your daily rock : make people smile!
When I travel, I play a game in airports where everyone looks serious and stressed and late or disconnected. It’s a really simple game. And it takes my mind off of my own delayed flights. I just count the number of people I can make smile or laugh. It becomes …
This is the strongest offer I have ever made.
To This Day from To This Day on Vimeo. (Poet Shane Koyczan created this amazing video. He has just been confirmed as a speaker at Design Your Life Camp!) Oh, there is something beautiful about creating an experience for other human beings. First, creating a program that thrills me: …
your daily rock : travel light
My daughter Emma is getting ready for a six-week study trip this summer, so traveling light is front of mind for us right now–along with memories of my own college travels with a backpack. (And living light is a big part of my internal conversation these days too.) I’ve written …
your daily rock : learn something new every day
I’m on a quest to learn something new every day. Not big things, necessarily. Not exhausting things that take a lot of time and practice to master. Just little things. Like how to pronounce “err” correctly. Or how much 5/8 of a cup is when you’re baking. Or how to …
your daily rock : this is the time of your life
Some of you are saying, “YES! IT IS!” And others of you are saying, “God, I hope not.” Regardless of your first reaction to this daily rock, this very moment is the only time of your life. It’s the only one you have. The next one? Not guaranteed. What happens …
your daily rock : be part of the solution.
We’ve all heard this before: be part of the solution. And yet many of us don’t step up. Sure, we pass along petitions and posters and shocking news stories on Facebook and Twitter, but often that’s the extent of it. Perhaps it’s because there is so, so much that needs …
your daily rock : you are not broken.
It is easy to feel like we’re broken. So many people are willing to tell us we are. We have pathologized being human. Being human means imperfection. It means discomfort as well as joy. It means we screw up and make messes sometimes. It means we hurt as well as …
your daily rock : practice
I love this word, “practice.” Sure, I practice my fiddle. And I practiced piano for 15 years’ worth of lessons before then. And I’m beginning (again) a meditation practice and a yoga practice. And I’m practicing saying “no” to sugar. In addition to those external, physical practices, I want to …
poets know you are tired.
Click here to listen to “you are tired (I think)” read by me You are tired, (I think) -e.e. cummings You are tired, (I think) Of the always puzzle of living and doing; And so am I. Come with me, then, And we’ll leave it far …
your daily rock : linger longer
Morning is a time to linger longer, one hand on the handle of your mug, one on the New York Times. Evening is a time to linger longer, standing in the kitchen for a moment after cooking dinner, just smelling the spices. Night is a time to linger longer, after …
