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Things Are Not Always Clear At The Time
A year ago a friend and I arrived at Dublin Airport in Ireland and looked to meet up with our driver Ted, our navigator for the next 10 days, as we visited previously selected sites courtesy of the Irish Tour Company that we worked with. Since we were both independent travelers and had different interests…
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Making Room
©IBKimage2017 Happy New Year 2019 My purpose with this blog and in general is to offer insight and encouragement in life’s transitions. To do that this time I’m remembering a time that I was a professional organizer When I started I helped people organize their offices, houses, garages … by helping them to set up…
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Thank You!
Hello dear readers. For several weeks I have been trying to process great abundance in my personal life and grief at the state of affairs as we struggle to name something that doesn’t seem right in our nation,no matter where we are on the idealogical spectrum. So, once again, I remember why I’m doing this…
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Revisiting
Tomorrow is September 1st and the beginning of a season of new work. I’ve taken six weeks to revisit most aspects of my personal and creative life and how that might look in the coming year. More specifically I’ve been asking myself a lot of questions and taking the necessary time to discover (or discard)…
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Move On
In 2003 Roger von Oech created a set of cards called: “Innovative Whack Pack … 60 Creativity Strategies to Provoke and Inspire Your Thinking.” On one side of the card is an insight from Heraclitus, who according to von Oesch was “the world’s first creativity teacher … on the other side a strategy “inspired by…
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Distortion and Delight
©2018 IBKimage It’s so easy to allow the distortions of reality to become the reality that we often proceed from … whether in major transitions or the familiar repeated patterns of our daily habits. External and internal conditions can draw us to false conclusions. Years ago someone told me a story about a fear of…
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Change vs. Transition
I’ve been thinking a lot about the book TRANSITIONS first written by William Bridges in his mid-forties and then a second edition when he turned 70. He doesn’t think he made the point clear enough in the first edition re: change/distinction. “Change is your move to a new city or your shift to a new…
