change therapy

hey everyone – if you’ve been wondering why i haven’t done lots of updates lately, it’s because i was getting ready for what is the most significant voyage for me since 33 years ago, when i took my 4-year-old son and emigrated from germany to paraguay.  my mother is moving into a seniors’ home and [...]

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for many, many years, my aunt has been sending me the calendar of the german youth hostel association. for every two weeks, it has a little saying as well as a beautiful photograph (come to think of it, that’s where my love for wordless wednesdays may come from). the photograph can be separated [...]

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what was your biggest non-monetary success this year? i asked this question on twitter, LinkedIn and facebook. this is post #3 – the first instalment is here, and the second here. (the ones with the @ denote twitter names).
@dorylanenter: new friendships i made

joanna poppink: transforming my front garden into a gorgeous, free [...]

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here’s part 2 of my social media friends’ nonmonetary successes in 2009: (the ones with the @ are people’s twitter accounts).   part 1 is here.
darren barefoot: i wrote half a book, which, it turns out, is a shocking amount of work.
hamish: two of my former clients (and now friends) successfully landed new jobs thanks in [...]

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what was your biggest non-monetary success this year? i asked this question on twitter, LinkedIn and facebook, and here are some responses: in fact, i got so many, i have to turn this into two posts.
i’ll start with raul who said: mental health camp, hands down. the reason i’m starting with this [...]

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i’ve been so tired these last few days, i’m just going to post this image.
image by tambako the jaguar

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for a while now, i have been working part-time for the mennonite central committee in richmond. i’d get on the 49 bus to granville street, and then take the 98 B-line down granville. granville is one of the older streets of vancouver, and that stretch down to the fraser river is lined by old trees, [...]

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after over a month of problems with my database, it looks like we’re 90% done with fixing it. there’s still a bunch of redirecting and domain transferring going on but i THINK the blog can be used now again – just in time for the blogathon!
can you send me some comments to let me [...]

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for friends and family who want to get a bit of a sense of what hawaii was like, i’m reprinting here all my hawaii-related tweets. and – uh, you’ll have to read them bottom to top
back in vancouver. lots of jet lag. another bout of high level flight anxiety. lots of learning, [...]

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well, people, you won’t see much of me for the next little while.  i’m off to hawaii, to see things like in this picture here.  if i feel like it, i’ll post something during my vacation – we’ll see.  i will give updates on twitter, though.  also, some people have offered guest posts, so maybe [...]

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this is a guest post by evan hadkins. his blog is wellbeing and health where he writes about all aspects of health (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and social) with a bias to psychological health and a focus on practical things to do that can make a real difference. he also has a membership [...]

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i’m more evil than john chow!
people say john chow is evil (if you don’t know him: he’s one of the first bloggers who wasn’t ashamed to make lots of money online). now we know the truth: i’m way more evil than john chow!
you see, there is a test now – very scientific and mathematically [...]

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this morning – or i guess by now it’s yesterday morning – i went for a walk, to clear my head. i really like my neighbourhood. i live right by memorial park, a good old south vancouver barrio. walking down our wide, quiet, sunny street, i found our filipino neighbours at the [...]

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my friends J and M just came over (at 12:00 at night!) to keep me company as i brave the last few hours of the blogathon. so we did two interviews. here is the first one. i’m “i”. please observe my stellar interview skills.
i: what should i interview you about?
j: fun!
i: [...]

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the other morning i felt really crummy. my back hurt, my bones felt stiff, and my head felt all fogged up. i couldn’t think straight and just wanted to crawl away but because i couldn’t think straight i couldn’t figure out where to.
now my back doesn’t really hurt anymore, when i move my head my [...]

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