Joy, Longing, Food, Work
WARNING: LONG POST (I will use bullet points to help)
Geneen Roth is Oprah’s newest golden child (Oprah blessed her with the #1 spot on book lists). I felt “in the know” because I read Geneen Roth’s Feeding the Hungry Heart (and the now out-of-print but brilliant Thin Within) 20+ years ago. Geneen has written a [...]
David Whyte’s Everything is Waiting for You
Thanks for reminding me, Ronna.
EVERYTHING IS WAITING FOR YOU
(After Derek Mahon)
Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings. [...]
An Exercise from Danielle LaPorte
Danielle LaPorte, Queen of all things “white hot” wrote a post that I’m copying here:
magnetic attraction analysis 101
One of the most powerful questions you can ask yourself is: What am I drawn to? Plenty of people are inspirationally challenged – not sure of what lights their fire. Others are so selective [...]
On Parenting, Possibility and Patti Smith
I’m in love with Patti Smith. Trust me when I say I was not cool enough to love her in her heyday. But a chance grab of her Dream of Life DVD at the library and I was truly, deeply inspired by her. If a single person represents “authenticity” it may be her. I’m reading [...]
Returning to The Cube
Anyone ever see the film Cube? Frighteningly original, it was a bit Saw meets corporate America and came out when Saw was just a glimmer in its warped director’s mind. CUBE was a scary place to be. And so it has always been for me in the world of work. My Twitter profile says “NOT [...]
Serendipity, Therapy, Love…and more
I’m in a complicated relationship. That might be an oxymoron (like dysfunctional family) but this is the meaty juicy kind of love that fills you up so much that you cannot let it go despite it having some significant barriers to what you want and think love should look like.
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