change therapy

if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!it’s hallowe’en! i’m busy being a fashion mistake - that’s my costume for this year. this picture gives you a bit of a taste of but it doesn’t show the real nice touches – the smeared rouge, […]

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i’m very lucky to be living on one of the world’s most multicultural places. this week, we celebrate diwali, the indian festival of light.  it’s similar to western christmas (and carries a similar baggage!)

image by joshwah

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as someone with a strong buddhist influence, i often think about simplicity, and make tiny, cautious steps towards it. my baroque mind finds this rather ridiculous because life is most fun and exciting when there are lots and lots of decorations and curlicues, when there is boundless abundance and variations upon variations on themes […]

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in this post, i happily join sojourner in her sunday inspiration project.

fireflies. from ancient times we humans have always been fascinated by these little beings. scientists explain that the firefly’s light is produced through a complicated interaction of a number of chemicals. but for me, its light teaches a very valuable lesson: […]

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a few months ago i went to one of t. harv eker’s millionaire mind intensive workshops. i didn’t buy any of their courses (i guess becoming a millionaire isn’t high on my list) but got quite a bit out of it otherwise. if you get a chance to go to one of those […]

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here is part 2 of the october 2008 buddhist carnival. you can find the first part here, where we focused exclusively on posts that discuss poverty in a buddhist context.

vipassana no. 1: this, too
i’ve been “enjoying my breath” on the regular four times a week for almost a year. i say hello […]

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image by pierre pouliquin

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i’m still battling this cold, so i’m just playing around. this personalized bookshelf from shelfari is something i found on virtual wordsmith today. i played around and stocked it with a few of my favourite books, trying to choose some that i hadn’t mentioned here much yet.
what a great waste of […]

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i was going to post the rest of the october buddhist carnival today but i have a cold and putting together these remaining five or six posts in a way that makes at least some sense seems to be a little much for these gray cells today.
so i’ll leave you with a quote by jack […]

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today’s video against poverty is of the regina smudge walk which was held last june.
on january 15th, 2007, maclean’s magazine declared regina’s north central to be “canada’s worst neighborhood.” this unflattering portrayal was particularly hard felt by north central’s aboriginal population which numbers roughly 16,000. to some the article was embellished and to others it […]

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as promised, a video about poverty every day this week - blog action day week. this one is a moving piece from last year’s day against poverty.

again, i want to take this opportunity and both thank some people who have been good to me, and also shamelessly use this linkbait to draw everyone’s attention […]

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the first part of the october buddhist carnival is entirely dedicated to the topic of blog action day 2008:
poverty.
longing for the begging bowl
as usual, we start with a poem. here is a translation from malayalam into in english by k p pradesh – a poem by koyamparambath satchidanandan
buddha, this earth is burning
not by lust but […]

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tomorrow is blog action day, and the topic is poverty. i figured, why not post about poverty for the rest of the week?
here’s a video by my mennonite friends. the mennonite central committee does an incredible amount of work in the areas of poverty and social action in general.

and … the other thing […]

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this is a continuation of my blog post a little while ago on helping a person overcome guilt.
clara’s and my exchanges were a conversation, with a thread going through it of questions (on my part) and replies (on carla’s). at the end of our process, i asked clara to tell me which questions were […]

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today concludes the last day of mental illness awareness week, and the beginning of canadian thanksgiving. i’d like to give thanks, then, to all the bloggers who’ve written about this topic. here is a small selection of them:
mental health and poverty
the kick-off of “mental illness awareness week” in canada is coming with […]

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