JohnathonV
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JVS Consulting. Former Chief of Staff Squamish Nation, President International Council of Design, and President Design Professionals of Canada.
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Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
July 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
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The Wisdom of No Escape – a Buddhist perspective on the art of letting go and how to befriend your inner life www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/19/p...
The Wisdom of No Escape: Pema Chödrön on Gentleness, the Art of Letting Go, and How to Befriend Your Inner Life
“Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.”
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July 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The Wisdom of No Escape – a Buddhist perspective on the art of letting go and how to befriend your inner life www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/19/p...
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I'm reading this book for my long-running book club focusing on sci-fi and fantasy. We read both old books and new and after years of doing it, we're on the verge of quitting new books. Old books are often not as well-written (this one is, though), but new books disappoint us by being boring af.
May 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I'm reading this book for my long-running book club focusing on sci-fi and fantasy. We read both old books and new and after years of doing it, we're on the verge of quitting new books. Old books are often not as well-written (this one is, though), but new books disappoint us by being boring af.
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"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it."
An Ursula K. Le Guin classic:
An Ursula K. Le Guin classic:
Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation
“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and…
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February 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it."
An Ursula K. Le Guin classic:
An Ursula K. Le Guin classic:
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Time for Hannah Arendt's enduring case for the power of defiant goodwill and the art of beginning afresh
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt, the Power of Defiant Goodwill, and the Art of Beginning Afresh
“It is when the experience of powerlessness is at its most acute, when history seems at its most bleak, that the determination to think like a human being, creatively, courageously, and compl…
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January 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Time for Hannah Arendt's enduring case for the power of defiant goodwill and the art of beginning afresh
Sage words and perspective on character.
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus, writing at the peak of a world war, on strength of character and how to save our sanity in difficult times
Albert Camus, writing at the peak of a world war, on strength of character and how to save our sanity in difficult times
Albert Camus on Strength of Character and How to Save Our Sanity in Difficult Times
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
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January 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Sage words and perspective on character.
Hello Blue Skies, good morning.
November 15, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Hello Blue Skies, good morning.