Thoughts on meaning of life after Burt Bacharach concert in Sydney on the 13th of July

Posted by  in July 16th, 2007  
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The joy of being able to point to, easily, one’s life work There was no hesitation at the Sydney Concert Hall to give Burt Bacharach a standing ovation at the end of the concert on Friday. Thank you Burt for letting us sing along too. That was the hardest thing, staying mum when one knew [...]

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….more on changing names….

Posted by  in July 16th, 2007  
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It is done Now I have a new passport arriving from France with my maiden name, which was already there anyway, but the passport needed to be redone, getting in to the biometrics era. I have received my name change document from the Australian births deaths and marriages office and I just got a letter [...]

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Readopting the name I was born with = Jaurola

Posted by  in June 20th, 2007  
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After several years of dreading the effort, I am now taking the plunge….. There are two nice ways to pronounce my name Jaurola….. the French and the Finnish way. First is something like ‘Jorola’ [French way] or ‘Yaurola’ [Finnish], emphasis on first syllable. Gosh I started to try and do this in phonetic language – [...]

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Far virtual worlds

Posted by  in June 20th, 2007  
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yeah ok, it took me a long time to get avatarized on 2nd life Now I’ve got my very own ‘girl next door’ figure on second life. First place I had to go to was the popular French dance, sand, romance, music island. While I was learning to walk, sit, fly and do all those [...]

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Play! A video game symphony

Posted by  in June 20th, 2007  
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Evolving game scene and Sydney Opera House Concert Hall audience The symphony last night was my son’s choice. He saw one ad for Play! A video game symphony and immediately put in his wish to go hear it. I was more than happy to oblige and it was a night out before he is off [...]

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Compensating for distance or distancing from compensation

Posted by  in June 4th, 2007  
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Living next door to childhood home or on the other side of the world? This is not a new dilemma but one that is immensely personal. I live about 15000km away from the country I was born in and lived in until I started stints of living overseas when I was 16. I have no [...]

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Language and brain

Posted by  in May 20th, 2007  
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Bilingual fun…. Neuroscience is coming up with some fascinating pointers to what goes on when one speaks more than one language. I have been puzzled by what happens to me when I type and out comes a word in a different language or a word I use a lot. The research, a combination of neuroscience and [...]

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Creativity and spirituality

Posted by  in May 20th, 2007  
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Fascinated by paradoxes Of late I have read a few books touching on creativity and on spirituality. The latest two are by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, “Creativity” and Eckhart Tolle, “A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose”. The former talks about creativity as something that emerges when critical conditions have been met. The three key ones [...]

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Presence and relationships

Posted by  in April 26th, 2007  
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Does IM bring a whole new dimension to our relationship formation? I have had some fascinating experiences with IM. It, as a medium of communication, carries a sharing and caring opportunity that most other communication means do not have. IM caters for listening, even if at times you cross talk. IM caters for venting. IM [...]

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Automatic typing fingers

Posted by  in February 10th, 2007  
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Brain and the wonders of it Languages spin magic with me. I speak a number of languages. Depending on the environment I am in, how much I’ve spoken a language, how many years I studied it etc these languages are at different ‘call-out’ levels. So for example I studied Swedish and German for about the [...]

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A path to foresight profession

Posted by  in January 16th, 2007  
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Imagine the future, share the passion, interact with the likeminded and act to bring it about….. It is not a lighthouse it is a sunrise About a year ago I wrote a profile for the member area on the Association of Professional Futurists web-site. I have altered that text slightly to update any references to [...]

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Finnish Independence Day – 6th of December

Posted by  in December 6th, 2006  
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Not a bad day to start blogging. There is some meaning to this as I was born in Finland and my blog is called far other worlds…….and I live about as far away from Finland as one can get, in Sydney Australia.

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