Posted in grateful, gratitude, kindness, thankful, thanksgiving, tagged postaday2011 on February 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” ~ Claude Monet “The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.” ~ John E. Southard A friend of mine recently lost her job. I met with her to talk about some new possibilities and how I could [...]
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Posted in art, theatre on February 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Today is a big day for the off-Broadway show Freud’s Last Session – it reaches the mark of its 200th performance. I went to see the show a few months ago (read my review here) and fell in love with the piece. It centers around the possibly true-to-life meeting between C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud, [...]
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Posted in choices, decision-making, priorities, tagged postaday2011 on February 26, 2011 | 4 Comments »
“All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.” ~ Robert Collier Last week Dailygood ran a piece about letting go of certain possibilities. I thought about that idea all day. I felt not that I didn’t have enough options but that I had too [...]
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Posted in art, discovery, tagged postaday2011 on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ~ Thomas Merton I love the power of art to inspire us, to help us reach higher ground, while also taking us away from our day-to-day lives and giving us the permission to dream of a different way of being. It helps [...]
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Posted in art, music, simplicity on February 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last Friday afternoon my office offered a few sets of tickets to Sting’s company-sponsored concert at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, and I was lucky enough to get to go. I’ve never seen Sting in concert and he’s one of my favorite artists. His consistency and relentless focus on just the music has stood [...]
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Posted in choices, creativity, opportunity, passion, patience, tagged postaday2011 on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” ~ Henry Miller Every morning I walk 5 blocks to the subway, and some mornings I don’t remember a single step that I took to get there. I’m out ahead of [...]
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Posted in change, travel, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on February 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“The way you arrive somewhere affects your experience once you’re there.” ~ Jason Crandell How we arrive in a destination, the physical act of how we get to that first step at our destination is often an experience we barely consider. We’re rushing out the plane, train, car, or subway in effort to get somewhere, [...]
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Posted in costa rica, courage, writing, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on February 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
“Falling out of balance doesn’t matter, really and truly. How we deal with that moment and how we find out way back to center, every day, again and again – that is the practice of yoga…it’s about trusting that you will find your way.” ~ Cyndi Lee, Founder of OM Yoga This month’s issue of [...]
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Posted in happiness, opportunity, patience, tagged postaday2011 on February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” ~ James Oppenheim via my friend Sue’s Facebook page “If only” is a dangerous way to begin a thought. If only we had more money, time, lived here, had this relationship, job, house, project, contact, opportunity. And on and on [...]
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Posted in choices, decision-making, silence, simplicity, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on February 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” ~ Virginia Woolf via Yoga Vibes “The soul lives there in the quiet breath.” ~ Rumi When we have a problem to solve, a challenge to overcome, or an important decision to make, we have a tendency to [...]
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