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Love, Life and Authenticity
Authenticity gives you license to love without the recoil of mind. and/or Love gives you the authenticity to live without recoil of the spirit. ’nuff said & goodnight.
read moreTrains of Conscious, Jettison Baggage
I live next to the train tracks. When my husband and I first moved here just over a year ago, they each manifested as trains of consciousness: the screech of steel rims spinning over gritty tracks tore my focus away for a short ride. But I began to adjust to the rhythm, and now the trains are just a blur moving across the periphery of awareness. My life has changed over the past year, significantly, and by the power of my intention. The challenges and choices have all occurred in the present, under the control of my breath’s capacity....
read moreMy Lens on Life at Age 32
These questions are in response to a post on Brave New Traveler, asking readers to chronicle their current spiritual beliefs. The great thing about drawing a line in the sand is that it will inevitably be eroded away. This excercise allowed me to take a snapshot of where my view on the world, universe, spirit and humanity currently sit. I’m thinking I’ll wait 5 years and answer them again. For the time being, this is my soft stance! Why is there poverty and suffering in the world? This will sound apathetic: but I believe that it...
read moreOvercoming Fear: How I Quit My Job
Yesterday was the last day at my job of Vice President of Information Technology in a company that I co-founded, and have helped build over the last ten years. I don’t have an offer from another technology company, I’m not looking to make a lateral shift. I have decided to profoundly change what I do day to day, to bring it in line with where my passions, creativity, and energy are centered from. It wasn’t that one day I cleaned my ears with a Q-Tip and suddenly it was clear; the ingredients of change intermingled slowly....
read moreInspiration is Comparison Turned Outside-in
It’s now day 26 of the 40 day yoga challenge. Today I took my first rest day after 8 days of yoga. That marks the longest stretch of consecutive days I’ve ever practiced, but I’m aware by what short a time that really is. Even so, I’m etching a notch on the peg so I can look back next year and recognize change. I did intend to go to a Yin/meditation class tonight. It didn’t happen. I empathize with good excuses, especially my own. I was driving home from visiting my husband’s parents, and I had no food in...
read moreYoga and Eating Disorders – Recovery from the Anti-Identity
In grade nine my class went on a week-long retreat to a camp near Vancouver. One night, our teachers had us participate in a personality assessment. It was presented to us as a fun activity of self discovery, and I honestly believe they naively meant it as nothing more than that. Each of us filled out the multiple choice questionnaire. After tallying our results we were physically separated in four quadrants representing combinations of introverted vs. extroverted and global vs. analytical traits. In our segregated groups we stared or shouted...
read moreWhite Chocolate, Cranberry and Pistachio Cookies
These cookies just came out of the oven …. they are a first time experiment and I’m freaking out at how tasty they are! The cranberry adds a wicked zing, the white chocolate gives them a cheesecake-ish flavor and the pistachios go crunch! The inspiration came from leftover ingredients from this turkey roast recipe. Here’s the breakdown Wet ingredients: 3/4 cup butter (salted) 1 cup brown sugar (beat to buttercream) 1 large egg (beat in) 1 tsp vanilla (beat in) 1/4 cup yogurt (stir in) Dry ingredients: 1 1/2 cups white flour 1...
read moreGuack? Oh yeah Guacamole
Guacamole is pretty forgiving, but there’s a few key elements that I can get preachy about: don’t mash the sh$t out of the avocados – a little chunky texture is nice lotsa lime skip the sour cream / mayo / etc… avocados are wonderfully creamy on their own! The Goods 2 large avocados, as ripe as you can get them, cubed* 1/3 cup fine chopped red onion juice of one big juicy lime 1/2 tsp salt dash of chipolte powder (not a requirement but adds a nice smokey backdrop) fresh chopped cilantro, to taste With a fork, gently...
read moreInner Peace from What You Teach
Photo by: alfarman looking up By day, I am a software developer, and I really enjoy it. I’m a problem solver, a systems-thinker, and I get to exercise this talent continuously. If I were to take a career aptitude test, I’m pretty sure that I’ve followed their recommendations to a tee. It fits my personality, my brain is wired this way. But something in me is off kilter. Like so many others, I’ve learned that I’m prone to chronic stress. I spent my twenties living in it, sometimes feeding off it as a source of...
read moreTurkey Roast with Cranberry, Pistachio and Goat Cheese
I cooked a turkey roast instead of a whole turkey to simplify the prep and cleanup… admittedly I’ve never shoved a whole bird in the oven so maybe I’m just avoiding that experiment. In any case, the dinner turned out beautifully, and the cleanup was minimal. If you haven’t cooked one of these before, it’s basically turkey breasts tightly bound in string, in the shape of a roast. I originally wanted to stuff the turkey breast with the “topping”. But the turkey was so perfectly bound together, I...
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