Displaced Cave Dwellers who like Fish
I was raised in northern Ontario. I grew up participating in the annual smelt fishing run. Catching the spawning smelt was free food for the taking, and it was loads of fun. There’s nothing quite like us little chickens getting to stay up long past bedtime filling buckets to overflowing […]
Child centred education is a reasonable choice.We often forget that ‘public education’ is an institution and first and foremost it exists to meet its own needs. An institution’s priority is not any individual child. Its priority is not about your child. You need to be realistic about whether your highest goals for your child are within […]
Menopause on the conscious path is a whole re-orientation of our thinking, about women, about change, about health and how much bull shit we have bought into about how our ‘key life’ passages are a source of income for the drug-lords. I have a different view about what menopause is, and why most people would […]
“I have one nerve left, and you are getting on it”
This was a notice on a friend’s wall. She was an unusually laid back person, but I think she was letting her family know that even the easy-going have limits.
What actually happens when we reach our limit?
Our nervous system can be viewed as our electrical system
The nervous […]
Heads up boys and girls… this is personal. I have been getting some lessons for the last couple of years from a four-footed-horse friend who has been teaching me about herd-life, leadership and energy communication.
Mr. Face is a cheeky little gelding who has no trouble showing me my many shortcomings.
If I do not measure up […]
Everyone finds themselves feeling down from time to time
Usually this is a temporary state that can be changed by taking a walk in nature or by listening to music that uplifts. Some quality time spent with a trusted friend can click us out of a funk.
If you find yourself always defaulting to an unhappy state […]
