Life is better when you’re curious
I’m just a lifelong learner and I believe in a strengths based approach, which means focus on what you do well and get stronger in it. Curiosity is a great way to increase enthusiasm and build on your strengths!
Life is Lifing at you
My inner people pleaser and controller deeply wants to identify problems at every turn. Criticism as a form of love is an ancestral pattern I am ending in my generation, which centers from my thought life.
I’m starting to understand why people won’t wear masks
You don’t wear a mask for yourself you wear it for other people. It’s like avoiding drunk driving–obviously you’re putting yourself in danger but folks who didn’t make the choice to drive drunk don’t deserve to die because of your poor decision making.
I found myself craving the News lately
I wonder do they feel invincible? Do they think this is made up? I understand people needing to go back to work and I don’t judge them, but I am really curious about the partiers. And I say this as someone who was dubbed the “Plus Size Party Girl” by Time Out New York. I get partying, I love to socialize. But not if it risks death or serious injury to me or others.
When I’m Grieving I Turn to Two Things
Call your people. Dance.
Call someone you haven’t talked to in years. Dance.
Report from my friend protesting in Tulsa
Cris shared about going to Tulsa, OK (she lives in Arkansas) with her daughter to protest the Trump rally on June 20th. Her reflections on the MAGA (“Make America Great Again”–a euphemism for white) folks were hilarious. “It’s a bunch of drunk white guys not wearing masks.”
Quarantine Pods
The only real “right” thing I can make sense of in these times is to follow my gut instinct, ask questions and rely on trust with people.
This is not a moment it’s the movement
Hamilton reminds me of legacy. The first part of that is knowing that rabble rousers and resisters existed before us and we build our movements on the work already laid before us. It can feel daunting to dismantle systems of oppression but it’s not work that will start or end with us!
No ray of sunshine is ever lost
(This post is a series of daily letters from me to my future children reporting from the emerging paradigm.) Dear Kids: Entering month 4 of Covid quarantine soon (I call March 15th, the Ides of March, the moment it became clear we were really doing shelter in place) and it feels scarier now than it […]
All About That Bass
Here’s hoping more people dance around in their underwear loving their tummies to All About That Bass.
Finding heaven on earth, experiencing life as a gift every day, that’s a vacation all the time mindset I seek. (Regardless of whether I’m able to travel.) Being willing to get uncomfortable everyday is the growth edge I seek to become 1% better everyday.
I hope you dance
(This post is a series of daily letters from me to my future children reporting from the emerging paradigm.) Dear Kids: One of the coolest parts of being over forty is that I have the wisdom of experience to match with my foresight. When I was a young adult I was full of very strong, […]