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Too Busy to Know
My initial reaction was, “I’m too busy to know.” I didn’t say this out loud. It felt like an answer that should easily flow. And the too busy part . . . well, I didn’t want to whine. The question...
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Keeping Your Distance
There’s a big difference between looking through the glass at life and being ankle deep in it.I just came back from one of those big trips you take when you want to feel alive again. You go not just...
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The Weight We Carry
We only had fifteen minutes. “I think we can do this,” I said as we parked our car in the bus station parking lot. My husband and I hopped out and headed for a lone boulder in the overgrown grass,...
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Announcing My New Gift Book: Knowing Beautiful
I'm thrilled to announce my new gift book, Knowing Beautiful is almost here with an official publication date of November 1! I believe it's time for women to have a new bedtime story; one that tucks...
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Do You Own Your Inspiration?
Hawk Hill, San Francisco I am in the inspiration business. It is hard to say out loud; especially at cocktail parties. It can feel insignificant when facing the question, “What do you do?”Today I’m...
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When Gift Lists Make You Cranky
“I don’t really need anything . . . and I really don’t feel like coming up with a list.” This was my answer to my mother’s sweet inquiry into my Christmas wishes. I hung up and felt a bit cranky...
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Happy New Year
It’s barely dawn. The local urban rooster has just ushered me into today. He was eager to start. Unlike most dark mornings, I am too. You can feel this weighty sliver of time. A fresh, open canvas...
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We were about to head home. It had been a sweet excursion for my sister and me: a day of adventure and play at a full day yoga festival. It was one of those backdrops that made you feel free, happy,...
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When you Admire Up Close
Artist: LeeAnn Brook Have you noticed how often you admire from afar? Someone’s shoes, home, smile, kindness, parenting, courage, intelligence, accomplishments, intuition, talent . . . It can show...
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When There's Nowhere Else to Go
Source: Amy Tirion, Santorini, Greece We are a forward moving and thinking culture. We’ve been conditioned to have a plan in our pocket at all times; our eye on the horizon and a known path to get...
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Showing Up
Darkness had settled in for the night and the desert temperature was falling. It was my first time at Burning Man, a festival devoted to acts of gift giving, self expression and community that is...
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If I Let My Life Happen
We gave my nephew a butterfly kit for his fifth birthday. It’s a bittersweet present. You watch your tiny larvae hatch, grow into caterpillars, go through a miraculous transformation, take their...
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Withholding Magnificence
Borghese Gallery Azzedine Alaia’s couture gown Magnificence is a rarely used word. Reserved for bigger than life. A display of greatness, or rather grandness, that doesn’t really fit in daily...
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So you are back at it? It's Okay.
I’m straddling life right now. Are you? Anticipating the changing of the guards. Two weeks into a new year that sets expectations that things will be different. That I should be different. Not...
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Selecting Your Silence
Dear Friends,You haven't heard from me in a while. There is a lot of noise coming at us. And new media channels suggest that we always need to be seen and heard. Sometimes these channels add...
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