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How To Change Your Perspective
Desert Flowers – Colleen Friesen “To the desert go prophets and hermits; through desert go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual...
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Retreats and Resources for Mindfulness
“It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn’t depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn’t depend on...
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Let the Beauty We Love
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” - Rumi - I have been on the lookout for my passion all my life. We seem to have this collective...
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How to Have a Successful Blog
I love it here – Colleen Friesen This Thursday I will be speaking to about a dozen students from the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. False Creek Gold – Colleen Friesen Poor...
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If You Liked That You’re Gonna Love This
“I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.” - Groucho Marx Hugo Leclerc Sharing a Joke with the Laughing Buddha – Colleen Friesen Every time I travel, I am struck anew...
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Why Not?
Dad & Me Before my father descended into depression and dementia, he was a positive can-do kind of guy. His optimism was off-the-chart…some might say it bordered on denial. But then again, what...
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Hold On
“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.” ― Shaun Hick It has been just over a year since Kathleen’s diagnosis and subsequent...
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Sisterhood of the World Bloggers
Last week, Destinations and Dreams blogger, Donna Janke, kindly included my blog on a lovely list for the Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award. I was truly honoured to be included with some...
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How To Make The Day Last
“The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes Montana Field Once upon a time in a land not so far from here, I was...
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Sarajevo Roses
Sarajevo Rose – Colleen Friesen I keep finding myself caught in the details of it all. I try to imagine what it would have been like. I think about turning on taps and having no water. Or what it...
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Wild and Precious
Passion has become the word du jour in our culture. We’re all supposed to wake up screamingly happy and driven with passion-filled purpose. Quite frankly, it sounds exhausting. I kind of like my...
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Smart Ladies In Ottawa
Smart Ladies – Mary Ediger, Kathleen O’Hara & Colleen Friesen Once upon a time there were three friends named Kathleen, Mary & Colleen. You’d think this was a start of a good Irish joke,...
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Women Are Half the World
Queen Elizabeth – Colleen Friesen I have returned from Ottawa. While there, I toured Canada’s Parliament and looked at the endless paintings of all the past prime ministers; white men all, each in...
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Mexico’s Soundtrack
7:00 a.m. The silence is thick as the sky lights up orange in the east. All of Chapala seems to be asleep. The day begins with the birds. They tweet and chirp like stars blinking to life,...
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Writing Retreat 101
This was a big mistake. I remember arriving on that first night, climbing the steps into the dark second-floor apartment, walking into the hollow sound of the bedroom and knowing that I’d really...
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Create or Consume?
“Thanks to my work everything’s going well.” – Claude Monet It started on Davie Street. I was on my way to the Canada Line but I thought I’d pop into Cross Decor & Design for inspiration....
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Acts of Creation – A New Year
I made a list. And checked it twice. Then, I started. First, I dragged all the wrapping paper, gift bags, to-and-from tags, ribbons and bows and twinkly lights back down into the storage locker....
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Lessons From the Road Ahead
You’ve Got Mail! – Colleen Friesen On a long driving day, there comes a point in the late afternoon…say around five or six-ish. Maybe we’re both a little hungry, maybe we’re both thinking that we...
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Reflections on Living Small
Sunset Reflections – Colleen Friesen It has been almost a month (or roughly 3700 kms) since we finished packing up our apartment and began our RPod odyssey. We have gone down the Washington and...
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