Home sweet home?

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.
John Ed Pearce
Somehow, it seems, there is a transition underway. One of the things that reflects that transition is the recurring theme of moving house.
A few months ago, my parents sold my childhood home and moved to a [...]

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Play and purpose, kind of.

The basis of human trust is established through play signals.
Dr. Stuart Brown
As I mentioned earlier, I’m hooked on TED.com. Since I don’t really have time to just sit down and watch the lectures all day, I multi-task. While doing the dishes last week, I listened to Dr. Stuart Brown’s lecture on the importance of play [...]

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An open letter to my dream job

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
Lord Byron
I assure you, Havi is not the only person in the world to inspire me. But she does it so well, and so often, that the traces of that inspiration sometimes find their way back here. This time, her post about writing a [...]

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Tidbit Insightings, January 26

If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty well.
Ruth Carlisle
After being incapacitated by my annual 3-day flu this past weekend, I’m glad to be posting again.
Communicating with self
I’m really liking this whole journaling thing. Paired with Shiva Nata and meditation, it really [...]

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“You’re stupid.”

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Ever since the past fall, I’ve been paying attention to my inner dialogue. First of all, it’s bilingual – Finnish and English both feature in a happy chaos. Second, I recognize different personas speaking. Not in a multiple personality [...]

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