Fashioning an inspired life
I have a dear friend, and her name is Rachel. Maybe you’ve met her before, here and here. We’ve been friends since 4th grade. That’s a long time! And since the Valentine’s Day candy is still fresh and the flowers alive, I thought it was the perfect moment to share our long-time friend love with you via Rachel’s latest musical venture. That’s right, because my friend is now in…
I’m beginning to think you’re a daydreamer. You’re like air, always floating. You get lost in your head, swirling around. I’ve heard it all. I simultaneously love and hate this aspect of myself. While I can improve on certain qualities of my being (read: I can weigh myself down with a healthy dose of practicality), I know I will never, nor do I really want to, fundamentally change…
I woke up with an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia. I was in that tender place of almost lucid dreaming, hovering between worlds. It was raining. I was on my hands and knees washing my old not-quite-navy blue yoga mat on the driveway of the home where I grew up. I was trying to scrub out these brownish-black marks that had eaten into the foamy material….
Sometimes I feel like the guy in this illustration. I don’t want to feel like the guy in this illustration. In fact, there is a lot of self-loathing going on when I think about why I feel like the guy in this illustration. Take a look at this man. He is hunched over, clearly weighed down by something. He is carrying a burden, of what…
Consume, consume, consume. That’s often how I feel when I travel. I’m like a sponge soaking everything in. Swelling, swelling, swelling. Unaware of my own capacity. But as I’m consuming I have the irking feeling that I should be doing more. I should be breathing out as often as I’m breathing in. But someone please tell me how that works because it seems I can’t…
Sometimes you put things off. And, if you’re like me, you can put those things off for a shamefully long time. Whether that thing be paying a parking ticket (ehm, still need to get to that one..), washing the dishes or writing that article that is due in approximately one days time. Excuses are abundant and you are oh-so-good at making justifications. But the truth of the…