your daily rock : take notice
Notice the color orange all day today. What did you discover? Love, (These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.
your daily rock : infuse your life with color!
While I’m not a fan of the word or idea of “bomb,” I have always loved this idea: “Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high …
your daily rock : get off the fence
Leap. Love, (These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.
your daily rock : create new patterns
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. -Tuli Kupferberg We’ve talked about breaking old patterns, about recognizing our way out of them instead of repeating our way into them. (Recognition is key–without realizing what those patterns are, we can’t break them except superficially.) What happens when those old patterns are …
your daily rock : give someone an award!
At the end of Tess’ camp this summer, families of the campers gathered for their talent show. Some kids sang, some built things from Legos, some at the last moment couldn’t be persuaded to move from their chairs to participate. It didn’t matter. In their own way, they each made …
your daily rock : share the burden
I think human beings are hard-wired for community. And communities are hard-wired for helping, for holding space for each other, for sharing our burdens in order to lighten all of them in that moment. If we don’t share our burden, we are prisoners to our own shame. If we don’t …
your daily rock : be the change
The first post I ever wrote on 37days was about the killing of Kitty Genovese and the bystander effect. She’s the young woman savagely stabbed to death in 1964 on a New York street with 38 people watching from their apartment windows. As Martin Gansberg reported in The New York …
your daily rock : do the hard things first
We all have lists. Long lists, ranging from “get more cat food” to “be a mother to my children” to “finish writing the Great American Novel.” It’s easy to look at that list and feel overwhelmed, and paralyzed. More often than not, we veer toward the simple tasks, those ones …
your daily rock : smile
Want an instant happy moment and facelift? Smile. At people you know, people you love, people you have never seen before and will never see again, small dogs that yip, the clerk at the gas station, people passing you on the street. As people on Twitter know, I use my …
your daily rock : think small.
I used to think I could save the world. And that I wanted to. Until one day I wasn’t home when Emma needed me. And then I realized that saving the world comes in very small steps, in recognizing the importance of the quality of our engagement with the people …
