How do you want to feel?
Danielle LaPorte says a lot of wise things. One of the wise things she says is that we’ve got success all backwards. We tell ourselves that if we do this, and this, and this, we’ll feel that, and then we’re surprised when accomplishing what we set out to do doesn’t make us feel the way […]
Read MoreUniverse Dancing
As we near the end of each Love Project month, I start musing over what I want to say about it. Some months are easy, their effects on me so profound, I feel fundamentally altered. The month of hugs was like that, and the month of self-love broke me open in ways I never could […]
Read MoreStart Here
September is well underway… how’s your vision? According to the big fat Love Project master plan, it’s the “month of seeing.” This is the month where we all take a minute – lots of minutes, actually – to see beyond the easy labels we assign each other to the real, breathing, complicated human beings we […]
Read MoreIn each other’s hands
Yoga teaches that everything is connected. Movement influences breath; breath influences the mind. What we eat affects our bodies and our moods. Our thoughts, words, and deeds shape those around us. Life, in essence, is a series of ripple effects. I love this quote. I believe it, now more than ever before. Whenever I get […]
Read MoreParts of a Whole
1. Every other Tuesday, I have lunch with my mom. We take turns making the food, but we always meet at her house because her house has all the stuff, and that’s why we’re there. To go through the stuff. So far, we’ve been looking through envelopes of loose pictures. Some of the photos are […]
Read MoreYou should know…
We’re 10 days in, and I’ve paid some sweet, goofy, surprising, absolutely true compliments to some very deserving people. The point really isn’t to be outrageous (I just like the laughter that inevitably ensues when I am), it’s really about taking the time in July to say the nice things you often only think. I […]
Read MoreThe nature of stuff from the heart
So, we are almost halfway through the month of August, which in Love Project language means we’re almost halfway through the month of grand gestures. Here are my grand gestures so far. I published a post to everyone who has written me about their fears around love, the ones who have broken me open with […]
Read MoreJust in case…
Don’t leave home without it. I was thinking about that slogan today as I packed my cool messenger bag with a ridiculous amount of stuff just in case. In case I have to wait in line (a book), in case I see something dazzling (my camera), in case I need to report a crime in […]
Read MoreIf I could…
I’d hold your hand always so you’d never feel alone. I’d reflect your beauty so clearly, so absolutely, you’d look into my eyes and see your own unquestionable worth. I’d convince you somehow that it’s better to love, to risk you heart, to be bruised and battered and painfully alive than it is to be […]
Read MoreCrazy Beautiful
I lost a batch of pictures from my vacation – all from the first day. I suspect something went wrong in the upload and, without realizing that, I deleted them from the camera. They’re the least painful ones to lose – pictures of our CRV holding all it can, bikes strapped to the back, boxes […]
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