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Punching Through Weakness: Karate Do Not

Posted on December 21, 2024December 21, 2024 by Translate Reality

Karate has been an interesting journey that perfectly aligned in my life when it needed to. I continue to do yoga as a regular practice and live an active lifestyle. However, when I began Karate, I also found a community, a person who was crazy enough to coach me and a new series of skills…

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Karate Everlasting – Reckless Yogi to Reckless Ninja

Posted on July 6, 2023December 21, 2023 by Translate Reality

I have actively participated in some form of athletics throughout my life. I only let go of exercise completely during my pregnancy when it took a hard left, and there was no returning from the pit of darkness and pain. Diving across medical boundaries like a flying squirrel, tormenting even the most experienced neurologists around me;…

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Ordering 1000 Jumbo Rolls of Toilet Paper

Posted on June 15, 2023December 21, 2023 by Translate Reality

The pandemic was filled with interesting, surprising, and fascinating human behaviour. People hoarded toilet paper, had public freak outs of varying calibres, and witnessed a secondary global disaster called ‘Zoom Fails.‘ During the toilet paper hoarding wave, I chose a more strategic approach instead of fighting off zombies at the grocery store for the last…

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Boler Life – The Learning Cliff

Posted on April 29, 2023December 21, 2023 by Translate Reality

Boler Life has become real life and I couldn’t be happier. I’ve just finished my first adventure and it was filled with learning. Learning so very much that I did not hit the learning curve quite yet; I hit the learning cliff many times. For the record, I have never towed anything, camped (except a…

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Cutting Onions – No Tears, No Troubles

Posted on April 28, 2023May 2, 2023 by Translate Reality

Have you ever cut an onion and experienced a few tears? Perhaps more than a few? Cutting onions is a very tumultuous activity. It can make even the most rough and tough person crumble into a sobbing kitchen disaster destined to never to cook again. In this Life Hack, I will provide step by step…

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Grease a pan. Save the Earth

Posted on April 26, 2023May 2, 2023 by Translate Reality

Greasing a pan or cookie sheet is common practice. A lot of people bake and typically, greasing a pan is a part of that process. I really should preface this with a disclaimer that I am a terrible cook.  This Life Hack will work for you, not because I’ve practiced it, but because it’s logical…

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How to use your Whole Brain

Posted on April 26, 2023May 2, 2023 by Translate Reality

We only use 10% of our brain. It is an insurmountable waste of potential and space. After you read this article, you will know how to use your whole brain. 100% of it. Guaranteed or you get your money back. Attempt to recall any biology course you have ever taken. My suggestion is high school…

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Author. ✍️ Blogger 🌪️ Single Mother by Choice 👧 YouTube Channel. Winnipeg Epoxy @winnipegepoxy

@gardenworker could you make Beethoven a pillow ca @gardenworker could you make Beethoven a pillow case? He’s asking here in this video for you. Please Grammie. 🐶
Somebody who I will not name whose name starts wit Somebody who I will not name whose name starts with B went to the vet today to get their nails clipped and chickened out big time.

Somebody might be 148 lbs of chicken little. 148 and growing…
I can’t just abandon the pens. I can’t just abandon the pens.
This is the sign 🥱😄❤️ This is the sign
🥱😄❤️
Happy new year 🎊 wishing you a 2026 of interest Happy new year 🎊 wishing you a 2026 of interesting decisions with happy outcomes ☺️✨
Oh do we ever need to get those nails cut, Beethoven 😂 🐶
Happy 9 months to my dinosaur. I love you and all Happy 9 months to my dinosaur. I love you and all of the space you take up in my life.  I have all the time for you, bu bu boo face. 🐾🦴🐶🫶❤️
My little baby is 8 years old today! She is my fav My little baby is 8 years old today!
She is my favourite person in the entire world.
She has the best sense of humour and is the cutest little being. She is brave. She is honest. She is incredibly empathetic. She teaches me things every day and she gives me something to smile about every single day. That’s one smile per day that I wouldn’t have without her. She is my main squeeze, my mini, my little tiny sparkle of joy.

I also can’t effing believe that I kept a human being alive for eight years  not eight months but eight goddamn years feeding her watering her the whole thing. Eight years guys. Yep.

Wishing for nothing more than more time with this little person. Sending her all the love on her eighth birthday and thank you from the bottom of my heart to the village that has helped me love and raise Mila. 🥰 They say it takes a village, and I am so grateful that I truly have one. You know who you are. Thank you.

