http://ashlaknights.net/holocrons/kate_solusar Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:48:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Everybody's a critic these days.  It is all too easy to find fault with something or someone.  I have always found it amusing how out-of-touch so many so-called or self-anointed critics so often are.  Movie critics, restaurant critics, and political pundits are just some of those who many times have ... http://ashlaknights.net/holocrons/kate_solusar/2008/11/07/holocron-17-tearing-the-playhouse-down/ When I first joined Sithism (a now closed website), I remember reading a discussion about humility there that really struck me, because it resonated with my own personal experience.  Like so many people, I came to believe in an inaccurate understanding of the meaning and practice of humility.  I thought ... http://ashlaknights.net/holocrons/kate_solusar/2008/10/22/holocron-16-on-humility/ As many of you might know, I regularly visit other, related sites with a similar theme.  It's a way for me to keep an ear to the ground so to speak and often times I learn something that helps me in my own study, training and walking this path in ... http://ashlaknights.net/holocrons/kate_solusar/2008/10/15/holocron-15-some-reflections/ Our communal gardening experiment with our friends and family (I wrote about this in an earlier holocron entry) has been going fairly well, even though our cherry tomatoes and plum tomatoes are just beginning to ripen. My in-laws' garden is beginning to wind down, although their raspberries are still going strong.  We ... http://ashlaknights.net/holocrons/kate_solusar/2008/09/04/holocron-14-encounters-with-the-living-force-in-the-garden/ Lately, I've been focusing mostly on off-line training and while I do come on-line to see what's going on, it's been just to read and not so much to write, at least for an audience. I had been active at Force Academy for a bit, but haven't felt compelled to ... http://ashlaknights.net/holocrons/kate_solusar/2008/09/04/holocron-13-dark-night-of-the-soul/ Even though I may have a title and a partially fictionally based online name and avatar, I am the same on and offline. My name is a combination of a diminutive form of one of my given names and Solusar is a name given me in honor of the fictional ... http://ashlaknights.net/holocrons/kate_solusar/2008/09/04/holocron-12-musings-about-community-and-personal-development/ "Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around." -Frank A. Clark “In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not ... http://ashlaknights.net/holocrons/kate_solusar/2008/07/09/holocron-11-lashon-hara-and-right-speech-to-speak-no-evil/ Life can be a very challenging teacher at times.  The last month has taught me a good deal about a number of things.  Since the main site here is currently down and undergoing renovation, it's been very quiet.  I've wanted to focus on my own personal training and path during ... http://ashlaknights.net/holocrons/kate_solusar/2008/06/06/holocron-10-life-lessons/ It's spring and time to play in the garden in the yard.  At first, we started with annuals, but have now worked our way into perennial gardening.  We still plant annuals, but it's been more fun to work out more long-term plans with plants that return each year.  It's been ... http://ashlaknights.net/holocrons/kate_solusar/2008/05/29/holocron-09-time-to-play-in-the-garden/ This is something I posted over at another site, The Jediism Way.  The first section of text, in italics, explains what the purpose of this assignment is and what is expected in response.  My response, in normal text, follows, although it has been modified for this holocron entry. What you need ... http://ashlaknights.net/holocrons/kate_solusar/2008/05/12/holocron-08-statement-of-jedi-belief-and-practice/