Category: New year
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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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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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HAPPINESS is WITHIN YOU
I wish you happiness! Elbert Hubbard, a well-known American writer, and philosopher, said “Happiness is a habit – cultivate it.” This means you have control over your happiness. You can train yourself to be happy. The most important thing to understand is happiness like, a spark can ignite into something big within you. Don’t wait […]
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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 […]
From the Shores of the Ottawa River 