Sustainable
We receive a lot of advice about how to be healthy, how to reduce our carbon footprint, how to save the planet – but what is truly sustainable?
Category: Reality Bites
Slices of real life condensed into bite-size chunks.
A Song of ‘Ceuticals
The world of pharmaceuticals used to treat mental illness is a tough one to navigate. So I made up an easy song to help you understand and remember.
Seeing Beyond the Lens
We interpret the world through the lens of our own life experience. This is a good thing, because it means that we learn from what we’ve lived and use that information to understand what’s happening and make increasingly wise decisions. It’s also a bad thing, because it means we assume …
The Racist
I hate ‘they’ I hate ‘them’ I hate ‘you people’ When will we say ‘humans’ When will we say ‘family’ I hate black I hate white I hate yellow When will we say ‘our blood is red’ When will we say ‘our bile is green’ I am racist …
It’s All in the Nose
I recently read that out of 7,000 people aged 16 to 30, about 50% would rather lose their sense of smell than access to technology like laptops and cell phones. So, while you are blissfully unaware of your house burning down around you because you can’t smell the smoke, at …
All the Colours of the Rainbow (A Look at Dissociation)
Blue is cold and calculating. He sits behind a steel desk and turns in his swivel chair to regard interruptions with disdain. He is logical and precise and can’t stand the shambolic incompetency of emotions. Or people who let emotions overcome logic. Humans are inefficient in the extreme, which …
Why Can’t I Get What I Want?
Why can’t I just get exactly what I want? That’s not too much to ask, is it? So, we’re renovating this place because our lives are never complicated enough. Naturally, I have VISION. This mostly due to hours browsing Pinterest and Home magazine. Sadly, my vision is not shared …
The Presence of Pain
I feel like falling today. Off my bike as I career down a dusty mountain path, dry plants slapping me as I fly past. Fearlessly fast. Or off a skateboard down a long, winding pass. (amazing the amount of trust we put in these flimsy constructs of …
Keep it Simple, Stupid – The Joys of Minimalism
So, after spending the last 6 weeks clearing out my mother-in-law’s 5 storage units, I felt a not-so-sudden urge to simplify my own life even more. In recent years, I’ve become increasingly fond of the movement towards minimalism. Dealing with the results of a lifetime of hoarding caused this …
It’s a Scam
Do you have any idea how many scams are running at any given time? Many. LOTS. I discovered this due to the fact that my current project is redistributing my 83-year-old mother-in-law’s accumulated possessions. This because her 563 storage units are costing her more than the value of the …
