{"id":10352,"date":"2020-06-23T12:23:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=10352"},"modified":"2020-06-23T17:22:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T21:22:14","slug":"the-view-from-here-a-mix-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2020\/06\/the-view-from-here-a-mix-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The View From Here – Mind Over Matter, Self Discovery, And More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a sad day.\u00a0 Today looks a lot brighter!\u00a0 Thank you for reaching out the way you do.\u00a0 It’s appreciated.\u00a0 We have the best listeners on the planet!<\/p>\n

I picked a shirt today to help me with my mindset “Mind Over Matter”.\u00a0 \u00a0Focus on good things. Positive things.\u00a0 Focus on what you can be thankful and grateful for even in the chaos of covid 19 living. And the fancy coffee I made myself didn’t hurt – it’s amazing what you can do at home.<\/p>\n

You guys, I am the mother of a grade 8 graduate today.\u00a0 Gasp.<\/p>\n

My youngest – my baby – officially graduates grade 8 tonight in an online virtual ceremony.\u00a0 More like a video actually.\u00a0 So much missing from the celebration.\u00a0 Can’t even be with those we love.\u00a0 But it’s the fact that my baby is getting ready for high school that suddenly has taken my breath away.<\/p>\n

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I’ve found a new book\/ journal to help me through this period in time.\u00a0 Based on Michelle Obama’s book Becoming.\u00a0 I love the idea of self discovery.\u00a0 Sharing your story.\u00a0 Owning your story.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

Daily journal prompts that make you think about your life in a whole new way.\u00a0 Who do you want to be?\u00a0 Pick a favourite photo and describe what you see.\u00a0 Thought provoking questions to help you discover and rediscover, the one thing you will always be true to you and you alone – your story.<\/p>\n

I’m excited to dig in and start using it.\u00a0 I admit, I haven’t read Becoming, but after watching the Netflix documentary on Michelle, I have to say – she is an inspiration.\u00a0 And it’s okay to have someone to inspire you, but I think each of us has a story of our own.\u00a0 And we can be inspired by ourselves.\u00a0 What we have been through in this world.\u00a0 Journaling is an amazing tool to help get you through this time.\u00a0 It’s one of the recommendations by the Canadian Mental Health Association when it comes to taking care of your mental health. Journal.\u00a0 Share your thoughts and feelings. So many benefits<\/a> to writing in a journal.<\/p>\n

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We’re allowed on outdoor patios again at our favourite restaurants.\u00a0 Some places have had to get creative and make a patio where there wasn’t one before.<\/p>\n

In Sweden, they’ve gotten really creative with their dining.\u00a0 A one-person restaurant<\/a> opened in the middle of the field.\u00a0 The meal is served on a rope out of a kitchen window.<\/p>\n

Another restaurant “Nowhere” is located on a nature reserve near Stockholm, Sweden, is really bringing social distancing and open air dining to a whole new level.\u00a0 Six tables, scattered around the reserve, so there’s no risk of coming into contact with other guests.\u00a0 Tables are located near interesting and beautiful locations – one in the middle of a forest, another is on a dock by a lake, and another in a meadow.<\/p>\n

You have to appreciate those hard working delivery drivers.\u00a0 And you really have to love those that go the extra mile.\u00a0 Like this Amazon delivery driver<\/a> who went through with following a set of highly unusual instruction with a package she recently dropped off.\u00a0 In footage captured by her Nest camera on Facebook, you see the Amazon driver drop a large, square package at the doorstep, before knocking on the door three times and yelling “Abracadabra!” before running back to her van in a hurry.\u00a0 It seems someone had put some “additional instruction” for delivery and she went along with it.\u00a0 Proof the driver looked closely at the instructions. And likes to have fun at work.<\/p>\n

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Please reach out anytime – email cbuchanan@blackburnradio.com or text me using the A1 Security Textline – 519-464-1999 and thank you for showing up and sharing your afternoons with me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday was a sad day.\u00a0 Today looks a lot brighter!\u00a0 Thank you for reaching out the way you do.\u00a0 It’s appreciated.\u00a0 We have the best listeners on the planet! I picked a shirt today to help me with my mindset “Mind Over Matter”.\u00a0 \u00a0Focus on good things. Positive things.\u00a0 Focus on what you can be","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":10362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2077,4248,1154,4393,4394,4148,4149,1116,369,4388,4391,4390,4386,4389,442,4387,4392,4383],"class_list":["post-10352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-amazon","tag-becoming","tag-book","tag-delivery-driver","tag-funny","tag-journal","tag-journalling","tag-mental-health","tag-michelle-obama","tag-one-person-restaurant","tag-open-air-dining","tag-outside-dining","tag-own-your-story","tag-patios","tag-sarnia","tag-share-your-story","tag-sweden","tag-view-from-here"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 22:36:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2020\/06\/the-view-from-here-a-mix-of-things\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10352"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10361,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions\/10361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}