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Cranium Sanctum

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

What do you allow and what do you suppress in the privacy of your own mind? Does the habit of limiting and restricting input – light, sound, chaos, profusions, and multiplicities – extend to keeping your own thoughts at bay?
We are unobserved inside our own minds.
What if, in the pure privacy of your mind, you [...]

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Growth Spurt Management

Monday, March 29, 2010

I’m going through a growth spurt. It’s messy and unpleasant. I wobble without cease. My foundation keeps shifting.
Not that I’m knocking growth spurts. No, indeed. A hefty growth spurt, one that knocks the pins out from underneath to make way for a stronger platform to jump from, often does the heavy lifting required to get [...]

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How to Keep a Friend

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Start with the first step. Proceed.

Make a new friend.
Spend time together.
Be your true self, especially when it’s difficult.
Disagree.
Let them go.
Figure out how to soothe yourself.
Welcome them back.
Willingly fall further into friendship’s gooey centre.
Copy what you envy.
Forget who’s who.
Draw a line.
Notice recurring border skirmishes.
Learn about yourself.
Draw a different line, one that includes all of you.
Do your [...]

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Let’s Cerebrate!

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

If socializing in a party setting doesn’t come easily to you, you still have options other than staying home – options which include being yourself.
To cerebrate means to use the mind, to think or to think about. Rather than psyching yourself up to be a party animal, consider musing your way through the festivities.
You may [...]

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How to Create Space

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Toss out the unloved and unused
Don’t finish
Put up a temporary wall
Say “I don’t know”
Loosen your grip
Don’t tell anyone where you’re going
Let them talk
Clear the decks
Hire help
Excuse yourself and leave
Expand your view
Put down the sword
Go where you can be anonymous
Wing it
Don’t equate alone with lonely
Eat less
Say “Oh, never mind”
Let go of your secrets
Sit alone in a [...]

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