Posted in dreams, hope, inspiration, nature, writing on December 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” ~ Henry David Thoreau This is my 365th day of actively seeking out and writing about hope. This was my one New Year’s Resolution for 2009: to feel more hopeful and [...]
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Posted in adventure, family, holiday, travel on December 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I recently saw the movie, Up!, an animated feature about Mr. Fredrickson, a grumpy old man remarkably similar in appearance and demeanor to Mr. Cunningham from Happy Days. All their lives, he and his wife dreamed of an adventure to South America, and she passed away before they had the chance to go. Wanting to [...]
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Posted in art, career, dreams, writing, yoga on December 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“The artists’ role is to do what’s honest for them. So if you’re in New York and everyone is looking at the floor, you can look up. It’s not your role to follow the others. It’s your role to go to your center and then reflect that, not just to be a mirror to what’s [...]
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Posted in art, books, inspiration, New York City, theatre, travel on December 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” ~ Jack London, author Before 2009, I used to think of inspiration a something that just hits us. I kept a folder of inspirational pictures, stories, quotes, and clippings that I trolled through when I needed some uplifting thoughts and none [...]
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Posted in calm, holiday, time on December 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” ~ Albert Einstein December 26th, forever relegated to its place as ‘the day after Christmas’. A lot of people sleep in; many are on vacation; it begins the long, slow slide into the new year. A day of “lull”, and well-deserved after the shopping, eating, [...]
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Posted in books, childhood, Christmas, dreams, gratitude, Randy Pausch, writer, writing on December 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last year I wrote a few posts about Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture. I first watched him give the Last Lecture on YouTube through tear-filled eyes and had to take myself for a long walk 3 months later when I read about his passing. His Last Lecture, devoted entirely to his pursuit of childhood dreams, reminded [...]
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Posted in Christmas, family, holiday, travel, writing on December 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Writing has a funny little dichotomy: it is a mostly solitary activity whose content is greatly influenced by social interaction. That balance between living life and writing about it can be a tricky one to manage, particularly if you write on a part-time basis while working at another full-time job. And yet, that balance is [...]
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Posted in decision-making, Examiner, goals, New Years Eve on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So here it is: time to crank out a list of lofty resolutions that you know will never last past January 31st, right? Don’t do this to yourself. Please. You’ll feel like a failure, and that’s just not fair to do that to yourself. Examiner.com knows this, and they’ve asked all of their writers to [...]
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Posted in community, community service, film, Muppet on December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Sunday night I watched A Very Merry Muppet Christmas on TV. Kermit and his pals realize their dream of having their own theatre only to have it threatened by a scheming landlord who wants to shut them down to open a posh new nightclub. Kermit blames himself for losing the fight to save the [...]
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