I had a funny moment of enlightenment lately (and I nearly missed it)~ A solid, accessible option for a restoring-kind of Saturday Day Trip, and I almost let it pass me by. Lucky for me that the universe grabbed me by the lapels –like that great Mary Engelbreit illustration– and said “Snap Out Of It!” A friend had [...]
The Wisdom To Know the Difference
I’m sure we’re all familiar with the Serenity Prayer: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference”. So powerful, so life changing…..so risky. This prayer is so familiar to me, and yet, until recently, I had [...]
Fear And Dreams Must Collide
As some of you know, I have been wanting to do a one-woman show for quite a while now – years! Somehow, however, I have managed to put it off – until yesterday. That’s right. At 3:00 p.m. on the 8th of March, in front of an audience of about 30, I performed the “shitty [...]
It’s My Birthday!
… and my risk is letting people love on me allllll day, in preparation for the rest of my life! And yours?
Mary Oliver, The Great, The Real
Thank you so much to those of you wrote and spoke to me in thanks for sharing Mary Oliver’s poem, “The Journey” a few days back. She is truly one of the great poets of our time, and of all time, in my humble opinion. She has so much to say about us, all living [...]
Setting Boundaries And Doing It Your Way
Remember the Robert Frost poem about good fences making good neighbors? I am reminded of that as I write about my risk for today. My risk is that I just told a new client, “No.” Yikes! The client is actually two people – a business partnership – and they wanted to move an appointment from [...]
Singing my Song, Regardless, and Being Glad I Did
Sometimes, the act of taking a risk, as much as we feel it might cost us, ends up paying dividends that far exceed any actual or perceived price we might have paid. This was proven to me once again after taking my risk for yesterday, which was to sing in public. A client of mine [...]
