your daily rock : show up for others today
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.” -David Foster Wallace, This is Water What does it mean to …
your daily rock : bend
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.-Albert Camus In June 1992, I was hugely pregnant with my older daughter, Emma, and at a conference in Las Vegas. At 4:57am on June 28th, I woke up to what I knew immediately was an earthquake, though I …
sunday sounds.
One amazing 15-year-old storyteller. Our lives are made up of stories, not atoms. We are constructing road as we go. (Thanks to Martha Atkins for pointing me to this)
your daily rock : be open to change
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” -Anaïs Nin It is so easy to love being, and so hard to …
your daily rock : what do you need?
“There’s never enough of the stuff you can’t get enough of.” -Patrick H.T. Doyle Maybe what you need is less. Love,
convenient truths.
I’ve written before about giving up the need to be right. But it is a hard, hard thing to let go of, I continue to find. Particularly when you are right. Smile. This week’s (unsurprising and unsatisfying) admission by Lance Armstrong–and the ways in which he has spent many years …
your daily rock : love your imperfection
“We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That’s what connects us–that we’re all broken, all beautifully imperfect.” -Emilio Estevez We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. And yet we try so hard to hide the cracks. What if we displayed them, instead? Like the Japanese who fix broken pottery with seams of …
thinking thursday.
mind Is Delhi so different from Steubenville? A few quotes from this insightful article: “Americans watched the events after the Delhi gang rape with a whiff of condescension at the barbarity there, but domestic violence and sex trafficking remain a vast problem across the United States.” “Gender violence is one …
your daily rock : say “wow”
“I used to get caught up in drama, and now when there is drama, I just say ‘wow.’” -Cindy Dollar In 2010, a friend of mine died in mid-sentence, another died after two years of the agony of Lou Gehrig’s disease, another friend’s life changed irrevocably in one regrettable instant. …
your daily rock : be thrilled by small things
“The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one’s home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.” -Barbara Pym We plan big events, and wait for big moments in our lives. …
