Creating, one of the many joys of Freedom

Aside from my recent spate of posts here at the Mutant mother ship, I have, in the past two days, also embarked on a fresh effort to do some blogging related to my professional pursuits. I have been inspired, encouraged and enabled by some of my esteemed colleagues, my love of blogs in general, my [...]

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even more lessing

Clearly, I am on a roll. Aside from dispatching my television, caffeine addiction, and material possessions, I also recently embarked on a desktop purge.
The cleansing of my desktop was spurred by a GTD-related blog post (from Zen Habits), which emphasized the importance of clearing your workspace of clutter. It championed the virtue of removing the [...]

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less is more

Whether due to circumstance or nature, I cannot say for sure, but I am a big believer in ‘traveling light’. I feel better when I shed the extra baggage that I - like you - pick up along the path of life. Material possessions, habits, toxins, emotions - all can become weights that hold us [...]

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I love this!

What Every Woman Should Have and Know
By Maya Angelou
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own
even if she never wants to or needs to…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….
something perfect to wear
if the employer or date of her dreams
wants to see her in an hour…
A WOMAN [...]

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neither coffee nor caffeine shall rule my world

I think it was about, I don’t know, four or five months ago that I did an herbal digestive cleanse. I used to do these cleanses regularly, many years ago, as far back as my college days (!). Prior to this latest cleanse, it had been probably a couple of years.
One of the reasons I [...]

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teevee free

Me personally, I have a number of vices, not all of which i care to discuss - much less blog about - in public. One of my many vices is my appreciation of the Television Arts. My appreciation is - though not limitless - quite deep. I enjoy many schools of the teevee arts, [...]

Filed under: consumption, creation, media, organic summer, personal