Another year full of challenges, but my daughter survived.
A personal reflection on finding unexpected love and joy after embracing solitude, and the liberating effects of letting go of social media and embracing real connections.
Today is Bell Let's Talk Day, a day focused on mental health awareness. For the past few years, I have been using it to talk about a theme for the next year.
Another challenging year, but coming out stronger than in the past.
Nearly two months later after planning to avoid Twitter, lead me to question the value of social media in my life. Here is what I discovered about the absence and return.
For Klosterman, the nineties began with the release of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ album, released in September 1991; for me, the easiest marker would be the fall of 1989 when I moved to Whitehorse, Yukon from Regina, Saskatchewan, at age 10.
Today happens to be Bell Let’s Talk day in Canada. I thought it was an appropriate time to talk about where I am at mentally and where I would like to see myself go in this coming year. The framework for this discussion is around the concept of a theme for the year or season.
The predictions I make in these birthday posts have almost become a jinx of Kylie’s life, and my own.
A tough year with more challenges ahead as COVID rears its ugly head once again. Through it all, the fire still burns within me. The last thing I want is for it to be extinguished. For the next year, I’m going to keep this fire burning within me and keep it growing. Burn, baby, burn. — 41 Today is my birthday. For the past eleven birthdays, I have been sitting down to write about the last year and reflect on what has happened. Some have been easier to write than others, but this year I don’t fe
Two podcast episodes with Ryan Holiday about the media that are worth listening to.
It’s been awhile. It would be easy to create excuses for the lack of writing, but the honest truth comes down to me not making the time and adapting to the changes that occur in life. I had intended to write this before now. I woke up with a major headache earlier in the week from the forest fire smoke sinking into the Okanagan valley from Kamloops and other areas of the Interior. Last week, during the most somber Canada Day I have ever experienced, work appointments get shifted to first thing
The days are blurring together for me lately. It’s hard to tell when one day ends, a new one begins.
The connections between building an infrastructure in your daily life and the book Atomic Habits by James Clear.
A nice walk downtown, starting spring break the usual way through Kasugai Gardens and along the boardwalk. Nice to see spring is just around the corner here with crocuses and tulips started to come up. One of the many reasons why I love living in Kelowna [http://www.kelownainfo.ca "Information on Kelowna"].
Complacency and comfort are poison pills for the creative mind. - Jason Fried
Things change so quickly around Kelowna that it is hard to keep up with what is going on.
After getting her own phone last year for her birthday, she has spent more time discovering things for herself than in past years. It’s something that I had written about before, and likely something I’ll write again next year, but this year really was a step up from a year ago. — Turning 10 If past me had only known what was going to happen in 2020. It was a tough year for everyone, but I sympathize with the school aged kids. The kids who were home-schooled beforehand were much better prepared
Last year, I wrote about walking into the fire. It seems like such a long time ago after what has happened in the world. For me, it feels even longer. Needless to say, it has not been a good year.
Went down a bit of a rabbit hole this morning.
