Reading Annie Dillard’s “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” and “The Writing Life” have been epiphanies and deep hard lessons in the way of words. There have also been eye opening revelations of how little we really see through these two eyes of ours.
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Holy Peachy Guacamole!
My favorite thing about southern California is not celebrities, or the weather, nor is it surfer boys, skateboard dogs, or even Urth’s sustainable shade-grown organic fair-trade coffee. No, my absolute favorite thing about southern California is the magnificent avocado. Creamy … dreamy … avocados!
Failing
How do we deal with people who are addicted? I see the effects of addiction around me daily. Sometimes it’s the lethargy and apathy of chronic pot smokers. Sometimes it’s the erratic, unpredictable behavior of drinkers and sometimes it’s the empty hollow zombie look of someone who’s smoking crack. While they present differently, they all have costs.
Books of Life
Electronic publishing is a great boon to certain sections of the publishing industry, and to the public. Catalogs and telephone directories need constant updating. Real-time text-based news feeds with internal links put a wealth of information at a person’s fingertips. Specialized articles generated outside of Academe, which would even a few decades ago have remained in manuscript, unread and unnoticed, can reach a wide audience through the Internet.
There are problems, however, with relying on an essentially ephemeral medium to be the repository of timeless knowledge.
Minute to Freedom #26: Being Self Critical
Today let’s talk about being self critical. Has it ever felt like you were being too critical of yourself? That whatever you did, it wasn’t good enough?
Native Art
Is native art the Indian on the horse looking out into the majestic? Does the stereotype follow us, so that the classification of native art consists only of eagles, medicine wheels, buffalo, and feathers?
To be Loved — Part 2
Mumbai, the city of dreams, draws thousands of rural Nepali villagers every year to the already overcrowded streets with rumours of well paying jobs, hospitals and schools. These rumours travel on the backs of distant relatives and friends who send back stories of their success, whether true or not, luring families with bright hopes and dreams.
Bad Dog – Handling Problem Behaviours
Dog trainers can, and frequently do, debate which techniques for teaching a dog to do a specific behaviour is the most effective. There is some flexibility in how we teach our dogs to do something new. But what about those cases where our dog is doing something we don’t want them to do? What training methods or techniques are available for dealing with those cases and how do we choose?
Minute to Freedom # 25: Honor the Intuition
Have you ever felt like your gut is telling you something is wrong, but others are saying “No, everything’s fine,” and you find it all very confusing?
The Wind In My Hair – Or Is It A Hurricane?
Why do people get so upset about hair? For some reason the growing, cutting, styling and covering of this matter results in judgement and discrimination. Hair has to be controlled!
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