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Leap: Finding Meaning in Experiences That Are Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Posted in art, career, movie, New York City, work on January 12, 2012 | 5 Comments »

“And if that’s all you learned from 9/11, if that’s all you remembered, that: My God, you could extinguish life so suddenly, so unexpectedly, and it could happen to me, and therefore I should think harder about the way I spend my life instead of just wasting it. Now, it’s not going to teach you [...]

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Leap: What We’re All Really Doing Here

Posted in choices, decision-making, travel, work on January 8, 2012 | 2 Comments »

“We‘re all just walking each other home.” ~ Ram Dass I read this quote from Ram Dass and it stopped me in my tracks. It reminded me that we are here to be of service to one another. All we’re ever really trying to do is make life a little bit easier, a little happier [...]

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Leap: You’ll Find Opportunity Everywhere. Now, Plan.

Posted in career, nonprofit, work on January 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Since formally announcing my New Year’s Resolution to go my own way in my career this year, I’ve been spotting new opportunities everywhere. It’s as if I’m manufacturing rocks to turn over just to have some place to stash all of the possibilities. The board members of Compass Yoga tease me sometimes about my unending [...]

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Leap: We All Need Soil and Rain, or How to Never Be Intimidated

Posted in entrepreneurship, environment, work, worry on January 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »

“No matter how wondrous our works, we have to remember that our very existence depends upon 6 inches of soil and the fact that it rains now and then.” ~ Dan Lufkin I found this quote on a park bench, literally. Phin and I were taking a walk in Central Park and there are four [...]

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Leap: Longfellow Shows Us How to Keep Our 2012 Resolution

Posted in art, literature, work on January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

My friend, Col, posted A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on her Facebook page as 2011 drew to a close. It’s last stanza, “Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait” is such a beautiful sentiment as [...]

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Beginning: How to Remember the Milk (and Everything Else!)

Posted in business, creative process, creativity, organize, work on December 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Working full-time, running a new nonprofit, plugging away as a freelance writer, keeping up with friends flung across the globe, and taking part in all of the exciting goings-on in New York City can take a toll on even the most organized person. My reflexologist, Heather, said to me on Wednesday, “Christa, your brain is [...]

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Beginning: Career Advice from Andy Rooney

Posted in career, television, work, writing on November 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Last week we lost a great icon of opinion writing. I will never forget the 60 Minutes episode in 2010 where Andy Rooney went to the Super Bowl, a pilgrimage for him for over 40 years running. I loved getting a glimpse of him out from behind his now-famous desk and in the world – [...]

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Beginning: Be Here Like a Duck in the Ocean

Posted in animals, eating, food, nature, work, tagged on October 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“The little duck is at ease in the heaving Atlantic because it is in the Atlantic. Rest in the immediate as though it were infinity.” – Edward Espe Brown, Buddhist monk , chef, and star of the documentary How to Cook Your Life, reading from a poem written by his mother as she was preparing [...]

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Beginning: How I Find the Time

Posted in dogs, Life, time, to-do lists, work, writing, yoga, tagged on September 4, 2011 | 5 Comments »

“You have to live your life spherically, in many directions.” ~ Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun A lot of people ask me how I can live such a varied life with so many interests that don’t necessarily fit together in a logical way. I like being a Renaissance woman; I love figuring just how [...]

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Beginning: Knowing When to Walk

Posted in career, work, yoga, tagged on September 3, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I’ve been speaking with a number of potential partners for Compass Yoga as I explore the possibility of offering on-site yoga classes. Classes begin at the Manhattan VA Hospital on October 7th. The VA development came about so quickly because one of the clinical directors has practiced yoga for quite a few years and believes [...]

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