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Tame Bear on June 5th, 2023

A cat is a way to make regular trips to a pet store. Fear is the ability to entertain possibilities that have not happened and are not real. What’s the problem unless you think about it? #nonduality What problem do you have unless you’re thinking about it? An essential idea of #nonduality – thought entertains […]

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Tame Bear on May 10th, 2018

We put our dear cat Whidbey down last week, after a long drawn out illness. Now I have this tube of ashes and a few tufts of fur to bury later. She was my favorite of all the cats, and has been with us for 17 years. Born in our backyard. Sister to Gretel who […]

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Tame Bear on August 9th, 2017

You are two. The one on the outside who everyone sees. And the one on the inside who interprets and narrates the world you experience. Many of us focus on the ME everyone sees, training and grooming it and conforming it to the culture that surrrounds us. The true art in life happens when we focus […]

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Tame Bear on July 14th, 2017

SAD NEWS — ClixSense PTC is permanently closing on Monday, July 17th, 2017. ClixSense made the announcement about a week ago in their login message. The company plans to continue its surveys, tasks, and offers business. [insert_php] include(‘ptc-blurb-inc.html’); [/insert_php] Here is how they describe the imminent closure… Members, more than 10 years ago we came online […]

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Tame Bear on March 2nd, 2017

This post was originally guest published on “Anne’s Therapeutic Massage” in March 2015, recounting a conversation with my CMT following a regular weekly massage session.  It is all about the experience of giving and receiving…

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Tame Bear on January 27th, 2017

The year 2016 was a rough one for the Traffic Exchanges, with a big slap down delivered by PayPal. When PayPal banned the TEs from using their payment processing service, everyone — owners, advertisers, publishers, and affiliate marketers — felt the impact. A whole lot of ongoing subscriptions and cashflow instantly vaporized. How to handle a downturn? When earnings drop […]

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Tame Bear on January 2nd, 2017

How did you find your way into affiliate marketing? Like many people, I stumbled upon it by accident. In the summer of 2010 I was looking for some insights about how to market my first ebook which I had just published at Smashwords.com. Smashwords was responsible for distributing the new book to online stores, in all the popular formats […]

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Tame Bear on December 29th, 2016

The cat lays on my hand in my lap and stretches. When I look for my hand, the boundary between cat and hand is dissolved and in its place there is a sweet oneness or unity that binds me to the life of all animals.

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Tame Bear on November 13th, 2016

I keep hearing the same simple narrative about why a Trump president is good for the economy. It goes like this. Trump will open up oil exploration by cutting regulations. He will let us to drill, frack, and dig where we please to get the economy going again. He will approve the Keystone pipeline, yada yada. Wrong answer. […]

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Tame Bear on October 26th, 2016

My take, more often than not, is a philosophical one that takes the long view. I’m thinking decades, maybe several generations. This year we have an unusual opportunity to vote our conscience up and down the ticket and see it make a dramatic change for the common good. FAILURE OF THE NORMAL FUNCTIONING OF GOVERNMENT This […]

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