#Tie #Help – HELP! Repeat after me HEEELLLP!!! I know that’s a hard word for many, but keep going, Repeat: I’d like some help. – Can you give me a hand? – I just need you to listen. – Please help. – I’d appreciate your input.
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#Tie #Failure – Fail! fail! fail!! In my life I have failed at walking, talking, bicycling, writing, reading, understanding, driving, hooping, batting, swimming and yes even coaching 
And, that’s how I got better. And yes I have failed at living fully in my values, gossiping, judging and I get better at that every day, everyday! I’m not talking about perfection here.
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#Tie #Idea – Cast your line!! Yesterday just after thinking up my 1,237,450,222nd idea I had this thought that since we are all psychically connected there’s a chance that not only will someone complete my idea/dream/fantasy, but maybe I’m helping to complete theirs. After all, we all create the world we live in. If we all stopped believing in TV, there’d be no more TV. If we all started believing that the violence on TV, including in some sports and/or they way players vs. teachers are paid, we’d have more shows that helped us to feel good about ourselves and each other and happier, healthier better trained teachers – if that was our dream.
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#Tie #Nay Sayers – Do you or have you ever had someone in your life who put passionate energy into telling you what you couldn’t do rather than supporting you? Don’t let someone elses’ fears hold you back. Find the successful risk takers, the ones who when they fail, celebrate that they’ve tried, then go for something new.
Life is meant to be open playful and abundant and that means many things to many people. Where are you missing these attributes in your life? How can you bring them in? May you be present and loving all day long.
(Originally posted 8.9.10 on FB.)
#Tie #Queer – Queer! – My definition: Way out of the box! Queer means I’m NOT normal! Queer means I dance to my-own-beat and the beat of the world, not the beat created by the market. Queer means I accept ALL of the consensual ways you are sexual, even though I may not be attracted to it.
Queer is the first “Q” in LBGTQQI and for many of us, stands for all of us and beyond.
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#Tie #Gentrification – Indigenous Peoples Day – This morning I was remembering how all over the world indigenous people continue to be oppressed. Not a happy thought, obviously. I then thought about how Indigenous North Americans in our civilized/Just countries continue to struggle and have to fight for basic needs such as healthcare, schools, teachers, and access to healthy water – today, right now. I also can’t help but think about the many ways we practice gentrification today.
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#Tie #Femme – FEMME!! Gets me excited just writing the word – Femme!
Femme! Not the opposite of Butch, that’s a butch fantasy – except of course when she wants to be. Otherwise, Femmes can stand alone and/or with each other without any need for a butch to qualify them – as Femme.
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#Tie #Butch Enough #Butch – You are Butch Enough! We are Butch Enough!
If there is such a thing…
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#Tie #Shame – #Trouble – Yesterday Jen Cross and I talked about what it meant to be “in trouble” and specifically at work, but generally, well…just in general. We agreed that the idea of “getting in trouble” with someone is childish and ridiculous. I believe that it’s an old threat that is focused on shame and shaming. As adults we take responsibility for our actions, then we work with/accept the consequences – we don’t “get in trouble”, (unless of course we’re doing it for fun.)
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#Tie #Integrity – One of my thoughts this morning was about how hugely grateful I am for this time I have to align myself with my values and practice them with integrity all the time. (This is what it is for me to be unemployed and doing some of the work I love, coaching.) Then I thought about a person I know who is known for telling coworkers one thing and telling mgmt. another, leaving people blind-sighted, confused and distrustful way beyond this one individual. When mgmt. fosters this behavior the lack of trust can spread around the office as a virus. There were times when I participated in such behavior, in various jobs, I was crumbling to peer pressure, and I always felt terrible about it. I’m much prefer “getting in trouble” for being honest, then playing these fear-based games.
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