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Post #2023: Thoughts on what brings happiness

Here are the things which bring me the greatest happiness these days: time spent with my partner meditation making things – knitting and crochet at the moment time spent with friends and family lifting heavy weights at the gym and zumba classes picking blueberries… Continue Reading “Post #2023: Thoughts on what brings happiness”

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Post #2019: Another weekend away.

Outdoor feasting is one of my favourite things about summer – the picture above was taken last week at a dinner with people who I graduated from my Master’s program with on the enclosed back deck of one of our dear compatriots. A set… Continue Reading “Post #2019: Another weekend away.”

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Post #2017: Taking refuge in sangha

My meditation tracker tells me that today marks fifty days in a row that I have sat in meditation – and I can attest that there was no cheating either: I sat in meditation for twenty to sixty minutes first thing in the morning on… Continue Reading “Post #2017: Taking refuge in sangha”

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Post #2016: Twenty-five years between one grad and another.

My step-daughter M. graduated from high school yesterday, which coincidentally was also the day that I was supposed to graduate from my Master’s program (scheduling conflicts mean that I will convocate in the fall instead). I surprised myself by feeling both overwhelming proud of… Continue Reading “Post #2016: Twenty-five years between one grad and another.”

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Post #2012: All up in your stars….

I’m back from Ottawa after a week of work there, and have a touch of the obligatory airplane cold to prove it…. but at least it’s Friday and despite my little sniffles, I will end this day in my backyard with a beer in… Continue Reading “Post #2012: All up in your stars….”

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