddy, with a farmer toiling away. Life seems so simple in this moment.
I donâtâŚ
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What Would You Do, If You Could Do Anything?
What Would You Do, If You Could Do Anything?
When I ask people what their hobbies are, sometimes⌠they have no answers. âUhh, sleep, I guess.â But you know thatâs not the answer. Deep down, you know. So I ask again:
If you had ALL the time and ALL the money in the world, and didnât have to worry about your job, where would you go? What would you do?
Now usually they kind of giggle. Thereâs often more of an answer ready and waiting toâŚ
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Globalization, Research, and Shopping Local
Globalization, Research, and Shopping Local
The ubiquitous Taiwan flip-flops⌠in magnet form
Thereâs something to be said for cultural adaption. Moving to a foreign country, we miss some creature comforts, like the same brands of food, or even pens! Most things are easy enough to get in this globalized world we live in now, though. Taiwan in particular has a much larger variety of international foods than it did even five or ten yearsâŚ
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Define Success.
Success is something I never thought I cared for. I didnât ever feel particularly motivated by money, or to âclimb the ladderâ or to âjoin in the rat race.â Perhaps it was growing up on a hippie island, or having 90âs media examples of so-called successful people looking so miserable, or a combination of both. Whatever it was, I did not think I wanted to âbe successful.â
However, educationâŚ
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In Absentia
Do you ever notice something, only when itâs gone? That happened for me, in the presence (or absence, really) of chronic pain.
When I was only six years old, my knees hurt really badly. I wasnât allowed to participate in the annual Terry Fox Runbecause of it. In that moment, so, so badly wanting to be âpart ofâ something, I was taught that I was too sick. Yet, there was no explanation. Just,âŚ
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Integrity
Gazing into the river of life, what do you see? Rushing waters, or a calm flow?
Gaze inwards. Do you see obstacles here, or inner calm?
Stop reaching for higher heights. Even the tallest tree will break if it stands alone.
Instead, reach inwards. Seek to calm the rapids in your heart, and in turn calm the waters flowing through and around you.
I know I have a lot to learn from nature.âŚ
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It's Time for Self-Care
Itâs Time for Self-Care
Thereâs a lot going on in the world right now. A lot. Big things, things that wonât just go away no matter how much we try to just look the other way, bury our heads in the sand, and ignore them. These things will keep on happening, and itâs up to us to step up and be part of the solution.
One thing though⌠some of us LOVE to help others! More than we love to help ourselves. Does this soundâŚ
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Transported
A Written Meditation of Sorts
Take a deep breath, and on the exhale, see with your mindâs eye. Let yourself be transported here, as you open your eyes on this little island I call home. No, not tropical. This is an island in the Pacific Northwest, off the coast of Vancouver Island. Tall, ancient Douglas Fir trees tower above you, their boughs creaking softly in the wind.
A raven caws, andâŚ
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Divine Logic?
This Gemini season, I have committed to sharing more of my views and stories. A little something every day. Todayâs story comes from my âdark night of the soul,â not that I had heard of such a thing at the time. Itâs certainly not something anyone should desire or aspire to, to n my opinion. And yet, itâs a big chunk of how life shaped me into who I am today, so embrace it I must.
We will notâŚ
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Let Your Creativity Shine
Let Your Creativity Shine
You can wait, delay, paralyze yourself, or reduce your creativity almost to nothing. But you cannot abolish it.
A Course In Miracles
I used to think I wasnât creative, because I wasnât magically talented at art, or music. For some reason I thought, as a kid, that if I wasnât alreadygood at something, then I just wasnât good at it. Somewhere along the lines of Life School, I missed the day whereâŚ
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