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To Trust – In Our Strengths
24 June 2017 When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when you need to end a war, you get Wonder Woman. ~ Gail Simone Last night … Continue reading
Touchstone – Sculpting Good Questions
15 April 2016 Instead of being in the world, let the world dwell in you. Open yourself up to it all. You won’t loose yourself. You will find you are big enough, bigger than you ever imagined. ~yoga nidra My … Continue reading
Posted in Connection, Finding Enough, Touchstones, Vulnerability
Tagged David Whyte, yoga nidra
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Touchstone – To Boldly Go
18 March 2016 You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an irrational fear of the unknown. But there’s no such thing as the unknown — only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood. ~ Captain James Tiberius Kirk There’s … Continue reading
Full of Myself
9 February 2016 “Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved. ~Marianne Williamson, A Woman’s Worth This week I’ve been seeing … Continue reading
Posted in Being Authentic, Courage, Finding Enough, Vulnerability
Tagged Brene Brown, Marianne Williamson, Mary Oliver, Shonda Rhimes
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Ballast and Keel
19 January 2016 Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers. ~Ester Buchholz It’s been raining in northern California, a … Continue reading
A One Time Only Offer
20 October 2015 “When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?” “What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?” “I say, I wonder what’s going to … Continue reading
Touchstone – Creating a Bullseye
16 October 2015 When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. ~Rumi From early on, my parents raised me to think of other people and put them first. To be practical and sensible … Continue reading
Touchstone – Go, Friend, Go!
25 September 2015 Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~ A.A. Milne I was working through big clots of thoughts about how important friendship is to … Continue reading
Posted in Courage, Friendship, Touchstones, Vulnerability
Tagged Getting Along, Jena Schwartz
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Go, Friend, Go!
22 September 2015 We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. ~Robert Fulghum … Continue reading
Posted in Being Authentic, Courage, Friendship, Satisfaction, Vulnerability
Tagged Robert Fulghum
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Touchstone – Laying Down the Gavel
11 September 2015 “Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together. ~ Brené Brown This morning a friend mentioned that she wanted to open some boxes, pigeonholes where she had set people with whom she’d … Continue reading