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The excerpts below are from the book, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser. It's about the concept of no birth, no death, and a piece of paper. In our minds, when we think of death, we think of suddenly becoming no one. We cease to be. We cease to …
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Parenting unlocks something in you. I don’t think you could anticipate it or prepare for it. It’s a feeling of wanting to give your absolute personal best to someone and you don't know how. It’s thinking about their life. The impact that you want to have.How you hope for them to be in the world …
If I had my life to live over again,I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.I’d relax.I’d limber up.I’d be sillier than I’ve been this trip.I would take fewer things seriously.I would take more chances,I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would, perhaps, have more actual troubles but fewer imaginary ones.you see, …
We are motivated by the desire to fulfill these 6 core needs: CertaintyUncertainty / VarietySignificanceConnection and LoveGrowthContribution We all share these needs, but we place different value on each. It's what makes us different. Based on his experiences working with over 3 million people, Tony Robbins is the one who has coined these 6 fundamental …
What if enlightenment was not a final blessed state? What if it was possible now - we were able to live in a place where we didn’t carry things from the past or want for more. If we could just be.
Did you know that winter is a good time for pruning trees? They enter a state called dormancy and take a rest until the warm spring temperatures arrive. And for some trees, like fruit trees, major pruning work should only be done during the winter to maximize fruit production. Okay, Lainie, but why the random …
Windsurfers.by the StrumbellasThe window looked out to the lakeThe walls smelled of a 100 years of hard daysThe windsurfer stayed in my mindWatching them surf as the hours passed byWho would have thought I'd be hoping to get back nowWho would have thought I'd be hoping to get back no We walked in the night …
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I love Tina Roth Eisenberg. She's the founder of Tattly, Creative Mornings, and multiple other companies. She's creative. She thinks big picture and sees the beauty in every day things. I just watched her DO Lecture. If you want to watch it, just click on the image above. Here's what stood out to me from …
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“How pleasant to walk over beds of these fresh, crisp, and rustling fallen leaves…. How beautiful they go to their graves!” —Thoreau, October 12, 1853 Thoreau, our great chronicler of the seasons, wrote a lot about the falling leaves in October, noting all the different colors and hues. Their colors aside, he thought, like many …
This blog post about community has sat open on my computer, unpublished for a week. I felt like it was missing something. I found it today - while sitting at my desk, putting together 6 paper hexagons. I know it's weird, but I'll show you. I'll share the story in three pieces. I love triptychs …
