your daily rock : let your life be a poem.
You may not consider yourself an artist, but you are. Every day you are creating your life, your story. As Osho wrote, a statement with which I began my book, Creative is a Verb: “When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great …
your daily rock : say something
We talk about finding our voice. But we have a voice; it isn’t lost. We’re just not using it. Say something. Love, (These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.
your daily rock : be someone’s angel
“Angels have no philosophy but love.” -Terri Guillemets We all need an angel every one in a while. Someone to look out for us, to help us, to grace us with their presence, to show us love. Sometimes angels are just watching and know what we most need. Sometimes they intuit …
your daily rock : think fresh thoughts
Read a magazine you’ve never read before, one you don’t think will be of interest to you. Notice what you notice. Look at things upside down or sideways today–alter your perspective. Notice what you notice. Imagine all the uses you can think of for a chair. What could it be …
simple saturday
This fall has been a simplifying of great proportion for my family. The opening of space that “shedding” process left us with is so satisfying. It feels like we’ve gotten off a big merry-go-round. There is more to do, so on Saturdays in this new year, I will document some …
your daily rock : keep it very simple
I used to create wildly elaborate lists of resolutions, goals, intentions. I’m a list maker. I like making lists and checking things off of them willy-nilly. I liked the challenge of it, the feeling of moving forward, the learning. This year there are no lists. Well, one. With two items …
your daily rock : look within
Stop looking outside yourself for answers, for acceptance, for love, for meaning. Look within instead. How? This is a start: Take 5 minutes today to sit quietly. It is in the spaces between moments, between noises, between actions, that we can look within, when we can still ourselves long enough …
your daily rock : simple wisdom
When life feels too complicated. When life feels too hard. When life feels too tightly wound. Just remember that life is usually far, far more simple than we believe it to be. There is a wisdom in us that we discount because we believe, and are taught to believe, that …
a blessing for the new year
A Blessing for the New Year by John O’Donohue from ‘To Bless the Space Between Us” On the day when The weight deadens On your shoulders And you stumble, May the clay dance To balance you. And when your eyes Freeze behind The gray window And the ghost …
your daily rock : embrace what is
Goodness, it’s a whole new year. Funny how that happens, that change of one page of the calendar and we feel that life begins again. It’s beautiful, that. And yet, every single day, we turn that calendar page. So we can start anew any time. Today, embrace what is. That …
