Narrating and Demonstrating the Work We Do
Canva’s Design School has everything you need to learn design. Check out our daily design articles, interactive tutorials and awesome tips. Source: designschool.canva.com This really is a fine, beginner’s design school. It is free, it affords creative as well as ordinary use, and, as a tool, it is easy to make the emphasis on the … Continue reading Canva Design School Blog →
On the glorious “difficulty of combining the real with the decidedly un-real.” Long before poet Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911– Source: www.brainpickings.org I do believe that this “pretending life into reality” is very much what visualizing and feedforwarding is all about. For individuals it is about self-actualizing or in more spiritual terms is about re-discovering … Continue reading Grandmother’s Glass Eye: Elizabeth Bishop on How Poetry Pretends Life into Reality →
I enrolled at the University College of the Cariboo in 2002. What I didn’t know then was that I would be participating in the evolution of a college into a university. This year, 2015 marks the 10th anniversary of Thompson Rivers University. Having been present during TRU’s infancy and now surviving it’s pre-teen growing pains, … Continue reading I’m a TRU Baby →
My wife and I often take field walks on Sunday to assess the state of the pasture, the grass, the woods, the water–in other words the full catastrophe that has been this winter. And, of course, we wanted to hear the peepers at the Gates of Dawn. In the wetlands by Bacon Creek we … Continue reading I Keen; Therefore, I Am. →
With the ‘end-that-isn’t-an-end’ of this YouShow gig, I’ll be moving my blogging over to my main site at merelearning.ca. Hope to see you there. Big thanks to Alan and Brian for their work!
The sarvis tree’s buds are swelling. It will flower first even before the willow sends out its green diadems. But before all this I have a vinyl recording of “Appalachian Spring” conducted by Aaron Copland that I begin to listen to over and over while I read the “Spring” chapter in Thoreau’s Walden. You listen, … Continue reading Appalachian Spring in Kentucky →
It was very hard to create this and know it is my last one using this grand tool. So I addressed the issue of hope within. I hope you enjoy. I hope not against hope but for hope. Thanks for watching.
As I’ve said before, I’m an all or nothing kind of gal. My bestie is my biggest champion but never shies away from giving me a reality check. When describing my personality today she said: “You are like me….but, 100x me in every way… <smarter<better athlete<better body<harder worker<cares more about life <masters degree <bigger stress … Continue reading Why WordPress makes me want to cry →
The world around us is filled with extravagant beauty and being from British Columbia has only opened my eyes to the wonders of camp sites, hiking trails, and waterfalls. The outdoors is one of my favourite places to be and adventure is one of many methods I use to learn and grow as an individual. […]