From the category archives:

Bliss

Go time. Finally. (And yay!)

July 7, 2010

It’s here! You know – IT. The happy secret I was so tortured about keeping. And now I’m tongue-tied all over again. But that’s just as well, because you can finally just come visit and find out for yourself. Yayyy! So what will happen here? I know I’ve been super quiet lately. Part secret-keeping, tongue-tied. Part Distillery-building-Hopscotch-playing. [...]

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Nostalgia

April 20, 2010

I keep getting memory flashes that all share a certain hard-to-describe quality: this easy, glowey, vacationey state of mind. Which is lovely, yes, but also tinged with a bit of bittersweet nostalgia. Two kinds of flashes… one of entirely ordinary moments, and feel a happy glow at their memory mingled with a bit of nostalgia. [...]

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The things we do to keep the flame burning.

March 12, 2010

Sometimes I have a moment when I remember that there are so many ways to make an certain experience happier. And for whatever reason, I don’t choose to take advantage of those ways. There are these little, tiny, almost insignificant steps that can bring more ease and joy to an activity. Steps that aren’t difficult [...]

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Of course this hero’s saga stuff is hard. It’s supposed to be.

February 26, 2010

I woke up this morning thinking about taking the leap, choosing your own adventure, answering your hero’s call. And that it isn’t supposed to be easy. People say living from your heart and steering toward your best life feels like paddling downstream. You get this image of leaning back on your raft with the sunshine [...]

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The power of play. And my underdog gene?

February 16, 2010

Last week I listened to the loveliest, most delightful interview with Dr. Stuart Brown of The National Institute for Play. (!! Yes, that is apparently a thing. I know!! And a little note to my current clients: When he realizes how much I support him and his playful endeavors and decides that The Institute can’t [...]

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Dear Martha Beck

June 5, 2009

Next Wednesday, June 10th, I start life coach training with Martha Beck.  I am crazy excited and nervous and a total bundle of energy.  I was just reading through an old journal, and found an entry from last year on June 9th and the crazy serendipity of it just blew me away. This was before [...]

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Blossoming

June 3, 2009

From a poem I can’t get enough of by Li-Young Lee:        O, to take what we love inside,                    to carry within us an orchard, to eat not only the skin, but the shade, not only the sugar, but the days, to hold the fruit in our hands, adore it… There are [...]

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Let joy win

May 29, 2009

Letting joy win.  This has become a kind of mantra for me lately.  However, my inner lizard Ozzie rolls his eyes at the whole idea.  He would be totally on board with chanting “Let Joy Win” if my name were actually Joy, but it isn’t.  Especially because that lizard is ob-sessed with winning, and so totally [...]

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