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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Friday Photo | Lift

Friday, October 30, 2009

“Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down,
lift your heart toward heaven like a hungry beggar,
ask that it be filled and it will be filled.”
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Flickr photo: pantheon pilaster, looking up, by antmoose
{ FRIDAY PHOTOS offer the lift of beauty }
Related viewing: Looking Up

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Keyholes

Thursday, October 29, 2009

We think we can’t see. We think we are blind. We think we are looking at something tiny and limiting and there’s nothing there.
But the world is chock full of tricks. The eye, the mind, the spirit, expand and contract depending on how we look and where we look and what we want to see.
Before [...]

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Friday Photo | Detours

Friday, October 23, 2009

“Today I am grateful for detours.”
~ aussiegall
Flickr photo: 30 Days of Gratitude – Day 22, by aussiegall,
aka Louise Docker of Looking Glass Images
{ FRIDAY PHOTOS offer the lift of beauty }
Related viewing: 32 Ways to Increase Your Income (with photo by aussiegall)

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5 Senses | Sound | Julian Treasure

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Julian Treasure is a champion for those of us who have sensitive ears and nervous systems. His short talk “The 4 Ways Sound Affects Us,” given at the 2009 TED Conference, packs a wallop of pertinent information for HSPs into less than five minutes. You can watch it below.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. Their [...]

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A Simple Way to Write

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The process of writing is a tool. It serves us, not the other way around. There’s something wrong when struggling with the writing process keeps people’s marvellous thoughts and much-needed wisdom from reaching the rest of us.
To make the writing process easier, to shift the focus from how to write to what to say, don’t [...]

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