Category: Life
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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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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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My name is Authenticity
Years ago, my social worker friend and I drove to a First Nations community in Alberta. Along the way she shared with me stories, the loss of her husband when she was in her twenties, her relationship with her mom. She told her stories like it was possible for me to experience. I was touched, […]
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One Word -Senses
December 8, Beginning another spin around the sun! I am blessed and grateful for gifts received, yesterday. I appreciated all my gifts with my senses to savor the moment.
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Building A bridge in Our Everyday Dialogue Is Part of Truth and Reconciliation
My dad, Isidore Deranger and older brother, Fred Deranger I started Empathic Witness podcast in October 2020. It has over a thousand subscribers. I admit this is minor, but it is steadily building, and listeners are returning to hear new episodes. By the end of 2022, more amazing Indigenous peoples from across Canada whose words […]
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30 years In Love
When you know, you know! “I’m on my way, it’s you I turn toHow many days have I to love youI got to say this is inside meI’ve got to have someone to guide meHate it when you leave, hate it when you leaveHate it when you’re leaving me– Keith Richards Every year I write […]
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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 […]