Loving and Respecting Your Tribe
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There is a LOT of emotion flying (105 comments or so at last glance) on Charlie Gilkey’s Productive Flourishing blog about a post by Marissa Bracke called Launch Fatigue and How Not to be an Infomercial. The title says it all, but great folks, including myself, are coming forth with their feelings (or lack thereof) [...]
Read more »Be Miserable: Not Just for Artists (via Keri Smith)
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I found this great Keri Smith survival tool via Elissa Elliott, one of the members of Ronna Detrick’s Conversational Space (a women’s discussion group centered around Faith, Feminism and Truth-please do check it out!).
I’ve loved Keri Smith for a long time. She is 100% authentic, pragmatic, private and creative and the author of many non-traditional [...]
Joy, Longing, Food, Work
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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 [...]
Authenticity and the Struggle of Relationship
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Three years ago I met my love. It was terrible timing (I really can’t stress that enough). I had barely left my current relationship (though it was long dead) and was profoundly depressed. She had just suffered the tragic news that her father had a terminal illness (after her own breakup and career downsizing). We [...]
Read more »New Personal Post Added
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Lady Gaga, Oprah and My Own “Ah-ha!”
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One of my business ideas from way back (like at least 10 years) was doing a magazine called Characters. I even reserved a domain name, drew up a structure but just never got around to making happen. It would be about, well, characters-those individuals who are truly individuals. They have little regard for popularity or convention [...]
Fear
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You’re afraid. You don’t have enough followers or traffic or clients or buyers. You focus on fear instead of your vision, the probability of failure instead of your list of successes, what went wrong versus what went right. You are overwhelmed with online marketing “shoulds” and info and opinions. You aren’t making millions, or hundreds [...]
Read more »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.
Read more »A Sweet Birthday Video
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Thank you Robert Madison!
Read more »Reality vs. Reality: Pick the Better One
I’m an optimist. I usually have people counter with “I’m a realist” but I question whether they really are. Our daily realities are subjective.
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