Sometimes I wonder who I choose to live this life at the End of Days. Am I stupid or something? I don’t even know if it’s the End of Days. I don’t know if it’s Solstice 2012 or Oct 28, 2011. I don’t know if any of it is true. I feel something in my bones though. I’ve been “working…
Author: Karin Armbrust
Zumba….A Spiritual Practice?
So it’s January. So it’s right after the New Years. So it’s time for our six weeks of attempting to fulfill our resolutions until life gets the best of us and we end up back in front of the TV watching reruns of the Vampire Diaries. So what if the place is packed with resolution adventurers and there is no…
On Creativity, Morality and Information Overload
Recently, I was at my writer’s group and we were talking about the barrage of information given to us by the media. I’m in an Artist’s Way workshop and I had taken my “artist date” at the local Barnes and Noble. I let my inner child artist free and we wandered the aisles looking at anything I took a fancy…
The Nature and Promise of Connection
I have been trapped in a maze of my own making. For several months now I’ve been contemplating what it means to be connected. What is connection? Is it possible for me to have it? Do other people have it? Can they, or anyone really, show me the way? And so I watched people and what I saw was that…
Art and The Art of Living
Yesterday, at my voice-over class, I asked my instructor about how she deals with just the mechanics of living while still pursuing her dream. You see, in the world of acting and voice-over, the actual job is to audition. We spend a lot of time trying to get the gig, much more than actually doing any gigs we might get.…
Inclusion and Exclusion in Community
Recently, about 25 of us came together to discuss community, specifically, the issues of inclusion and exclusion. Our goal was to come together to learn more about the issue, witness the feelings and stories of each other and to come up with ideas about how to deal with it. Many feelings, stories and ideas came up over the 3 hours.…
Exploring… Community
You are invited to a dance community discussion about what it means to be in community. One of the challenges of our community is event planning. We all love to be together for events, however, many times space available dictates the number of people who can be invited. This can cause negative feelings, on all sides. We’ll be focusing on…
The Case for Manual Testers
Let me tell you a story…. Once upon a time there was a magical world named IT. It was a world of exploding ideas, technology, and of striving for excellence. And every day it grew and grew. Until one day, the demon EGO came in put a spell on all the cititizens of IT. Because of this they quit striving…
A Rabid Competence
I woke up this morning feeling great. Fabulous. So utterly awesome that I whipped through a third of the Microsoft C# training program, and that was after I spent time on the Liveedge Online documentation. That’s right. Karin, right in the Driver’s seat. Well straddling it actually. My ass was just not in the mood to sit still, like it has anything…
The Questions: Exploring Men and Women in the Context of Relationship
Here are the questions that were put forth by many of the participants of the event Exploring Men and Women in the Context of Relationship. It’s our hope that the dialog will continue. If you have questions to add, please use the comment function to add questions onto this list. How do you know someone loves you? What…