Wisdom

Photo of the Day: Shoreditch Cool

August 12, 2011

A friend once told me that you can live a thousand lives in London and still not discover every nook and cranny of the place. Sure enough, I was reminded of this a few days ago after a work meeting when we wandered into Shoreditch, a too-cool-for-me neighborhood in East London. There’s a new, industrial, […]






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London Life: A Walk in the Park

July 13, 2011

Septembers were my favourite. The walk home from work took an hour and required a diagonal cut through Hyde Park. Belgravia to Notting Hill. Autumn had never felt more grande than during that evening as I looked down the long lane of tall maples that hugged Park Lane. The crispy crunch of red orange leaves […]






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Reflections on this Fourth of July

July 4, 2011

On the last eve of this 4th of July weekend, there sits a lump in my throat as the pop of fireworks reverberate around our neighbourhood. God Bless America is blasting on TV, the screen splattered in sprinkles of red and blue as Washington DC and NYC ring in this Independence Day. I am overcome […]






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Photo of the Day: November in Macau

June 16, 2011

While on an 11 day trip to China, my friend Jalin and I decided to spend a few days exploring the island of Macau. From the bustle of Hong Kong’s majestic harbor we ferried our way to Macau’s lazy tropical shores. Colonized by the Portuguese, it felt more like Mediterranean Europe than South East Asia. […]






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Photo of the Day: A Slice of Daily Life in Dubrovnik

June 12, 2011

When we travel, the simplest bits of daily life become magical somehow. The stray dog on the street, the fruit stands in the market, clothes hanging to dry on balconies and windows. Sometimes it takes a journey half way around the world to help us see the beauty in ordinary things. Travel is wonderful that […]






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Invested in a little bit of Gratitude today

June 11, 2011

I treated myself to some retail therapy today. Sometimes it’s not about the “stuff” that you get but the time spent with yourself on a long Saturday afternoon.  Alone time for me has been rare lately. I found this little treasure in a bookshop. Leather, green, tall and skinny. It’s an investment in grateful awareness.






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Something New

June 5, 2011

This is one of my favourite fortune cookie messages to date. I discovered it weeks ago when we ordered Chinese food for lunch at work. It’s the kind of fortune that can be applied over and over, every single day. Sometimes, we have to be sensitive to the little hints that the universe is communicating […]






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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

April 22, 2011

This past weekend we took on the monumental task of cleaning out our storage facility. A lifetime’s worth of “stuff” piled into a 10×10 space that we’ve been renting for $170 dollars a month. With gas prices pushing $5/gallon, it was time to think hard about eliminating unnecessary expenses. These types of clean up projects […]






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