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10 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Going Against the Curr... · 1 reply · +1 points
I've mostly been dreaming about getting on trains, then discovering that the group I am meant to be supervising are no longer with me and I may be on the wrong train!
10 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Going Against the Curr... · 3 replies · +1 points
As I am doing so, my own dreams are taking on some very interesting colours.
Bravo, Jean. Lovely and more than that, helpful;
11 years ago @ The Masquerade Crew - Has Amazon taken down ... · 1 reply · +2 points
Lots of reviews on Amazon read like school book reports, detailing the plot etc and going over what the synopsis and blurb actually said. I find reading these ones miserable going because they don't tell me anything useful. Author reviews tend to be much more interesting than this sort.
I do wonder if this will just die down or escalate.
Watching this space.
11 years ago @ The Masquerade Crew - Have your book sales p... · 0 replies · +1 points
I've never made a book free (though I have said on my blog I'm happy to send a copy pdf to someone who genuinely cannot afford to buy one) and don't intend to. It's counter intuitive to me and I do very much wonder if people are currently buying less because they have so much free already.
But for myself, the odd thing I pick up free, unless it's something I urgently wanted to read anyway, tends to wait along while till I've gone through the things I paid money for.
11 years ago @ http://www.prdaily.com/ - 3 groups of people who... · 0 replies · +1 points
I teach English to overseas students, and when I mark written work I often see students lose confidence because of the amount of red ink and have to explain that I am correcting everything but that I feel the body of their work is excellent, that I am interested in their ideas more than their spelling but I would not be doing my job if I did not correct errors of grammar etc.
A refreshing take, thank you.
12 years ago @ Beyond Growth - Overdosing on Awesome · 0 replies · +1 points
My evil ex-boss used to pepper her conversations with it.
I rest my case.
My recent post Guesting elsewhere today the grit at the heart of the pearl
13 years ago @ The Daily Awe - I'm an empath...so now... · 2 replies · +1 points
I have a problem with sleep anyway, so maybe there is a limit to what can come through.
13 years ago @ The Daily Awe - I'm an empath...so now... · 0 replies · +1 points
And the other harsh thing is seeing things "remotely" that you are not trained or prepared to deal with. Many years ago during the Bosnian conflict, a friend of mine served as ambulance crew dealing with atrocities: for several months, even though I didn't know that's where he was and what he was doing, I saw snippets of what he saw during his days during my nightmares. It was only when he came home on leave I discovered what had been going on. At the time, I genuinely thought I might have been going insane.
That's where prayer comes in to help deal with this stuff. I probably would be in a mental institution otherwise by now.
13 years ago @ The Daily Awe - I'm an empath...so now... · 1 reply · +1 points
Knowing yourself too; to be able to distinguish when an emotion is not your own and belongs to someone else.
Not saying it's easy, because it isn't. I am still working on surviving it. The hardest aspects now are the ones when insights come at a distance, or via dreams or visions and it's essential to work out how much needs action taking and how much just needs accepting.
13 years ago @ Heresy Corner - Sympathy for Stephen · 0 replies · +1 points