Category: New year
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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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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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There is a Crack in Everything, that is How the Light Gets In
There is a Crack in Everything, that is How the Light Gets In The pandemic of COVID 19 has brought us some joy and some sorrow. Because of this pain many people accessed their creativity, I founded a charitable foundation, seventhgift.ca (G.I.F.T.) for Indigenous people in Canada to address trauma. We can reframe the sorrow…
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Unstoppable Confidence
We live in a world where anything is possible! I listened to David Nurse in a podcast. He is a best-selling author, speaker, and coach to NBA players as a former professional basketball player. He talks about the psychology of being the very best is to be in integrity with who you say you are.…
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ROGER’S ADVENTURE PART ONE 2022 Luezan Tue
Sacred ground In this blog I write about the incredible adventure my elder brother, Roger and our elder sister, Rose are taking to our traditional forest land by Lake Athabasca in Northern Saskatchewan, we call the land Luezan Tue! I admit what they are doing is incredibly brave and a bit risky. However, with risks…
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WHAT DOES THE COSMOS HAVE TO DO WITH OUR CHOICES?
As it turns out, possibly more than we realize. Astrology that looks at your birth time, and where you were born, is called astrocartography. I was recently introduced to the subject by my daughter who is a clinical herbalist with a broad interest in many things to do with nature. The placements of the planets…
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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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Trauma Warning deals with residential school: another horrific discovery 2022
IRSSS Toll-Free Line: 1-800-721-0066 24hr National Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419 KUU-US Crisis Line: 1-800-588-8717 Tsow-Tun-Le Lum: 1-888-403-3123 The discovery of 215 unmarked graves in Kamloops residential school last year created an outrage briefly. Until the news cycle ended in early 2021, society reacted quickly to the horror but then the attention faded away, just as quickly.…
From the Shores of the Ottawa River 