Author: brendajohima
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Snippets of Wisdom
Snippets of Wisdom Today marks day ONE of a brand new feature that will be on my website regularly, and I am calling it “Snippets of Wisdom.” These will be tiny little sound clips of me speaking or reading, most often things that I have created and written myself, but sometimes will include writings by…
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Creativity Is BIG Business
WOW. (This is a re-post of an article I wrote in 2007) Actually I think it may have been 2006, but it was published online in 2007. This was part of my Creative Nudge business, which is no more, as I closed it. I think that I may have been ahead of my time, and…
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Are The Trees Far Wiser?
While walking in the woods I could not help but wonder, are the trees far wiser than we? Always Love, Brenda
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we do not need words to know one another
Today while walking through the woods, I met a little boy with his nanny. He was different … and as some might judge, disabled. Yet I did not see him in that way because he had the ability to deeply connect with eye contact with myself and with my standard poodle Teddy; more so…
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being a beginner is a good thing
i may just be up to something new. a learning curve is a good thing. being a beginner is a good thing. not caring what others think about you when you are starting out is crucial. catching up on lost time is near impossible. regret gets you nowhere. starting over gets you everywhere. always…
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Commit
I’m sitting in my car in the dark under a street lamp in a shopping centre parking lot. This is my last stop before I finally get to head home and relax, after driving too many hundreds of kilometres up-Island and then down and back up, on Vancouver Island. Here’s a little hint about what…
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44:40 : I Strongly Urge People To Have a Daily Blog
The Daily Blog In listening to two of my favourite people online, at the 44:40 point in this Chase Jarvis video interview with Seth Godin, you will hear Seth say, “I strongly urge people to have a blog; a daily blog.” I watched this video a few times, when it was published in 2016,…
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The Day Jann Arden Came To My House (in a dream)
In My Dreams Fact. 8 AM’ish and this JUST happened. Too funny. I just had a dream that Jann Arden came into my basement suite. (I don’t live in one) She was talking in the phone about booking a trip to Nashville to someone in the room next door. The room was attached to my suite…
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I Disappoint People Every Day
Disappointing People and Disappointing People Many many years ago (maybe about 24 years?) when I was going through some challenging times, I was chatting with someone that I really admired, and she told me, “Brenda, I disappoint people every day.” Of course, I was kind of shocked, as I saw this person as a leader, and one of the…
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An Old Blog Post in Drafts
I pulled this out of the drafts folder from long long ago, it’s maybe years ago that wrote it? It was time to click publish: OK. So you go 2 a party. You sit there. You wait. Maybe even stand against a wall, or look out the window, or drink wine or eat cheese and…