Nearly two months later after planning to avoid Twitter, lead me to question the value of social media in my life. Here is what I discovered about my absence and return.
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Chuck Klosterman’s ‘The Nineties’
For Klosterman, the nineties began with the release of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ album, released in September 1991; for me, the easiest marker would be the fall of 1989 when I moved to Whitehorse, Yukon from Regina, Saskatchewan, turning 10 that November, but the more significant moment would be in 1994 when my family moved into a house that we built in a new subdivision of Whitehorse (nearly 15 years old).
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Let’s Communicate
Today happens to be Bell Let’s Talk day in Canada. I thought it was an appropriate time to talk about where I am at mentally and where I would like to see myself go in this coming year. The framework for this discussion is around the concept of a theme for the year or season.
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Turning 12 Years Old
This last year was full of more challenges than the previous year had prepared us for. The ongoing saga with COVID had a bigger impact last year than 2021 did, both because we had adapted to a lot of the new norms with how life is going to be now, but also because school was largely unaffected by it.
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Today is my birthday. For the past eleven birthdays, I have been sitting down to write about the last year and reflect on what has happened. Some have been easier to write than others, but this year I don’t feel like writing. It’s been a year of humbling events that has pushed me to further growth- or, at least, that is what I keep reminding myself after every event that happens to keep challenging me.
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41 – All Fired Up
Last year, I wrote about walking into the fire. It seems like such a long time ago after what has happened in the world. For me, it feels even longer. Needless to say, it has not been a good year.
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It’s been awhile. It would be easy to create excuses for the lack of writing, but the honest truth comes down to me not making the time and adapting to the changes that occur in life. I had intended to write this before now. I woke up with a major headache earlier in the week from the forest fire smoke sinking into the Okanagan valley from Kamloops and other areas of the Interior. Last week, during the most somber Canada Day I have ever experienced, work appointments get shifted to first thing in the morning rather than the afternoon, and…
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The days are blurring together for me lately. It’s hard to tell when one day ends, a new one begins. Things that I happened last week only happened the other day. A lot of events seem to be cyclical, as well. I feel like a task is complete, only to have something happen and I have to start that process all over. As busy as the days tend to be, I am doing a much better job of carving out time for myself. Time in the mornings to workout or have a period of time to read, and…
Comments closedI think the beauty of infrastructure is that you figure out a way to acknowledge that everything can be difficult, and will be difficult at some point, especially if you’re trying to lose weight or quit smoking. I’m going to do what it takes to account for the times I’m going to fail at this, what happens when things fall apart. Infrastructure is a way to make something that will be difficult or inconvenient into something you may even look forward to doing. — Merlin Mann Merlin has been one of my favourite speakers on podcasts for a long…
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A nice walk downtown, starting spring break the usual way through Kasugai Gardens and along the boardwalk. Nice to see spring is just around the corner here with crocuses and tulips started to come up. One of the many reasons why I love living in Kelowna. Related Images:
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