Allowing myself the time to dream has brought a number of those dreams into fruition. The tricky part comes when you have to shift from the dreaming into the doing. One minute your head is in the clouds and the next minute you're feet need to be...
I'm nobody - nobody famous, that is - but I am somebody. I breathe. I think. I move. I talk. I love. I am loved. I serve. I give. I take. I have wants, wishes and dream. I have opinions. I am enough. Most days I...
I certainly do hope your week went a little better than mine did. None the less, thanks to a lot of rest, care from my family and quite a few bowls of chicken soup, I'm feeling a little more like myself today. It's been a long...
Am I the only one who marvels at the fact that no matter what kinds of swirling, spinning activity there is happening out and about on the world wide web, we can still stay so close to home? As I wind down a day of bright, bold...
Paradoxically, what immediately surfaces for me when i consider enoughness is the consistent and persistent feedback I have received about being too much. Not being enough has its roots for me in being told I am too much. I have been told repeatedly that I am too...
So finally, all of the projects I've been working on behind the scenes are beginning to reveal themselves. All the ideas, thoughts, intentions, and plans are slowly unfurling. It feels amazing. And a little bit scary. If I didn't admit that sometimes I feel fearful of forging ahead, of...
Sometimes being enough means simply standing still. At the beginning of 2009, I took my first writing class. As a beginning writer – and beginning writing student - I had the usual first day nerves, worried my fellow classmates would all be better than me and...
A special thanks to my daughter for helping me on this project of passion. And if you love this beeeeautiful song like I do, you've got to pick up "When We Were Small" by the talented Rosie Thomas. ...
I'm bursting with excitement over here. Right now, more than ever I am leaning on and living in the magic of togetherness. From what I can tell from here, 2011 is taking shape as the year of community on so many levels. From communal online...
Life is, above all else, a gift. Each breath, each ray of sunshine, each gust of wind, each snowflake, each step, each open door, each connection; all gifts. When life gets overwhelming (good or bad makes no difference) I try to hold onto this perspective and carry...