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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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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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Waiting For The Tide To Come In
©IBKimage2018 Sometimes in our transitions, the boat just doesn’t float. It’s tied up and waiting to go out again but until the water provides the lift the vessel waits. I took this image on a recent trip to Ireland as I was waiting for a small excursion boat to take us back from a lovely…
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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…
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Something Old is New Again
We often press forward,crossing items off of the proverbial “bucket list”, reaching for the next level in our fitness, clearing out those numerous e-mails before we leave our desk, learning how to use a new tool, and so on. In our culture what’s new is constant new offerings every day. And yet, it’s also wonderful…
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Transitions
Good Morning, For awhile now I have been offering insight and encouragement in life’s transitions, through this blog and perhaps it’s been my life’s work for a long time. As I was moving some books from an old to new position this week, I picked up the 25th Anniversary Edition of William Bridges 2004 book:…
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New Beginnings
Dear Readers: I left you here in the conservatory at the Denver Botanic Garden when I posted a blog on July 31,2015. In that last blog I said: “Having recently experienced several non routine events in some areas of my life, I’d like to offer an insight.…
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It’s Your Turn Update.
In my last blog I supplied the image, and I asked you dear readers to supply the words in response to this question. What thoughts about transition come to mind for you as you reflect on this image? Here are some of your thoughts. “Some images…