I had the pleasure of spending about two hours with Murray, the owner of a towing company. My van got a flat on the way home. In the not-quite-middle of nowhere. And now, before you get all "Geez woman! Can't you change a flat?" and go all judgy... The spare tire ...
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What songs get you going? What ones help pull you out of a funk? What songs make you feel like you can take on the world? That you ARE f*ckin' perfect? Here are some of the songs that make my cut. Some are because they are kick ass. Some because even though ...
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As part of Stratford Festival's "tweet team" I get to see their productions throughout the season. I know! Lucky me. (Not so lucky husband. His response: "One ticket, eh?" Cue stink-eye.) As always, my views are my own and are not swayed by the fact I didn't pay to be ...
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June 6th's prompt was this: Next to resistance, rational thought is the artist or entrepreneur's worst enemy. Bad things happen when we employ rational thought, because rational thought comes from the ego. Instead, we want to work from the self, that is, from instinct and intuition, from the unconscious. A child has ...
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This week there were lots of things that tickled me. If you follow me on twitter (@jackiyo) or interact with me on facebook you may have seen some of them already. I thought I'd compile them here, too. These are things that made me smile in the past week. There were ...
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The Day 9 ( June 8 ) prompt in the #trust30 writing challenge was this: "The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts ...
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I just got home from my third Ignite Waterloo event. And I loved it. Again. I'll be going to the next one (schedule willing!). Why? What is it? From the Ignite Waterloo website: Ignite! Waterloo is a community-driven event that captures the best of Waterloo Region’s geek culture in a series of ...
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What am I doing today to be my genuine self? What am I doing today that doesn't follow the "shoulds" of my life? Am I conforming or truly being my genuine self? Big questions. Tough answers. At least for me. These are the answers I came up with today. Right now I am sitting outside on ...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Q99r6pAXI What's the buzz? Tell me what's happening. The buzz is Jesus Christ Superstar and it's happening at Stratford Shakespeare Festival this season. I know. One would think a show where they sing pretty much every single syllable could get tedious, but na-uh. This is a fantastic production of a fabulous musical. The set ...
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Some days I think, "Yay humanity! We've evolved further than chickens!" Then some days I lower my head and realize, nope. We are no better than chickens. Have you ever heard the term "pecking order"? There's a reason for that saying. Chickens pick on the ones they deem different or weak - ...
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