Monthly Archives: March 2014

Living in the Moment

By Tiffany A. Dedeaux I spent six months in Australia for work from July 2008 to February 2009.  Having just figured out how much better hiking is than walking in the city I spent every free moment between assignments trying … Continue reading

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An Opportunity to Bond

By Tiffany A. Dedeaux In Walking the Camino:  Six Ways to Santiago one person noted that pilgrimages were a great way to bond with people in his life who were still alive.  He recently lost his wife.  The previous year … Continue reading

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We Carry Our Fear

By Tiffany A. Dedeaux In the documentary Walking the Camino:  Six Ways to Santiago, the idea that the packs we carry represent our fear is intriguing to me not just because I’m reminded of the Monster that Cheryl Strayed carried … Continue reading

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Letting Go of the Ego

By Tiffany A. Dedeaux In the Camino that is my life I am currently learning to let go of competition.  It doesn’t help me to know what others are doing.  It distracts me, really, because I don’t know how hard … Continue reading

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Six Ways to Santiago

By Tiffany A. Dedeaux The Six Ways to Santiago in the documentary Walking the Camino are not literal paths but the witnessing of the journey for six individuals.  The six insights that I walked away with from the different experiences … Continue reading

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Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago

By Tiffany A. Dedeaux The documentary Walking the Camino:  Six Ways to Santiago follows six people during their pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago. Walking the Camino reminds me of my video editing career because there were some edits I … Continue reading

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The Storm is Revealing

By Tiffany A. Dedeaux Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.  ~ Paulo Coelho This quote was shared by Women Who Change the … Continue reading

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Suddenly

I was waiting for the bus talking with someone about how their mother’s health had suddenly changed over the course of the last few months.  While we were catching up on each others lives the sporadic drops of rain turned … Continue reading

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Lessons from a Snowy Season

By Tiffany A. Dedeaux For some reason I always saw last week’s snowfall as beautiful and there was never a doubt that I would get to where I was going in terms of my commitments.  What I did come to … Continue reading

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Grief is a Broken Circle

By Tiffany A. Dedeaux Inspired by the movie Broken Circle Breakdown I’ve begun to consider that what we are looking for in terms of healing our grief is mending the broken circle.  Near the end of the movie the father … Continue reading

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