14 Oct The stages of writing as meal prep – from sous chef to plating

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If Writing in Community is training as a sous chef, Then Build a Second Brain is figuring out my mise en place, And Write of Passage is teaching me flavour profiles and plating. How three writing courses helped me improve as a writer. “What are we grateful for this year?”  We are all gathered around...

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07 Oct #MakeTakeTalk

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We can find ourselves feeling powerless in the face of some of the big issues facing us these days.  I repeatedly find myself spiraling into a position where I question whether there is anything I could ever do that would make a difference. Over time, however, I have found myself gravitating...

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30 Sep How to turn boring into riveting like Michael Lewis

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“Michael Lewis is a master at making seemingly boring topics — baseball statistics, government bureaucrats, collateralized debt obligations — riveting. So how does he do it?” Ezra Klein It turns out that Michael Lewis’ unique writing style has flummoxed such content creators as Ezra Klein and Malcolm Gladwell. Which was handy, as I...

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23 Sep We borrow this Earth

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Maya: Hey Karena! Mind if I join you? You look a little perturbed. What’s up? Karena: Sure, Maya. I could use the pleasant company! I’m contemplating a mental conundrum:  What “better” world were we trying to create for our children that we gave away what was beautiful and free? And how did we go...

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15 Sep She calls herself “Mother of Dragons”

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I’d dreaded becoming an empty nester. The very phrase had me on the edge of tears, visions of gazing into the void. I needed a rebrand. “Wait. What am I moping about? I asked myself. “Isn’t this the very goal we’ve been working towards all these years? To raise responsible independent...

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08 Sep In case you needed to hear this …

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If this is the first week of school and you’ve just dropped your kid off at university “You mean it doesn’t get any easier?”  she asked, loading storage units, clothes, musical instruments to drop her daughter off as a freshman at college. I was loading my lonely luggage into the car...

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05 Aug A tale of two golds

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"Can we have two golds?" asked Barshim, making the Impossible suddenly possible. "This is beyond sport. This is the message we deliver to the young generation." Barshim A story of fulfillment - and also friendship This is a tale of fulfillment, of friendship and of turning "big I" Impossible into possible. It is a...

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19 Jul Video: The space to dream. The space to imagine. The space to believe.

Posted at 22:54h in Contours of Courageous Parenting Book, GenZ Parent, Hope Inspiration Transformation, Newsletter, space by Karena de Souza 2 Comments

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Space & Parenting This is a transcript of a H.I.T presentation done on July 17, 2021.  HIT talks showcase Hope, Inspiration and Transformation. Each event hosts eight speakers from across the globe and across all time zones who each speak for eight minutes.   https://youtu.be/SGmrUXf5WHY   Today I would like to talk to you about...

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26 Jun Habits Become Easier If You Are Blessed With These: 5 Reasons I Am Grateful for 3-6-5 days of Writing

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Feeling grateful and blessed! I am on a 365-day writing streak. I've been chasing the habit of regular writing for the past five years. And now that I have made it this far, I would like to share some of the reasons it may have worked to date. Is there a...

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26 Jun Read it and Reap – Six wonderful reviews of the book I accidentally published this year

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I am celebrating this year of writing by sharing six different and wonderful reviews of the book that came together once I got into a habit of daily writing. "Emotions create habits" -- BJ Fogg Tiny Habits 3-6-5-series: This post is part of a series: Celebrating 365 days of continuous writing Simple Discipline Takes...

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