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if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!welcome to the february 28, 2007 edition of carnival of eating disorders. this time around, the majority of our entries are about body image. i particularly like audrey hepburn’s beauty tips - a bit corny, perhaps, but […]

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today i’m on the run. too many things happening, including helping my very pregnant daughter move (yes! i’m becoming a grandmother! more on that soon.)
so let’s turn this problem into an opportunity and see how you, gentle reader, like it when i just present you with my notes.
it’s a continuation from last […]

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i’m still digesting the great fare at the northern voice blogging conference. as you may have gleaned already, one of my favourites there was nancy white.
in talking about how we interact with one another, on and offline, she said something that left a lasting impression on me:
“everyone is a designer!”
what does that mean?
let’s start […]

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conversations are at the heart of my practice. conversations are what i was hoping for when i first started this blog. conversations was one of the topics at this year’s northern voice blogging conference - i facilitated a little presentation about it at moosecamp (the first day’s unconference) in connection with the vancouver […]

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here in vancouver, the courts are finally dealing with willy pickton, accused of murdering dozens of women.
these were women with friends, family, children. women who laughed and told stories and wrote christmas cards.
i personally met two of them. they were also people who were addicted to drugs. they were poor. many […]

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a poem written in the early 1990’s, at a time of being very ungrounded and spaced out:
oh body, bloodfilled one,
redeem my soul
redeem my burning, ashen soul
please turn me inside out
rescue me, body, from my thoughts.
please, hands, please, wake me up
let me fall prey to sensing
sharper glass and harder stone
and warmer skin and water wet as […]

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addiction is pretty hard to understand if you’ve never been there. the crazed lust, the desperate longing for whatever it is that your are hooked on – from heroin to alcohol to overworking to shopping to sex to codependency – whatever it is, if it’s not your thing then all you can do is […]

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research on obesity is really going places these days. a little while ago, i reported on the discovery of an obesity virus and an obesity molecule.
now, feifan guo and douglas cavener, two biologists at penn state university, have discovered an enzyme with the weighty name of GCN2 eIF2alpha kinase (let’s call it GAK, shall […]

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when people talk about confessions of a shopaholic, the new york times bestseller by sophie kinsella, they usually smile benevolently at her shopping antics, they’ll tell you how hilarious the book is: what a great piece of chicklit!
i’m gonna take a different tack here.
this book is a very clear description of the life of any […]

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are you attracted to the law of attraction? everyone seems to be talking about the movie the secret lately, and the law of attraction. are you one of them? if so, i wonder whether you’d like to

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valentine’s day, similar to groundhog day, the celtic imbolc and the carnival festivities in western europe, is a celebration that heralds the slowly awakening forces of spring. it’s still cold and nasty outside but we can all feel that stirring deep down, we all know that the seeds in the ground are starting to […]

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love in a dark time is an extraordinarily well written collection of essays by irish (and gay) writer colm toibin. it chronicles the romantic and artistic struggles of gay artists, from genius writer/playwright/poet oscar wilde to spanish filmmaker pedro almodovar.
on valentine’s day, i want to remember that we need to break out of the […]

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to celebrate chinese new year these two days before valentine’s day, and to continue this series of articles about love, let us enjoy chinese poet kuan tao-sheng’s words about love in married life. she lived from 1262 to 1319 but her words are timeless:
you and i
have so much love,
that it
burns like a fire,
in which […]

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this morning i turned again to the beautiful words of martin buber, austrian-jewish philosopher and mystic. his i and thou is perhaps the most important book ever written about what it means to be in relationship.
the relationship between i and you – the stuff of love.
buber talks about contemplating a tree. (i have […]

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below is an excerpt from martin buber’s i and thou. i’ll refer to it in my next post.
i contemplate a tree.
i can accept it

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