by Taslim Jaffer | Feb 2, 2012 | Journalling
We are already in February of the new year – this is about the point when I start feeling a little more settled into the year. For me, January is still a month of one leg in the past year, 31 days of tying up loose ends and getting a sense of where I am now in...
by Taslim Jaffer | Jan 13, 2012 | Journalling
The word of the week was “bummer”. My 4 year old daughter learned it from her best friend at school and taught it to her little brother who also found it hilarious. The two of them would shout the word at each other and then dissolve into fits of...
by Taslim Jaffer | Jan 10, 2012 | Journalling, Try-This Tuesday
Every morning in grade 6, we would file into the classroom, sit at our desks like the perfect angels we were, pull out our journal books and write to a prompt written in that beautiful cursive that only elementary school teachers seem to have mastered. That and...
by Taslim Jaffer | Nov 21, 2011 | Journalling
The evening of January 5, 2010 started off as a peaceful night. My daughter, then 2.5 years old, was asleep, my husband was out (I think at a Canucks game) and I was relaxing on the couch in a very pregnant state. Then I remembered something I was really, really...
by Taslim Jaffer | Nov 15, 2011 | Journalling, Try-This Tuesday
You’re reading this blog because you want to let your ME out, right? Well, where do you want to go? I know we’ve been talking about the ME that is metaphysical, as in your inner Self/Soul if you will, but the things that fuel your soul, drive your creativity and let...
by Taslim Jaffer | Nov 14, 2011 | Journalling
These days I am fuelled by a quote from author Diane Ackerman “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” Read it and let it sit with you. This is the perfect visual for an...
