your daily rock : make your own way
“Don’t follow a trend. Follow your heart.” -Krist Novoselic It is so easy to follow others, do what they do, reach for success in a way prescribed by gurus. It is so much more meaningful to follow your own heart. Where is your heart leading you? Love, (These beautifully …
your daily rock : refine
“The process of discovering your fearless self is of refinement, not adding.” -Steve Maraboli Leo Tolstoy has said that “truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” A process of refinement. What non-gold can you wash …
your daily rock : get moving!
“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.” -Martha Graham A simple message: Move it or lose it. Can you incorporate movement into your day today? Love, (These beautifully painted rocks …
your daily rock : you are amazing!!
“We are what we believe we are!” -C.S. Lewis You are full of magic and sparkle. Yes, you. Even on days when the sky is gray and people are mean-spirited, you are still amazing. Because being amazing is not contingent on other people or conditions. Can you remember that today, …
your daily rock : bloom where you are planted
“In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.” -Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living Our everyday lives are so potent. The soil is so rich in the every day. A friend always tells me that gardening is putting a …
your daily rock : revel in not knowing
“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. …
your daily rock : take a new path
“So at the end of this day, we give thanks For being betrothed to the unknown.” -John O’Donohue I love the whole idea of desire lines from landscape architecture. And I know that a new path is made up of many steps over time. Into the unknown. Take one. …
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 …
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 …