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When I was young, I had imaginary friends. Not too unusual, especially for an imaginative kid raised in the sticks.
So I read the headline “Half of adult Brits have imaginary friends” with a great deal of interest. The article is actually about how many people have friends they’ve met over the Internet but whom […]

My previous post generated a question about the difference between technical writing in a Sensing style compared to using an iNtuiting style.
Writing done in a Sensing style uses more concrete examples, details, step-by-step sequences. Sensing is a more immediate time-frame, more “here and now,” or looks backward. Grammatically, more present and past tense.
Writing done in […]

A couple weeks ago I went to a local Jungian seminar. The topic was the archetype of the path. For the first exercise, we had to select a picture from a stack–like selecting a card–and talk about it.
I pulled the only B&W photo. It was a foot path through woods, just a dirt path. The […]

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss theologian, 1741-1801
I found this quote on ThinkExist. It’s the same usage of the word “intuition” that Jung uses in his personality theory…. I should research it to see if there is a connection.

One of the truly humbling experiences I’ve had this week is the unexpected support from friends. Gratitude seems like too small a word to encompass what I’ve been feeling.
When I say “unexpected,” I mean that. As I’ve told people how this week has unfolded, what’s surprised me is the outpouring of support. I’ve been in […]

It’s been a while since I chose to trust my inner resources. This is a sad and sobering realization. For too many years, I’ve believed the SJ mentality of the majority–the craving for security above all things, at the expense of my soul.
The last few months have been a process of digging in and reviewing […]

Today I learned that no matter how hard you try to:

Communicate clearly and effectively, someone will not understand
Include all the people affected by something, you will leave someone out (and you will be beaten for it)
Answer someone’s question, you will be second-guessed
Be honest, someone will assume you are lying or trying to “pull one over”
Be […]

Information security has become more of a buzz-phrase lately. It seems I keep running into technicians who are eager to make the leap into what appears to be a more lucrative field, but who lack a firm grasp of what info sec is really about. At first glance, info sec seems to be simply the […]