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Today’s Reflection is about Appreciating What Is I am spending the Christmas holidays with dear friends on Cortes Island, which is a combination of a drive and 3 ferries north of Vancouver. A journey of about 7-8 hours, which is absolutely worth it. While I have been many times on Cortes in the summertime, winter [read more...] Today’s Reflection is about charity and donations. Sort of.Wilford organized a very unique event about a year ago. He brought together a group of activists and business figures, together with a diverse group of indigenous tribal leaders, to a retreat for a dialogue about our common future.There was a moment when he told a woman, [read more...] Today’s Reflection is about Big Brothers, of the Orwell kind. My parents and I left Russia, or Soviet Union, as it was called then, in 1974. We left pretty much everything there, including many dear friends. Quite a few people chose to severe all contact with us, once they found out that we are leaving [read more...] Today’s Reflection is about a different set of laws to guide one through life. I think we live a very complicated life these days, though perhaps not necessarily by choice. There are rules, laws, regulations, permits, by-laws, stop signs, and many more visible and invisible chains that supposedly enforce a proper, civilized, and respectful behaviour [read more...] Today’s Reflection is about a stone, of a particular kind. The words are somehow not coming. It has been almost a week since I came back from a 2-week adventure in Europe, signifying the end of the summer for me. A few days in Amsterdam with a friend, then a week with my parents in [read more...] Today’s Reflection is about the last seven years of my life, and a precious four-legged companion walking beside me. Tobi and I went on a long hike yesterday, venturing deep into the woods. While it was a familiar route for us, in its first part, I decided to go further than we have ever gone [read more...] Today’s Reflection is about an activity, about a way of looking at one’s life, and perhaps also about our collective future. Who are you? Who is anybody really? How do we know an answer to such a tricky and seemingly impossible question? A River of Life is a metaphor I recently used, in an introduction [read more...] Today’s Reflection is about the Summer Gathering event I just attended at Hollyhock. Though I have a sense of incomplete thoughts, because the experience has not yet fully settled within me. And probably won’t, any time soon… Summer Gathering is an event that has been running at Hollyhock for the past 17 years. Perhaps [read more...] Today’s Reflection is about integrating a duality of a life. Definitely mine. Perhaps yours too. I don’t have children of my own, which is a life choice of a long time ago. However, some of my friends do. This begs an interesting question, along the lines of “What kind of a world am I [read more...] Today’s Reflection is about a rich and profound journey of the past two years. They have graduated a week ago, and despite my many thoughts and feelings about this completion, I am having a hard time writing about it. It is as though words will not adequately describe the richness of the experience of this [read more...] |
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