Take a Moment Monday: Make Good Art
The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art…
Take a Moment Monday: Check in With Yourself
If today was the last day of your life, what would you change? When Elizabeth Gilbert quoted an older friend who said that every thoughtful woman, every ten years, should take some time to be alone with herself, in order to…
Take a Moment Mondays: Do Something You Love
Living Eulogy she danced. she sang. she took. she gave. she loved. she created. she dissented. she enlivened. she saw. she grew. she sweated. she changed. she learned. she laughed. she shed her skin. she bled on the…
Take a Moment Monday: Your Creative Best
Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing…
Delicious Ambiguity
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. Gilda Radner I’ve begun 2018 in a new mood. It’s a mood of…
Radical Wonder
Awareness of the divine begins with wonder. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel I sit in a café and watch a little girl play with her toys. ‘Wow!’ Her voice is filled with wonder. She’s focused, she’s smiling, and her eyes are…
Strong Back. Soft Front. Wild Heart.
True belonging doesn’t require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are. Brené Brown. Strong Back. Soft Front. Wild Heart. These words summarise a life-long journey of learning to be vulnerable and learning to stand up…
Less Scrolling. More Showing Up
Social media are great for developing community, but for true belonging, real connection and real empathy require meeting real people in a real space in a real time. Brené Brown Braving the Wilderness Chapter Six: Hold Hands. With Strangers.…
Chapter Three–The Infinite Power of Showing Up
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as…
Write Around the World: It’s Cold Out There
We can’t have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, people we deal with, and…