• Being The Gardener

    “Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze

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  • Living the Question

    The first week of the New Year has just ended. Since January 1, I’ve noticed people diligently writing in journals at my local coffee shop and others reading books with titles like “A New Year,

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  • Warrior for a Week

    When I was a kid, no one that I knew ran for health, no parent went to the gym, and there were certainly no yoga classes. Add to that, people were allowed to smoke inside!

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  • You Did It! Now What?

    Recently, a friend of mine completed an arduous two-year Masters degree, made even more difficult by the fact that for a huge chunk of it, her partner needed to work out of province. My friend,

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  • The Grace in Receiving

      Recently, a friend and I had a great idea. Both of us had projects, close to our hearts, that had been on the back burner for a while. We were feeling stymied in our

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  • Living the Love

    Recently a dear friend, who also happens to be a cloistered nun, wrote me this: “Live the love, not the problem.” This was after a particularly heavy rain in New Brunswick, which caused a terrible

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  • Listening for the Quiet Voice

    One of my favourite things to write about these days is that crazy-ass “inner critic” voice that lives inside our heads. You know, the one that says you’re not “enough” of anything? You’re not smart

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  • Going Nowhere

    “Don’t Just Do Something. Sit There.” — Sylvia Boorstein The Art of Stillness by Pico Iyer is the second of the new TED books. This beautiful series of essays, written by an esteemed travel writer, is

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  • The Nature of Truth

    How many times a day do you stop yourself from doing or saying something because you’re afraid of what someone else will think? If you actually take this question seriously and start noticing, I would

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