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Commenting as a Blog Promotion Strategy
One of the most powerful, overlooked methods of blog promotion is making blogger friends. Blogs that have overlapping audiences with your own are read by people who would probably read your blog. They are also written by people who would read your blog. People who would promote your blog. If you were friendly. How do you make blogger friends? Comment. Contribute to the discussions that other bloggers create, and over a series of virtual conversations, you will create online allies [...]
We’re Gypsies. We follow the weather.
It's been nearly two years since we've started living in Costa Rica. Phase 1: Complete! Phase 2 is to live in Portland half the year (the good half) and come back to Costa Rica for another half of the year (the other good half). Portland has a long, wet winter. This may be why the residents of Portland, still in shock from nine months of rain, frolic and play in the sunshine with gusto, for it is the one brief period of the annual [...]
Costa Rica was a lie. I’m in Gresham.
EDIT: This was a prank for April Fool's Day. To everyone I have decieved, I'm sorry. After talking it over with my family, we've decided to stop living a lie. Actually, we have to, because Johanna is taking our kids downtown to panhandle three days a week, and we've started seeing people we know. We did take one vacation to Costa Rica in 2011. I got lots of photos. I've been plastering these photos all over social media for [...]
Chakra Meditation Study Guide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tecBKhzkBs Video by Caelan Huntress: Music by akshara weave Part of my morning meditation practice is to focus on each one of my chakras. By visualizing the colors and chanting the sounds associated with each of these energy centers, we can cleanse and strengthen the spirit that inhabits our mortal shell. The excellent 10-minute chakra meditation mp3 by Akshara Weave slowly moves up each chakra in turn, surrounding you with the sounds associated with each chakra. These sounds are a powerful [...]
The Envision Festival in Costa Rica
I've got a special place in my heart for gypsies, Burners, and new age hippies. They love like no one else can. They dance from the spasms of the spirit. They are the artists that can push the boundaries of what the human culture creates. And they came to my country, 45 minutes from my house. No dusty pilgrimage to Black Rock city for me; some buses and some hitchhiking, with my old hippie clothes and muddy feet, and I [...]
Making Things Manifest
"We Become What We Think About." - Earl Nightingale Maybe you've noticed this, too: people who keep having problems over and over again, they really like to talk about them. Those who live life of ease - they don't. Gossip and complaining is not how they comment on the world. There is a very real correlation between how you think about your life, and how your life is going. (That's why Drama is avoided by successful people everywhere.) If your life isn't [...]