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This is the sec­ond part of a com­ment to a post from a fel­low blog­ger. You can find his post here, and the first part to my response here. I hope you enjoy these new reflec­tions on his essay about the dan­gers of over­spe­cial­i­sa­tion.
– The crazy Colom­bian
REFLECTIVE COMMENT #2 — ON LETTERS AND THEIR HIDDEN […]

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Hello reader; we find each other again. I have an announce­ment to make. Over the last month, I found some­one very sim­i­lar, and at the same time very dif­fer­ent to me. His name is Andres Melo, and like me, he is a Colom­bian expa­tri­ate in an Eng­lish speak­ing coun­try (Canada).
Like me, he has a reflective […]

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Over the last 12 months , I have been on a jour­ney of self-exploration and dis­clo­sure. Through this jour­ney, I’ve had some dif­fi­cult times and chal­leng­ing moments. I also have had peo­ple I respect tell me I lost the plot. One thing in com­mon in both instances was that I let my emo­tions and my […]

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How to have an eco-friendly winter

by The Crazy Colombian on June 16, 2007

in How to, The Environment

Image from ecosmartfire.com
Win­ter is truly here, bring­ing with it child­hood mem­o­ries of nights by the fire­place, cook­ing steak on a grill over the open fire.
Who would light an old-fashioned coal or wood fire­place in these days of global warm­ing, and still have a clean con­science? Lucky for us all, a cre­ative Aus­tralian inven­tor has designed some […]

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Background noise

by The Crazy Colombian on March 31, 2007

in Personal Development, Reflection

I recently heard an inter­est­ing show on ‘Radio National’ talked about the effect that noise has on the class­room . It talked about how noise dis­tracts stu­dents, and in extreme cases, a seem­ingly minor dis­trac­tion can change the mean­ing of the whole les­son.
It gave the exam­ple of a children’s story read to a group of […]

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