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Sunday LIVING INTO THE FUTURE
Over the summer, a technique I learned about in a course was how to live into your future. We started with setting a date we want to accomplish something, and then you reverse engineer what you hope to accomplish by that date backwards until you reach today’s date. For example, my friend Wants an organic…
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Inner Peace is in You
Discover Inner Peace 2022 March 13 It was after reading a friend’s Facebook page post it prompted me to write this blog post. Paul is a mediator and his words helped me focus on this piece. Thank you for your wisdom, Paul. Inner peace comes from a relationship that is based on acceptance, intimacy, and…
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Luezan Tue called Our Name
My family were environmentalists well before the term became popularized. We are Denesuline people, from Northern Saskatchewan. We are strong, proud. Stewards, of Mother Earth. We take this responsibility seriously. In the 70’s our dad answered the call of the land, and took his older children, to our traditional hunting lands. They hadn’t been back…
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2022 striding into the new year with eyes wide open
My intention in 2022 is not about losing weight although I could stand to lose a few pounds, it is not about exercising more. I could do more of that too. My intention, my goal for 2022 is to not live small, to show up in life because my actions matter and the people in…
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Denesuline Therese Deranger – May 08, 1919 – February 12, 2016 The last Traditional arranged Dene marriage.
She was born into this world at Old Fort, Alberta on May 08, 1919. Eldest child of 11 Children, 2 sisters and 8 brothers. she got married just after turning 15 on July 1933 in Fond du Lac (Isadore Deranger) and became a widow on April 4, 1992 in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Born into an…
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To Honour And Respect
GIFT VISION All life is sacred. Every living being is sacred each one of us carries a sacred gift. These gifts have been obscured through colonization and genocide that has created intergenerational trauma. Substance abuse, mental health, and community and family breakdown are symptoms of this trauma. The GIFT Foundation envisions a collective way forward…
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Darling you are Love
Today, I am feeling wonderful, grateful, and content, one Month into the New Year. Tomorrow is February, love month. Lol For years I never celebrated Valentine’s because I viewed it as a stupid holiday. I felt that those that didn’t have a Valentine would feel more isolated and alone because so much commercialization was…
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Love Perspective
January 05 What is LOVE? (Hint a perspective) Canadian born rapper spoken word artist a poet and now an international bestselling author who writes about love and goes by Humble The Poet. this is from his new book How to be Love
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December 31, 2022 Leaning into Gratitude
New Year’s resolutions: we love making them, right? We look forward to improving ourselves in some manner. Maybe it is to lose weight or find love. Or we just want to be a better version of who we were in 2022. We believe by setting a New Year’s resolution we will get there. Does that…
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Awestruck! Is the Fast Track to Happiness and Meaning- (Dacher Keltner)
As an Indigenous person I am gifted vibrant oral stories passed down for generations and our traditional ecological knowledge. We are intrinsically part of ecosystems and connected to, animals, people, and nature. Seeing sunrise and the sunset brings awe. Walking in nature brings awe. Why not listen to music while walking in nature? Music and…
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A CHRISTMAS A TIME for REFLECTION and CONNECTIONS
We must work on our relationships to experience freedom. There is no relationship that can’t be restored with effort and when we give up our ego, and meet each other soul to soul soul. Think about that difficult phone call you made to someone you have had a breakdown in your relationship with and how…
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