Life Beyond The Swans

“The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.” Dan Stevens   It has been said that when you do something outside your comfort zone, something different, something that stretches you, that you actually create a new pattern in your brain. […]

Just Show Up

“Sometimes the bravest and the most important thing you can do is just show up.” Brene Brown    Last month I wrote about training and getting psyched up to be part of a relay race across Lake Tahoe. The race took place on July 22nd and there were 190 teams consisting of 6 people each […]

Your Thoughts Create Your Reality

“So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.” Mary Oliver   Well here it is – finally summer! Finally warming up enough around where I live to put on shorts and kick back a bit. Well, that is the idea…but I am in […]

I Am Open To The Possibilities

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”   Walt Disney   We have all heard that expression, “You teach what you need to learn.” Right now I seem to be living another expression that says, “Life gives you an experience whether […]

Home of the Brave

The Home Of The Brave   “Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you, too.” Frederick Buechner   Can I […]

Creativity Through Music

“Some people show up when they need something. Some people show up before they need something, knowing that it will pay off later, when they need something. And some people merely show up. Not needing anything, not in anticipation of needing something, but merely because they can.”  Seth Godin   In February I was at […]

See Me

SEE ME Look at the way you’re looking at me. You add up the parts, think you know what you see… From “See Me” by Karen Drucker Robert Anderson & Karen Taylor-Good   Marlena heard his voice for the first time behind a curtain in the hospital. She was there giving a massage to a […]

Karma

“Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not “I love you” for this or that reason; not “I love you if you love me.” It’s love for no reason, love without an […]

Juicy

“No one is too busy to do what they actually prefer.” Alan Cohen                   Happy New Year to all of you! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are ready for this New Year. So… it’s a New Year!! For you, does that mean new goals? […]

We Are The Ones That We’ve Been Waiting For

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time.  We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” President Barack Obama   No matter what side you were on for the election, I think many of us agree that our […]