poetry wednesday : you must change your life.
For today’s poetry wednesday, one of my favorite poets and poems: Archaic Torso of Apollo -Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell) We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his …
Your Daily Rock : Make it Your Own
“If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes.” –Cassandra Clare I know we all make mistakes in our lives. We all hurt others, intentionally or unintentionally. I don’t mind that—I think that is how we learn and move …
Tuesday reads.
I just finished reading The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam, the story of her survival of the Cambodian sex trade and her work to end the sexual exploitation of girls and women. This is such a difficult topic–and one many of us don’t know about and don’t …
Your Daily Rock – Let Your Life Be a Poem
In the introduction to my book, Creative is a Verb, I included a quotation from Osho that has great meaning for me: When I say be creative, I don’t mean you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a …
happy 8th birthday, 37days!
Eight years ago today, I started writing 37days. It changed my life. Completely. Not only the writing–finding my way into words in a fuller, more significant way–but also getting to know the amazing community that has gathered around this work and these simple ideas of loving well, living fully, letting …
Your Daily Rock – Say Something
“All I have is a voice.” –W.H. Auden You have a voice. You don’t need to find it. You just need to use it. What do you long to say? Love,
sunday sounds.
Listen, listen, and watch. (I’ll give you one guess as to which moments I loved the most in this.) We love to be delighted. Why don’t we allow ourselves to be delighted more often?
Your Daily Rock – Be Someone’s Angel
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.” — Henry James We all need a little help sometimes. And often, we need help but no one knows it. For many of us, …
Your Daily Rock – Think Fresh Thoughts.
“Creativity consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” -George Kneller As you go through this day, be mindful of what you take for …
Your Daily Rock – Keep it Very Simple
“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” –Steve Jobs Ockham’s razor is a tenet I come back to over and over …
