5/31/07

I had lunch yesterday with my Wednesday child, Ally. She leaves today for Ashland, Oregon – no job, no place to live – seeking a summer of adventure. Then in the fall she is off to Chicago to work for Second City Improv. Not audition for, not apply for, not try for, but work for.

She reminded me of myself when I was younger – full of dreams and optimism, passion for life and craft and boundless courage.

Stu and I have been talking lately that we feel old. We find ourselves being more hesitant, more fearful and – dare I say the word – conservative. And it doesn’t feel right.

But after my visit with Ally I felt like myself again – full of energy, enthusiasm and dreams.

So, if you are stuck in rut, feeling old, take a twentysomething out to lunch. And let them remind you how to dream.

5/30/07

When was the last time you did something for the first time? ~ Kobi Yamada, Ever Wonder

5/29/07

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

and so begins another ponderings series, this one will be on questions. the source is a wonderful little book i just picked up called ever wonder by kobi yamada.

5/25/07

Either you will go through this door or you will not go through. If you go through there is always the risk of remembering your name. ~ Adrienne Rich

5/21/07

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. ~ Henry David Thoreau

5/18/07

Dreams become reality when we keep our commitment to them. ~ Judy Wardell Halliday

5/16/07

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. ~ Walt Disney

5/14/07

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. ~ Bertrand Russell

5/11/07

5/10/07

The most I can do should be the least that I attempt. ~ Tim Hale

5/8/07

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. ~ Goethe

5/7/07

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

5/5/07

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. ~ The Gospel of St. Thomas: Logion 45

5/2/07

When we are inspired, ideas that are living inside of us will find a way to be expressed. ~ John Kavelin, The Imagineering Workout

5/1/07

Do not reach up to the heavens when you want to touch a star. Reach inside. Your soul is full of them. ~ Terri McPherson