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Entries from February 2008
almost wordless friday
February 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: general
carnival of eating disorders #14 – part 1
February 29th, 2008 · 9 Comments
it’s that time of the month again. yes, people, it’s time for the carnival of eating disorders. this blog carnival showcases blogs that discuss anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder and other issues that people have with food and body image. mostly, i point you to blogs here written by people who have personal and/or professional [...]
Tags: blogs of note · depression and mental illness · eating disorders, body image & similar topics · psychological research and other things academic
some thoughts on the robert latimer affair
February 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments
today, the appeal division of the national parole board overturned a board panel’s decision to deny robert latimer day parole. latimer, who has served seven years of a life sentence for killing his severely disabled daughter, will soon be released to a half-way house. here are a few blog reactions to this. what are your [...]
Tags: news and events · peace, environment, social justice et al
bullying stops here!
February 27th, 2008 · 15 Comments
today is international stand up to bullying day. students and lots of other people all across canada and the world wear pink to mark the day. last year, two students in nova scotia (canada’s east coast) donned and distributed pink shirts after a classmate fell victim to homophobic bullying for wearing pink to school. this [...]
Tags: emotional health · news and events · peace, environment, social justice et al · queer talk, gender issues and sexual identity
more northern voice: ADD among techies
February 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment
one of the presenters at northern voice was vancouver ADD coach pete quily. he spoke on attention deficit disorder – ADD – for techies. let me share some of the information. “the internet,” he said, “is the crack cocaine of people with ADD.” one of the things that happens for people with ADD is that [...]
Tags: addictions · the net
dave olson: blogging and creativity
February 25th, 2008 · 5 Comments
northern voice was a wonderful experience. as nancy white said northern voice is a living community indicator and lives in the culture of love. where else can you find the intersection of geekdom and love? i’ll be blogging about nancy’s and other people’s sessions in the days to come. today i want to tell you [...]
Tags: blogs of note · creativity: poetry, art, etc.
a meme for my tired brain
February 23rd, 2008 · 10 Comments
i’m here at the northern voice 2008 blogging conference. an amazing amount of inspiration! so i need an intellectual break and who comes along … c.b. whittemore! she tagged me to participate in an interesting “getting to know you” meme. it’s based on a list of attributes that supposedly go with the month you’re born [...]
Tags: blogs of note
meditation in an indian prison
February 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments
yesterday at the meditation meetup, we watched a film, doing time, doing vipassana – a moving documentary of how meditation can change life in prison. this is the story of an ancient meditation technique named vipassana, which shows people how to take control of their lives and channel them toward their own good. it is [...]
Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · peace, environment, social justice et al · spirituality
creativity: the murky mind
February 21st, 2008 · 15 Comments
this is the first in a series of blog conversations about creativity with jeremy of PsyBlog, one of the leading psychology blogs. in a post in january, jeremy wrote how do great artists create? how do brilliant scientists solve the hardest problems in their field? listen to them try to explain and you’ll probably be [...]
Tags: blogs of note · creativity: poetry, art, etc. · interesting books · psychological research and other things academic
wordless wednesday on a wednesday
February 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: wordless wednesday
weight loss and the law of attraction: a dialogue
February 19th, 2008 · 64 Comments
yesterday, we had a guest post by david about using the law of attraction to lose weight. since david’s and my views are a bit different, i promised you a dialogue about it. so here we go. i will start with some of the ideas with which i agree: i completely agree that our expectations [...]
Tags: eating disorders, body image & similar topics · psychological research and other things academic · therapy
losing weight using the law of attraction
February 18th, 2008 · 13 Comments
today we have a guest post by david hooper. it is an excerpt from his book ask, believe, receive and fits right in with the theme of men with weight issues we were talking about last week. david’s and my views on this overlap in some areas, and they don’t in others. tomorrow i will [...]
Tags: eating disorders, body image & similar topics · interesting books
a buddhist carnival – february 2008 (part 2)
February 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments
good morning! here is part 2 of the february 2008 edition of a buddhist carnival. enlightenment two people speak on this topic. matthew spears presents an interesting contemplation on the nature of enlightenment. among others, he compares three concepts of enlightenment. he argues that enlightenment is a perception and “because it is a perception, from [...]
Tags: spirituality
a buddhist carnival – february 2008 (part 1)
February 15th, 2008 · No Comments
hello my friends! it’s time for the february edition of a buddhist carnival. once again, we have many good submissions, and i’ll post this edition in two parts. frozen peas because it’s friday – frozen peas friday – i’ll start with a blog entry by a buddhist writing about breast cancer. like susan reynolds, “whymommy” [...]
Tags: cancer · spirituality
a poem, with love
February 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments
whatever you say it’s alright i take your word i take it in into my ears into my heart into my bones i take your words into the cradle of my arms choobeechoocheecha rock them to sleep in their own sound and let them rest and let them dream deep in my soul when they [...]



