Lifesmith
This site is dedicated to reconciling individual expectations with individual realities.
Three elements are featured:
A book blog developing wholesome villages adapted to all; including indigenous groups.
Fragments of ideas that might fit into your approach to life.
Pawn Sway blogs focused on transparent systems adapted to concerned citizens who are not manipulators.
Lifesmith Book Blog
Two young women feature in this allegory.
Sarah Healer is a 27 year-old who foregoes her investigative journalism career to launch a coffee and book shop in a small village. She thrives as a mentor and leader.
Faralee Frozen Tongue is a 17 year-old girl searching for better answers than she sees on her Indian Reservation. She blossoms as she leads.
Together, they inspire improvements welcomed by the pawns enduring manipulation throughout their lives.
Fragments
A Thousand Layers
We search for metaphors that help us piece together the fragments that surround us but leave us unstructured time to digest. A jigsaw puzzle is one illustration of the myriad ideas bombarding us without context. Each life can be seen as one thousand jigsaw puzzles layered on top of one another. If each puzzle contains one thousand pieces; we have a million pieces to assemble a serene life where we reconcile our expectations with our realities. The Fragments blogs select a few puzzle pieces and suggest how you might assemble them into your life.
Pawn Sway
Donald Trump’s election is a dramatic illustration of the frustration many citizens feel existing governance. If we see ourselves as pawns, subjected to the many authorities we have allowed to manipulate our existences; we can find ways to sway our systems to better reflect the sensibilities of the population members who toil every day but do not see where their contributions are appreciated.
The Pawn Sway blogs focus on ways the pawns might make a difference.
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Reconcile your expectations with your realities
Our mission is encourage every individual to reconcile their individual expectations with their individual realities.
This expects the individual to take individual responsibility responsibility
Be a villager – standing tall
If every villager adopts a mindset of individual responsibility; we can abandon the bulk of our rules and expect individuals to thrive on their own merits. When we abrogate our individual responsibilities; we authorize manipulators to fill the voids. They will.
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Latest Blogs
The current focus is to develop the Lifesmith allegory. You are invited to ponder each blog and suggest improvements. I strive to treat every individual with respect. Where I fail; please let me know but recognize each individual is an amalgam of the culture and will have different perspectives. A five positives for every negative approach has a good chance of preserving good relations.
What about a speaker’s corner?
“They want to see the bellows displayed, somehow, in the shop. I told them I would focus on an appropriate display as the interior design develops but I hadn’t thought of a solution yet.”“What was their last request?”“They want to see the site of the fire cleaned up....
Lofty ideas
#12 Sarah met Giorgio at the shop the next morning. Giorgio asked, “What ideas have you formed?”“I like the symmetry of the stalls. I hope to have bookshelves follow the lines of the box stalls down one side. There’s seven feet of clearance to the angle braces...
Intimidation meets determination
Intimidation meets determination #11 When Sarah got back to Logansveld, she arranged for Faralee to stay with the Myhres for a few days until some arrangement could be worked out. Then she planned to drive to Cutbank to inform Danny’s family about Faralee.She...
