sunday sounds.
One amazing 15-year-old storyteller. Our lives are made up of stories, not atoms. We are constructing road as we go. (Thanks to Martha Atkins for pointing me to this)
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 …
your daily rock : what do you need?
“There’s never enough of the stuff you can’t get enough of.” -Patrick H.T. Doyle Maybe what you need is less. Love,
convenient truths.
I’ve written before about giving up the need to be right. But it is a hard, hard thing to let go of, I continue to find. Particularly when you are right. Smile. This week’s (unsurprising and unsatisfying) admission by Lance Armstrong–and the ways in which he has spent many years …
your daily rock : love your imperfection
“We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That’s what connects us–that we’re all broken, all beautifully imperfect.” -Emilio Estevez We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. And yet we try so hard to hide the cracks. What if we displayed them, instead? Like the Japanese who fix broken pottery with seams of …
thinking thursday.
mind Is Delhi so different from Steubenville? A few quotes from this insightful article: “Americans watched the events after the Delhi gang rape with a whiff of condescension at the barbarity there, but domestic violence and sex trafficking remain a vast problem across the United States.” “Gender violence is one …
your daily rock : say “wow”
“I used to get caught up in drama, and now when there is drama, I just say ‘wow.’” -Cindy Dollar In 2010, a friend of mine died in mid-sentence, another died after two years of the agony of Lou Gehrig’s disease, another friend’s life changed irrevocably in one regrettable instant. …
poetry wednesday : all the hemispheres
All the Hemispheres By Hafiz Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcomed season Onto the meadows and shores and hills. Open up to the Roof. Make a new water-mark on your excitement And love. Like a blooming night flower, Bestow your …
tuesday reads.
This week, I’m reading Half of a Yellow Sun by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The novel takes place in Nigeria during the Nigerian-Biafran War in 1967-1970 and shows the effect of the war through the dynamic relationships of four people’s lives. It makes me want to read other works …
your daily rock : ignore what people say
“…here’s what I’ve learned – people will hurt you, but you don’t have to respond – not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed …” -John Geddes, A Familiar Rain One of Don Miguel Ruiz’ Four Agreements is this: “Don’t Take Anything Personally.” This is a practice …
