10 minutes’ll do ya!

So, my latest health adventure is my adrenals seem to be coming back online – though in fits and starts. Mostly this means I get the adrenal rush of fight or flight response out of nowhere. An ohmyGodohmyGodohmyGod alert for no bloody reason which leaves me wound up beyond belief.

My acupuncturist has given me some homework to help alleviate this energy crashing at the gate of vitality or whatever he called it after sticking twenty needles in my ass. Continue reading »

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Day 87 – two VERY good questions

I was out to dinner with a fella a while back, he asked me a couple of very juicy questions:

Who are you?

What do you really want? Continue reading »

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Day 83 – resignation isn’t the same thing as acceptance

The idea of being stuck is rooted in the belief where you are is different than where you should be.

The definition of stupid is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Being as I just last week posted something I wrote 2 years ago on taking risks and falling flat on my face, I’m an idiot. Continue reading »

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Day 77 – Brian Eno and Piglet

aka the virtue of the small (part 2)

Brain Eno said something really mind blowing when he spoke here at the Jack Singer last winter – okay he actually said 3 hrs of mind blowing stuff, but the thing I dug so much I had to write down was his observation: sex, drugs, and religion have one thing in common – surrender. Surrender is a tough thing for us humans to do, and it takes firing off some major pleasure centres with sex or drugs to make it seem like a good idea.

The dangerous thing with religion, and maybe sex and drugs too, is what you surrender to. Continue reading »

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Day 72 – Florence Frickin’ Nightingale

This one’s for you mama….

My mom spent her working years as a nurse. A member of that noble-hearted profession of caregivers, nurturers, comforters of the ailing. My mother also has a rather warped sense of humour. To this day, if you ask her how my dad broke his toe (something that happened well over 30 years ago now), you’ll get such a fit of tear streaming breathless giggles you won’t ever really get the story, Continue reading »

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