your daily rock : no more excuses!
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of making excuses. I know what I need to do in order to stop doing that – and one of those things is to be more realistic (and sane) about what I can take on. No, I can’t make 500 cookies in …
your daily rock : love what you do
Sometimes we’re not in the place we want to be. That’s just a reality of life. And that’s okay. Really it is. You can love where you are even if you want to work toward being someplace else. Today, focus on loving your life, your place, what you do. Find …
your daily rock : meet someone new
Everyone has a story. Everyone. Find out part of someone’s story today – say hi to someone new and ask them a question about their lives: what do they love to do? what book did they read last? The possibilities are infinite. You may be surprised and delighted by what …
your daily rock : carry a talisman
We all need something to ground us, something that has meaning for us, that reminds us of a promise we’ve made or a feeling we want to have again, or something that reminds us of someone we love. For my younger daughter, Tess, it was a tiny little grape when …
your daily rock : help them get started
Years ago when Tess was little, I tried putting her down for a nap and she started screaming. And I mean screaming. Kicking and screaming, Tess bellowed at me from her little bed, her mouth square with anger, large tears spurting from her eyes, her tiny hands frantically pulling at …
thinking thursday.
MIND The undergirding factor is power. Please read this article about prejudice and racism. “Yet, the problem is not skin color, but systems that perpetrate evil against others and then justify that evil by blaming the victims. There is nothing wrong with the color black, brown or yellow. It is …
your daily rock : no expectations
Sometimes what you expect and what happens don’t match. That gap causes pain, often. And anxiety. What if we dropped our expectations long enough to truly live in this moment, fully, without that unconscious measuring of how far we have to go, or how far away we are, or how …
your daily rock : forget perfect
Perfect paralyzes us. Perfect stops us. Perfect is a myth. Perfect means there is too much to lose and we don’t take risks. Perfect stops the creative process. Perfect is playing to win; real life is playing to learn. From Art & Fear comes this insight: “The ceramics teacher announced …
your daily rock : let’s do it again!
Thoreau wrote: “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the …
your daily rock : blow bubbles
When’s the last time you blew bubbles? They are magical, ethereal, beautiful, and a reminder to let go. And mostly, they are fun. Blowing them, taking baths in them, catching them, looking at the colors in them, you name it—bubbles are big news at our house. Colorful “Fun Bubbles” bottles …
