Category Archives: mind shifts

Doubling Down on Fear

Posted on April 11, 2024 by kyra333

I recently joined a writing group and had a turn to bring a project for feedback. It can be scary and vulnerable for anyone to solicit feedback from peers, at least it was for me. These peers are much more … Continue reading →

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Inside Out

Posted on February 14, 2024 by kyra333

Aging gracefully is pushed by advertisers as a gold standard  which they aim at Boomers, Gen Xers, and certainly catching the attention of nervous Millennials in its wake. The beauty, wellness, financial planning, insurance, including after care for pet, house plants, … Continue reading →

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Veronica Mars to the Rescue

Posted on November 9, 2023 by kyra333

The cognitive gymnastics to problem solve real problems much less the fictional problems is exhausting and can lead to hours and sometimes days down a deep warren of rabbit holes that go nowhere. Continue reading →

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Good Shit

Posted on September 14, 2023 by kyra333

What I didn’t understand until much later in life is all the shit is ultimately good shit. Bad things happen yes, but our growth from those things can be excellent fertilizer for change, for redemption, for later happiness. Tragedies are the seeds of resilience. Not all bad things garner these results, but many can. Continue reading →

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Priorities and Flawed Magical Thinking

Posted on April 13, 2023 by kyra333

I know that at the end of our lives, we most regret what we didn’t do, not what we did do. That we didn’t take the risks we wanted, loved the way we wanted to love. We need to be worried less about disappointing others and more worried about disappointing ourselves.  Continue reading →

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Namib Desert and Stressing Out

Posted on March 14, 2023 by kyra333

Waiting was not an easy feat. Staying calm in the storm of uncertainty, slipping in and out of trying to find a solution to a not yet known end result was crazy making. The added bonus to this roller coaster was struggling not to spiral down and catastrophizing menu of what could go wrong. Continue reading →

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Good Beginnings

Posted on February 15, 2023 by kyra333

What is a good beginning? It’s private, it’s slow, it’s a dawning of an idea, a change of mind, a different choice. It starts as an itch so slight as to think we have imagined this idea, impulse or shadow thought. Then it takes root, germinates, and slowly if not fussed with comes into a slight outwardly shift. Continue reading →

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Baby Corn and the Long Dark N

Posted on January 1, 2023 by kyra333

The conversation started with an update from my doctor about me over achieving my numbers on my cholesterol test and not in a good way. It seems no matter how little meat and dairy I eat, or how many beans … Continue reading →

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In Celebration of Old and New

Posted on December 15, 2022 by kyra333

As we get close to the year’s end, we see a parade of events consisting of the good, the bad and the ugly of the year as we close it out. We have anticipation of a new year and how … Continue reading →

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When there is nothing in the tank

Posted on October 13, 2022 by kyra333

To try to make something, out of nothing. That is the thread of creativity: to make something new out of what you think, feel or have lying about and what’s lying about is mostly the junk in your head and heart. These are all the same practices I use to build a life and so do you.  Continue reading →

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