Fashioning an inspired life
When you are in the middle of something, it’s easy to feel muddled. You can get so caught between the regrets of the past and the worries of the future that your current situation can feel like tremulous water trapped in-between. Or it can be that the amount of things to do and information to process at one time hits you like an inescapable wave, shaking up…
You cringe. Your insides clench into a fist. That wasn’t me. I’m better than that. Ugh, why did I say it that way? Why didn’t I tell them that? Why did I have to yell? These are the moments, the moments when you want to shrink into the furthest corners of yourself. You want to forget that you exist or that you can be so…
Awhile back, I wrote a post called “Renewal Through Reading: Anais Nin.” In it, I shared some quotes from one of my all-time favorite authors I turn to when I need to hear some raw yet refined truth. Today, I felt a tugging urge to share a “musical renewal” version after being overwhelmed by a beautiful song. You know when a sound and a lyric work together to hit you with…
“You should blog about your travels,” she said, staring at me from across table, coffee cup in hand. It was a midday catch-up session and I was talking about an imminent trip to NYC. “Yes,” I thought. Yes. Such an obvious thing that I rarely think to do. Sure, I think of it and have done it a few times before, but it somehow never reaches the top of…
I’m a believer in finding things that empower you, whether that be a new haircut that makes you feel fresh and pulled together or a corner filled with flowers and candles that, when arranged just so, emanate a warmth previously lacking. It’s these moments, the ones within our control, that can help us see things differently and react to others with more light. Maybe it’s the…
Does a day ever feel doomed to you? You wake up heavy, sludge through the tasks, can’t seem to get any work done and top it off by dropping your bike key into a canal. Oh wait, maybe I am just talking about myself..sometimes it feels like there is an atmosphere clinging to you, one not easily shrugged off. No amount of coffee can assuage it….