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Entries Tagged as 'my world'

retirement goal: become a Child Who Knows

April 20th, 2010 · No Comments · for fun, my world, remembery

“But the adult is not the highest stage of development. The end of the cycle is that of the independent, clear-minded, all-seeing Child. That is the level known as wisdom. When the Tao te Ching and other wise books say things like, ‘Return to the beginning; become a child again’ that’s what they are referring [...]

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Retiring!

April 19th, 2010 · No Comments · for fun, my world

I’m retiring! Again, that is. I’ve had 8 careers and loved every one of them. I’m retiring from my freelance copy editing business, which I’ve had on the go since 1987. You know you should retire when you’re driving along in your convertible, sunny day, top down, and find yourself hoping there’s no new work [...]

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10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy

April 9th, 2010 · No Comments · for fun, my world

via yesmagazine.org Click the image to read the full article. Posted via web from prePosterous

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which blogging platform?

April 4th, 2010 · No Comments · my world, whatever

Help! I need some feedback: WordPress or Blogger or Posterous???? I think I might start blogging regularly again. I enjoyed creating my recent travelogue blog and I also enjoyed the feedback. So I’ve begun weighing which blogging platform to use regularly. I have blogger.com blogs, a wordpress blog, and a posterous blog. I like them [...]

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sundog at sunset

April 27th, 2009 · No Comments · my world, photos

It’s been decades since I’ve seen a sundog. I remember seeing them all the time when I lived on the prairies. Last night at sunset there was a huge rainbow-colored sundog:

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a piece of my past

April 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · my world

What a blast! I’m in the process of retiring from my Educators’ Resources blog. So that the resources aren’t lost to my subscribers and site visitors, I’m passing the whole blog on to a colleague, Sylvia Currie. Sylvia’s first post to the blog reviews a bit of our history. I had forgotten all the details [...]

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cool things on my deck

April 21st, 2009 · No Comments · my world, photos

Spring on our skydeck. Sunshine comes and stays. Camera comes out. Nothing much to shoot on the deck, but I do find that everything out there creates an interesting pattern. Well, ok, just any excuse to snap a photo. See the rest of my photos in my prePosterous blog gallery

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BC hummingbirds up close

April 15th, 2009 · No Comments · my world, videos

I just found this bird video site. Hummingbirds are one of my favorites. This video features a group “that have been getting fed and returning to this location on a regular basis for over thirty years” near BC Ferries’ Saltery Bay terminal. Here’s the link to the original site if you can’t see the video [...]

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