8!!
Toven Mila Mom Christmas FairyTales and Tails Mani Toven Mila Mom Christmas FairyTales and Tails Manitoba Mini tree. 🎄
Cheer. I love. Well done, friends. Cheer. I love. Well done, friends.
Just one paw at a time. Just one paw at a time.
Wednesday Addams. Age 7. 🖤 Wednesday Addams. Age 7. 🖤
One minute of Beethoven’s life that you will nev One minute of Beethoven’s life that you will never get back. Thanks for watching. And yes, that is a Christmas tree ornament around his neck. My daughter put it there and I think it looks festive.
#interestinglives #6monthsold
Last weekend at the campground. Winterized. 💪 M Last weekend at the campground. Winterized. 💪
Mila and I have been camping every summer since she was one. Yes, I camped with a baby. Unsure why. 🤦🏽‍♀️ Anyway, this year we parked the Boler and bought a seasonal site. Best decision ever.
Long beautiful nights with clear starry skies.
Happy days with friends. Not just bears….but humans. It’s amazing.
Happy dirty busy tired kid. Playing all day except when in need of food or sleep. Living like it used to be.  More free. A family of parents in the campground.
Biking. Kayaking. Adopting Toven. Watching Mila and Toven explore earth.
The trees. The robins. The slow changes.
Outdoor showers.
A community. A big big happy loving family of seasonal super campers. All the love.

🌳🪾💫🍂☀️🛶🐶
Dogs are good for your health. Since Toven came in Dogs are good for your health. Since Toven came into my life, I have been outside much more, I have walked much more, and I have loved much more. He is so big and brings that much happiness. A big fuzzy clumsy ball of happiness. Here’s to six months of being on this earth, tiny Toven. ❤️🥂💞 🐶
When you’re 5 months but have Dino legs. ❤️🦖
make it unique ✨ make it unique ✨
Today is a day for suicide awareness. It is someth Today is a day for suicide awareness. It is something that needs space in conversation. We can’t be scared. Because we’re losing people to their suffering. Death from suffering happens all the time.
I had a teacher who died from his suffering and he told me one time, it is the suffering itself that wants to die. It’s not the person. The suffering is so profound that it wants to let go. Be done. Why wouldn’t it? Shouldn’t that suffering have a voice before it takes its life, along with the constellation of beauty that makes up a person?
I wrote a number of articles on my blog about death from suffering. I watched someone die in my arms. I lost friends, teachers, almost myself to death from suffering. It’s very hard to write about and speak about. But I’m doing it because if we don’t look directly at the most difficult parts of life, we won’t solve our most crucial problems. As I heard this week at the Future of Sport conference from an Elder, courage gives you the ability to make good change during the most difficult of circumstances.

A - I wish you peace every day. I remember your eyes.
J - I’m supporting the run and I still cry when I see your photo. Miss you, man.
M- you taught me a great deal in your life and your death. Thank you for your teachings.
J- I’m so sorry you had to leave. You had a community and somehow I hope you feel that connection still.

Me - I’m glad you made it, Nadia. You made a kid and a life! We’re going to stay. We’re. Going. To. Stay. We promise. Me and little me. We stayin’. 

❤️
So many people before me have fought this battle. So many people before me have fought this battle. So many people alongside me have fought this battle. 
So many people are fighting this battle.
In the future, I hope no one will fight this battle.
The mini is in grade 3! I cannot believe I made th The mini is in grade 3!
I cannot believe I made this tiny little person and now she is a full and whole human being with fashion style, incessant questions, and a hilariously wonderful personality. She’s my favourite little teammate in life.
I asked her what she was excited for her about school and she said her friends. I asked her what her favourite subject was that she would be going into and she said she was looking forward to talking to her friends in school. Then I asked her if she was going to join choir again and she said it depends what my friends do. Finally, I asked her to tell me one thing that she was excited about other than her friends, and so she went through her friends’ names one at a time.
it is safe to say her social life is primetime right now and I support that completely. #fashion #happiestpuppy #squeezytoy
What does prevention in sport look like? How can w What does prevention in sport look like? How can we protect against child maltreatment?

A child is not the canary. Sport needs a prevention-based system, not a response-based system.

In mining, they used to carry canaries underground: if toxic gas was present, the bird would die first, warning the miners. It’s a brutal system of warning.
Someone (or in this case, some child) has to suffer before others are protected. In a crisis, such as the sport crisis in Canada, we respond AND prevent. We make sure this crisis doesn’t continue occurring or occur again.

#nocanary
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