Category Archives: Life Strategies

What Percent Are You?

Posted on October 14, 2011 by CarolWiebe

We are the 1 percent.

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Vulnerability

Posted on September 26, 2011 by CarolWiebe

My son sent a link to me yesterday, saying that a Ted Talk he listened to, given by Brené Brown, had affected him deeply. Opening to Vulnerability I listened to it, and was struck, immediately, by three things: 1–You can’t pick … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Creativiity, Digital Art, Inspiration, Life Strategies | 2 Comments

I also play the shell game

Posted on March 5, 2011 by CarolWiebe

Julianne’s comments are “off,” so I will tell you, here, how stimulated I was by her post “Shell Game.” Julianne writes like an angel, which is my way of saying that her words give wings to thoughts and impressions, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Artists, Inspiration, Life Strategies | Tagged acceptance, aging, Byron Katie, imperfection, Julianne Fuchs-Musgrave, loving what is, perfection, shell game | 6 Comments

Nothing Will Change Unless We Change

Posted on February 7, 2011 by CarolWiebe

Dance, sing, pray, make art . . . . to heal yourself and our Mother Earth.

Posted in Health, Inspiration, Life Strategies, Videos | Tagged education, healing, International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, Mother Earth, prayer, YouTube | 6 Comments

Your Money or Your Life

Posted on February 2, 2011 by CarolWiebe

Years ago I read a book called Your Money or Your Life, by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin. It was a life changing book, for me, as it opened my eyes to the fact that the money I made represented how … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Books/DVDs, Creativiity, Inspiration, Life Strategies, Writers | Tagged cancer, choice, discipline, freedom, hyper-choice, Joe Dominguez, Liberating Limits, limits, money, spiritual path, Vicki Robin, Your Money or Your Life | 3 Comments

Rats As Heroes

Posted on December 7, 2010 by CarolWiebe

Watch this phenomenal video and marvel that this man has found a “simple” solution to a complex and horrific problem. Landmines continue to destroy millions of lives years after. Bart Weetjens has trained Giant Pouched Rats to effectively detect explosives in … Continue reading →

Posted in Inspiration, Life Strategies, Videos | Tagged Alexis Bloom, APOPO, Bart Weetjens, bubonic plague, hero, landmines, rats, rats as heros, TED.com | 2 Comments

Four Years Later . . .

Posted on December 1, 2010 by CarolWiebe

At the end of this month, it will be four years since I started writing in Silverspring Studio. I can’t say I instigated the blog; my son did that for me. It took me a while to get used to “putting … Continue reading →

Posted in Carol's Writing, Life Strategies | Tagged Add to List, comfortable, databases, epiphany, four year anniversary, hypnagogic state, POrta Potty, PortaPortal, rut, sufficient | 4 Comments

Display Your Rights In Unlikely (and formerly hidden) Places

Posted on November 25, 2010 by CarolWiebe

Fourth amendment underwear is showing up, here and there. It would make you laugh if it wasn’t so sad. You can actually buy them at Cargo Collective, where they insist: We found metallic type that could, in theory, show up on TSA … Continue reading →

Posted in Humour, Life Strategies | Tagged airport scanners, onto the boxer, outside the box, privacy, privates, the 4th amendment, underwear | 3 Comments

Supra-Sex Leads To Co-Creation

Posted on November 15, 2010 by CarolWiebe

I’ve been fascinated by videos that feature Barbara Marx Hubbard, lately. She offers some very intriguing ideas. Take a look and tell me what you think, especially about the supra-sexual, in which one is aroused by creativity. I could be … Continue reading →