9/29/07

It’s never too late in fiction or in life to revise. ~ Nancy Thayer

9/28/07

Today is my last day of work. As of this afternoon (and most likely until after we move next summer), I will be gainfully unemployed (or as Stu prefers to put it, a kept woman ;)

I want to say thank you for all the support and encouragement everyone has given me over the past few months. I think I can safely say I have the best group of friends and family in the world - as well as the most interesting! ;)

Monday I begin my new life. And although I have plans and ideas, I really dont know what the future will bring. But I have faith. Faith in life, faith in my imagination and faith in myself.

And after all, all it takes is faith and trust and a little bit of pixie dust ;)

Thanks again everyone. May we all live to see our dreams come true.

;)

9/27/07

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation. ~ Aristotle

9/26/07

We need to play so that we can rediscover the magical around us. ~ Flora Calao

9/25/07

Challenge the edges of your comfort. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, Lean Forward Into Your Life

9/19/07

yo ho and avast, mateys! today be international talk like a pirate day! so grab yer pirate thesaurrrrrus and have yerself some fun!

have ye questions? check out t' talk like a pirate faq. barnacles on your translator? try this here one online! for emails to yer landlubber friends, try out t' pirate keyboard!

post your pirate jokes t' me blog! my favorite be "what kind o' socks does a pirate wear? - arrrrgyle!"

so don't ye be a scurvy rat, me hearties! join the parrrrty and talk like a pirate t'day!

(grog and plundering optional)

9/18/07

Look at me – I’m swimming! ~ Roo

9/17/07

When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs.

I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves and in reality exist only in our minds. We're afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our Congressman--whatever it is that we would really like to do but don't because of perceived obstacles.

Don't avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And if you do, at least you'll have a place to sit down.

~ Pierce Vincent Eckhart

seemed an appropriate ponderings to post on the day i get laid off ;)

(thanks, ginger!)

9/15/07

i dare you to watch this without smiling ;)

http://veryfunnyads.com/ads/25502.html

(thanks to ginger a.k.a. she-who-finds-amazing-things-on-the-web)

9/14/07

How do I choose to spend the currency of myself? The currency of my being. My energy is the most profound fiscal instrument. In what, in whom, will I invest today? ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, Lean Forward Into Your Life

9/13/07

Our heads are round to allow our thoughts to change direction. ~ Francis Picabia

9/12/07

We are remembered from the ways we have walked our ideals. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, Lean Forward Into Your Life

9/11/07

tracking acts of human kindness...from my daughter katie. kleenex recommended.

http://www.behospitable.com

9/10/07

Life is the biggest school there is. Show up. Take notes. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, Lean Forward Into Your Life

9/6/07

One can create mildly. One can live at a low flame. Most people do. We're afraid to look foolish, or feel too extravagantly, or make a mistake, or risk unnecessary pain….For some, life is an exercise in moderation. The best china is saved for special occasions and thus rarely enjoyed. One fears intensity. But, given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply? ~ Diane Ackerman, Deep Play

9/5/07

get lost: that’s how you find your way back to yourself. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, Lean Forward Into Your Life

9/4/07

You are obliged to go off at a tangent if you want to stop going around in circles. ~ Alan Fletcher, Picturing and Poeting

9/3/07

live with intention.
walk to the edge.
listen hard.
laugh.play with abandon.
practice wellness.
continue to learn.
appreciate your friends.
choose with no regret.
do what you love.
live as if this is all there is.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher, Lean Forward Into Your Life