Rain Drops
25 Nov 2019
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s about learning to dance in the rain. – Anonymous
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Milkweed Angels
25 Sep 2019
“Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.” ― Jerry Spinelli
Snowy Summers
22 Jan 2018
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer” – Albert Camus
Flow
17 Dec 2017
“’These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.” Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Kawartha Reveries
7 Dec 2017
Moon-Sun Variations
28 Nov 2017
“Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” – Confucius
Chapter 5: In Search of A Sensory Health Model (draft)
12 Jul 2016
Time is timeless and knowledge priceless if you believe you are the breath of life versus the embodiment of life. – Cindy Blackstock Highly sensitive children are often healthy. Unfortunately, in our modern world, their ability to notice subtle changes in the environment can trigger major sensory stress. As we saw in chapter 4, the … More Chapter 5: In Search of A Sensory Health Model (draft)
Chapter 5: In Search of a Sensory Health Model
2 Jan 2015
Time is timeless and knowledge priceless if you believe you are the breath of life versus the embodiment of life. – Cindy Blackstock Highly sensitive children are often healthy. Unfortunately, in our modern world, their ability to notice subtle changes in the environment can trigger major sensory stress. As we saw in chapter 4, the … More Chapter 5: In Search of a Sensory Health Model
Sabbatical Report
6 Nov 2013
Sabbatical Report, Alexandra Bal It has been a while since I have written anything in this blog. This is in big part due to the fact that I have been on sabbatical, withdrawing from daily activities to focus on my research. Ahead of the sabbatical, I conducted the first round of interviews for the SHHRC … More Sabbatical Report
Noise imprints
30 Nov 2012
“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and aesthetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. As he crosses threshold after threshold, conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons … More Noise imprints
Recent Reflections | Architecture of Meaning
27 Oct 2011
Recent Reflections | Architecture of Meaning.
Me Medicine – Donna Dickenson – Project Syndicate
27 Oct 2011
Francis Collins, Director of the United States’ National Institutes of Health, guides us through the upheaval in his new book The Language of Life – DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine. As he puts it, “We are on the leading edge of a true revolution in medicine, one that promises to transform the traditional … More Me Medicine – Donna Dickenson – Project Syndicate
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