you never truly know someone

Sunday, 7 March 2010, 23:42 | Category : meditation
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all we have are our perceptions. our very flawed, biased, opinionated, experiential based perceptions. and despite the fact that a person can be standing right in front of us, we may never move past our inner perceptions to ever really truly know someone.
sometimes i wonder if it is even possible.

Feeling Different

Thursday, 4 March 2010, 12:40 | Category : personal growth
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Today, I’m in a training to help local clinicians become more competent in the field of Adoption. While I don’t do therapy per se, my degree is clinical – and while my role is less clinical than a therapist’s, I do find myself considering clinical issues and the impact adoption has not only on the [...]

the power of thought…

Wednesday, 3 March 2010, 0:12 | Category : random thoughts
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I’ve had a theory about thoughts and intention that has been brewing around in my little noggin lately.  It has been building slowly, accumulating from snippets of religion, quantum physics, and the writings of Don Miguel Ruiz & Eckhart Tolle.  Toss in a little sprig of personal experience and we’ve got a whole tree forming [...]

Finishing Proust

Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 1:33 | Category : proust
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I started the Proust questionnaire a few months ago and never got around to finishing it.
I’m going to finish off the answers in this post (thus, bringing an end to the project … for now).
What is your favorite occupation?
Currently, I work in foster care adoptions and am an instructor for the Human Services department at [...]

Releasing & Singing

Sunday, 28 February 2010, 18:39 | Category : personal growth
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I sang last night.
It was a little after 3am in the Rec Hall at Camp and most everyone else had gone to bed. There were a small handful of us left, enjoying the fire in the fireplace and feeling the effects of the hour and the amounts of alcohol and food consumed.
The owner put on [...]