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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Multilingualism for HSPs

Monday, September 29, 2008

I’ve been learning German for years and dabble in French now and again. These forays into learning another language make my life richer than I could ever have imagined, not only because of the thrill of the skill or the insight into another culture that only learning their language can provide, but because of the [...]

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Collage Vision Boards

Friday, September 26, 2008

In certain self-actualization circles, vision boards have been all the rage for a while, and stories abound documenting their effectiveness. Take or leave the hype, but the concept can be tailored to whatever suits. For instance, for my own pleasure and delight, I started a series of collages a while back that depict, in detail, [...]

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Play Anyway

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?”
~ Satchel Paige

Play anyway. Play even if no one approves. Create without purpose. Experiment. Make mistakes. Make nonsense. Make more mistakes. Forget finesse. Lose track of time. Delve. Turn off the editor. Play hooky. Become one with something larger. Jettison pretence. Discover. Forego [...]

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Good News

Monday, September 22, 2008

“Humans were never designed to act as receiver sets for the bad news from around the entire planet.”
~ Christiane Northrup

Like other highly sensitive people I know, I’ve never been able to listen to or watch regular news broadcasts because they generally focus on what’s wrong, or awful, or tragic at the moment. Rather than waiting [...]

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The Link Between Mess and Abundance

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Have you ever had the experience of finally tackling a long-overdue clean-up project – like updating your filing system or giving the garage a thorough shakedown – and afterward noticing a greater measure of bounty coming into your life? Apparently, nature does abhor a vacuum, and creating orderly space, whether of the inner or outer [...]

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