your daily rock : follow the thread
“We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.” -Henry Ward Beecher I love libraries for many reasons, among them this one: Wandering in library stacks is a beautifully physical …
a hands free life.
On Monday of this week, I deleted Facebook, Twitter, Hootsuite, and Pinterest from my iPhone. There is not much to do on there now but make phone calls (gasp) and take photographs. On Tuesday, I downloaded onto my laptop an add-on to Firefox called Leechblock, which allows me to block …
your daily rock : drop everything and help
“I don’t want to live in the kind of world where we don’t look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I can’t change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I …
thinking thursday.
mind Why are the arts the first things schools cut when budgets get tight? They should be the last. Girls need to read books about mighty girls. AND SO DO BOYS. I am trying to imagine what Tess’ sensory overload might be like for her. The author asks what it …
your daily rock : focus your attention
“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” -Mary Oliver We are so distracted. Texting while eating. Checking email while talking. The list goes on and on. What does fully paying attention even look like anymore? Can you put down your electronics today? Love, (These beautifully painted rocks …
your daily rock : detach from being right
“Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.” –Goenka Ask yourself these four questions when you are stubbornly clinging to being right: Why do you think …
tuesday reads.
Tess and I finished Keeper last week–it was a complex book and one we loved reading together. At the end, we rushed up to bedtime early to see how everything turned out. There were moments of real knowing, real loss, and real suspense. Now, given her interest in physics and …
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 …
sunday sounds.
Let’s all say this every morning ten times: I am a king. You can’t deny me my kingdom. Thanks, Erin.
