your daily rock : create a safe place
We can’t fully play or learn or thrive or create without a safe place. Do you have one? A place you can be your full self? What would that safe place look and feel like for you? What’s the first step to creating it? Make that first step today. Love, …
your daily rock : make a memory today
We often think making a memory has to be the result of a Big Event. Sometimes it is. But more often, making a memory consists of tiny moments shared between two people. Eating a bowl of Cheerios together. Sitting together quietly and watching the sunset one evening. Laughing on the …
gone canoeing!
Last summer, I took Tess on her first plane ride. We went to Minneapolis to see my friend Nancy, who quickly became Tess’ good and trusted friend. We surprised a reader of mine at her high school graduation near Minneapolis. We had a blast. Here’s what I wrote about …
your daily rock : take notice
Notice the color orange all day today. What did you discover? Love, (These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.
your daily rock : infuse your life with color!
While I’m not a fan of the word or idea of “bomb,” I have always loved this idea: “Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high …
your daily rock : get off the fence
Leap. Love, (These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.
your daily rock : create new patterns
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. -Tuli Kupferberg We’ve talked about breaking old patterns, about recognizing our way out of them instead of repeating our way into them. (Recognition is key–without realizing what those patterns are, we can’t break them except superficially.) What happens when those old patterns are …
your daily rock : give someone an award!
At the end of Tess’ camp this summer, families of the campers gathered for their talent show. Some kids sang, some built things from Legos, some at the last moment couldn’t be persuaded to move from their chairs to participate. It didn’t matter. In their own way, they each made …
your daily rock : share the burden
I think human beings are hard-wired for community. And communities are hard-wired for helping, for holding space for each other, for sharing our burdens in order to lighten all of them in that moment. If we don’t share our burden, we are prisoners to our own shame. If we don’t …
your daily rock : be the change
The first post I ever wrote on 37days was about the killing of Kitty Genovese and the bystander effect. She’s the young woman savagely stabbed to death in 1964 on a New York street with 38 people watching from their apartment windows. As Martin Gansberg reported in The New York …
