write-your-own friday : hair
When I studied abroad in Germany in 1981, we traveled for two weeks into a rainy, dark country called East Germany. The trips across the border were frightening, guards in long thick grey woolen jackets boarding the train heavily, then staring at your passport and then up at you for …
thinking thursday.
Every Thursday, just a few links I've discovered, things I'm thinking about. And, of course, a link somewhere to a certain movie star just because. (Where I can follow the serendipitous thread I followed to get there, I'll include a thanks to the person who surfaced it for me.) mind …
found-art tuesday : stones in my pockets
I've got these seven stones in the right waist pocket of my Scottevest travel vest this morning. En route to the airport. A short trip to Las Vegas to give a speech (I love the fact that they used my "Bobby Sherman bio.") And these stones in my pocket to …
mindful monday : when you are lost, you are not alone.
"Last year, when President Kennedy was assassinated, who among us did not experience the most profound disorientation? Despair? Which way? What now? What do I say to my kids? What do I tell myself? It was a time of people sitting together, bound together by a common feeling of hopelessness. …
stepping stone sunday: express a passion
The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra is the national high-school-age youth orchestra of El Sistema, made up of the best young musicians from throughout Venezuela. This week, let pure fantastic hot passion be your stepping stone into each day. Feel something as deeply as this amazing conductor, 28-year-old Gustavo Dudamel, and …
simple saturday. the laws of simplicity.
Simplicity is subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
write-your-own friday : write to your seventeen-year-old self
Go here for write-your-own instructions. Because we're real rule conscious here. Or not. And here, this week's prompt: Write a letter to your seventeen-year-old self. What would you say to that glorious him or her from where you sit now? How would you reassure your younger you? How would you …
thinking thursday.
Every Thursday, just a few links I've discovered, things I'm thinking about. And, of course, a link somewhere to Johnny Depp because, I mean really, look at the man. (Where I can follow the serendipitous thread I followed to get there, I'll include a thanks to the person who surfaced …
