Category: Awe
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LIFE’S MOMENTS
Mid-February Musings Lately, I’ve been reflecting more deeply on life’s fleeting nature. I grapple with the idea of a purposeful life—what does it truly mean? I believe we must be intentional in how we live, yet purpose manifests differently for each of us. This contemplation led me to reevaluate what is truly important in my…
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Creating Life
I am posing a blog I wrote ten years ago with edits. Another year slips seductively into oblivion. You can’t stop the passage of time. It is like trying to grasp water with your hands. It simply slips through your fingers. Each day folds seamlessly into another day, and before you realize it, you find yourself…
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Healing Gardens: A Journey to Recovery
In 2018, I experienced a medical crisis. Thankfully, it was resolved with surgery. Unfortunately, I suffered a Right brain parietal stroke during surgery. I designed a healing garden that summer, to help me recover faster. People feel better when surrounded by fresh flowers. I am no different. As I was researching healing, I discovered an…
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Reflection on Happiness
Happiness is relative, and fleeting, but necessary for our body’s emotional and spiritual well-being no matter who we are and where we come from. The important thing to remember is that pure happiness lives within each of us. We need to cultivate and nurture happiness. I grew up in a home with no electricity or…
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Gaming Life – is the Opposite of Victimhood
I listen to a podcast this morning May 28, 2023, of former Chief Business Officer of Google X, Mo Gawdat. author of Solve For Happy; Engineer Your Path To Joy The sudden and tragic death of his son at 21 set him on a path to make a billion people happier. His view validated how…
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Awe is always around Us
What does it mean to be awestruck? Do you actively cultivate awe in your life Kelter) As an Indigenous person, a Dene. I am gifted vibrant oral stories passed down for generations and our traditional ecological knowledge, we are intrinsically part of ecosystems. The Importance of nature, trees, green space. Seeing sunrise and the sunset…
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How I Imagine Stuff – I Don’t
What is in people’s Mind? Could be nothing at all “I tasted it, and that was all I got. A one-time deal. I can’t taste it again in my imagination.” -Brian Leibold It is like that for me too because I have what is called aphantasia. It was discovered in 1880. The term was coined…
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Dreaming a Little Dream
“I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen. And accrue what I hear into myself…and let sound contribute toward me.” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass I began reading a friend’s husband’s book South Asian Adventures with the Active Poor. Gem Munro is an excellent writer and put me right slap bang into…
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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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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…
From the Shores of the Ottawa River 