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Some of you may have noticed my blog’s tagline:
observe … reflect … transform
If not, well, I’m going to talk about it here. Xini was musing on the tagline recently and asked me to explain it. I commented on his blog that I had deliberately chosen words with many meanings. I’m still a poet and […]

I was teasing someone who had been out of touch with “giving up email for Lent.” This progressed into a discussion about how people usually “give up” things like chocolate, sweets, etc–turning the practice of sacrifice into a mini-diet.
So…meaningful contemporary things that people can sacrifice?
I see that other people have given up social networking, like […]

I’ve been thinking about ethics as part of evaluating my values system, particularly the ethical standards I have accepted as part of my professional life.
Most technical certifications do not have ethics statements attached to them. Security certifications do. The first one I signed was the ISC(2) Ethics Standard. The second is the CISA code of […]

I am INTP. My dominant function is Introverted Thinking, my auxiliary is Extraverted Intuition. If I do not feed my Ti, I begin to wrap round my axle. If I do not feed my Ne, I starve. I need information from the world like plants need water. My tertiary process, Si/e has emerged and I […]

Part of the culture change meeting included a discussion of Covey’s Law of Reciprocity and his “emotional bank account” concept. If you’re unfamiliar with these, Terry Bragg’s website can clue you in.
You should probably read that website before you continue, if you’re completely in the dark.
The nutshell version is “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch […]

We’ve been working on the house this weekend. Specifically, we had all the interior doors replaced with prehung, panelled doors. We also got new brass lever door handles.
We both helped the contractor with the work. I did the doorknobs, Sdalek helped rip out & replace the doors. The contractor left then, and we’ve been painting.
The […]

A friend and I were discussing our personal failings one day. We each had a litany of miseries–we were terrible failures at this and that, we were misunderstood constantly–and the challenge of digging ourselves our of our pits into respectability seemed impossible. As we complained about how we didn’t measure up to what we should […]

I’ve spent quite some time thinking about this topic. For years I’ve wanted to write down my thoughts on spirit and the movement of the divine in my life, but the words disappear as soon as I start. In casual conversation, the words come easily enough, but I rarely make notes on what I say.
I’m […]