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Reading: The Woman who Changed her Brain

The Woman who Changed her Brain Barbara Arrowsmith -Young.

This book is about 1/3 biography, and 2/3 glowing self-recommendation for an educational system pioneered by Ms. Arrowsmith.  Internet research find critics but none, surprisingly  that I can find, among the former students of the program (unlike, for instance, Landmark Education.)

The rest of this journal entry is pretty disorganized, consisting mostly of notes on the content I want to think and write more about, since it's due back at the library tomorrow.

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MARATHON Goal setting day!

OK.  Today was massive.  SO MUCH goal setting.

I can't decide whether to post my resulting top 10 goals here, or just post the monthly goals, and see if y'all can guess where I'm going with them.

Here's this month's goals:
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Setting Intentions....

Goal setting and re-affirming those goals can be done in part using the concept of a sankalpa.  In essense, the takeaway from this article (already something I do in real life) is this:  In effect you simply invest in the process, rather than clinging to the outcomes.

http://theyogalunchbox.co.nz/2009/…

To help figure out which intentions to set, I intend to try out this system, recommended highly by a podcast host I follow.

http://www.bestyearyet.com/WhatIs/…

Fun times.
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Sabotabby? (Awesome books that aren't for Nice White Ladies.)

I have this mentor who I love, who's kids, both girls, are 9 and 14.  These kids know that money doesn't grow on trees and they are Canadian kids, with Japanese and Canadian First Nations heritage.

One of them was telling me about a book she was reading at school, and realized that these kids are old enough for all of the classic kids books we've been holding on to for so long. Madeleine l'Engle?  Monica Hughes?  Gordon Korman?  Narnia?  Diane Duane?

And then I had this thought. And I don't know if I'm right or wrong, so I wanted to check with you, my amazing and socially conscious compatriots.  Are all these amazing books written for little white kids about little white kids?  Throw in some assumptions about secure housing and familial situations for good measure, maybe.  Or worse, through in some insecure family situations in which children are none the less having all their needs met and living in comfort and security - and whining about it.  So there's both the question of whether these books would be of interest to these girls... and the question of whether, if they were, they would be helping or hindering.

Sabotabby, I know you teach kids, maybe older kids, but still kids, with a wide variety of backgrounds.  What do you think of our "childhood classics"?  Anything you'd recommend for recreational reading that I might not of thought of?  Anything I've listed above that is actually more appropriate then I worry it might be?

It's a piss off that being a white feminist is still tantamount to being a race and class ignoramus.   Worse yet when something like favorite childhood novels reach out from the grave to shake priviledge in your face.  =(

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Ride for Heart - 2011 Bicycle Ride to end Heart Disease

Hey guys:

I'm participating in the "Ride for Heart" on Sunday to raise money for the Heart and Stroke foundation.  I'm still shy of my minimum fund-raising goal.

Would you be willing to sponsor me?  Even $5 helps!

Help save lives!  Click here to donate!


To spice things up a bit, if I don't hit my goal time - 50KM in 2.5hrs - I will be matching donations (up to $120 total, pro-rated) to a matched health-related charity of your choice.  (For those who are interested, I currently average 18km/hr on a 10km training ride, so this FEELS like a stretch goal for me.)  I will also accept "Super Street Fire", Site 3's awesome art project, as a beneficiary for charitable matching.  Just leave a note in the comments here naming your charity of choice.