(Time to read: ~ 5 minutes) I continue to be delighted with my iPad. As time has gone by I have found it useful for more and more things. The original vision As I mentioned in my previous blog, I got my iPad (original version) at the Canadian launch date of May 28, 2012, at […]
About Glenda
I Love My iPad
(Time to read: ~3 minutes) – (Content originally created in 2010) Why I Bought an iPad My journal cupboard was almost full, and I was finding it increasingly difficult to find particular entries that I wanted to include in articles and documents I was writing. I thought that an electronic alternative would take up less […]
My Focusing Journey
(Time to read: ~ 2 minutes) I first read Eugene Gendlin’s book “Focusing” over 20 years ago. I felt enormous relief at being encouraged to honour the body-based, non-cognitive “knowing” I had been in touch with since I was a child. As a result, I have integrated that energy with my logical, left-brain thinking in […]
List – PD James books – Roy Marsden movies
(Time to read: ~ 1 minute) In an earlier post, I wrote about the criteria I use in choosing books and videos for entertainment. One of the video series I enjoy primarily for its characters are the Adam Dalgleish stories by PD James, but only the ones in which Dalgleish is portrayed by Roy Marsden. […]
How I Choose Books (and other entertainment)
(Time to read: ~ 1 minute) Someone once divided all stories into either romances or mysteries. Using this categorization, I am very definitely a mystery fan. There are two other key factors I use in choosing entertainments of all types: The world view of the author. Einstein said that we all must decide for ourselves […]
The Blue Suitcase (Focusing Practice)
(Time to read: ~3 minutes) I’ve just started taking an Inner Relationship Focusing course, and I had my first practice session this afternoon. I first learned about this body-led practice over 20 years ago, by reading Eugene Gendlin’s book “Focusing”. I immediately felt enormous joy and relief at the encouragement to trust my “body-knowing”, even […]
Quietly by Love
Why … take by force what you may have quietly by love? – Chief Powhatan 1607
Political Spin?
(Time to read: ~1 minute) One Perspective Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California , was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that Senator Harry Reid’s great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889. Both Judy and Harry Reid share […]
To bring world peace – The Dalai Lama
If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world. —The Dalai Lama
There is no reason not to follow your heart…
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almosteverything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear ofembarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that […]
“...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save.”
― Mary Oliver
