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 …
thinking thursday.
mind Thanks to Pamela for sharing this article about Understanding Asperger’s. I recognized in reading this article about adults with Asperger’s, I am mostly concerned for Tess as an adult, certainly after John and I are no longer alive to be supports for her. How can we create those …
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. …
poetry wednesday : one today
“One Today” -Richard Blanco One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores, peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies. One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story told by …
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. …
tuesday reads.
Still working on Half of a Yellow Sun and Keeper. Watching the author of Half of a Yellow Sun’s TED talk again. Thinking about narratives a lot. I’m loving reading Keeper to Tess at bedtime. Before I started it, I read an irate review from someone horrified that the old …
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 …
