Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
-Carl Jung
It’s been a big week. Understatement of the century. It’s been a historically and politically raucous year that just climaxed with the most wildly controversial election of our time. How are you doing?
Read MoreThe more important the activity is to our soul’s evolution, the more resistance you will feel.
-Steven Pressfield
I’d like to introduce you to my new friend, Procrastination. Well, he’s not really new, quite old come to think of it. We go way back. I suppose we’ve rekindled something as of late, something good, different.
Read MorePlease think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.
-Gary Vaynerchuck
I have a confession to make.
Despite years of deep south steeping growing up in Mobile, AL, I have never been a huge fan of country music. In fact, I always felt like the odd man out during those fragile years of middle school when the cool kids where discovering the likes of Alan Jackson, The Judds, John Michael Montgomery, and most curiously to me, Billy Ray Cyrus. I was totally stumped, yet went along with it as my awkward stage lasted painfully longer than everyone else’s and I had just switched to a preppy new school. The part of me that wanted to be liked was much bigger than the part that couldn’t be bothered.
Read MoreHospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
-Henri Nouwen
I love food: the planning, shopping, prepping, pairing, cooking, eating, hell, I don’t even mind the cleaning up so much. My most domestic moments happen in the kitchen. Laundry? Not my gig, much to my husband’s chagrin. Cooking has always been a creative outlet as well as a therapeutic one for me. For a hot minute in my mid-twenties I toyed with the idea of culinary school yet found in my short-lived career as a sous chef at a local wine bar/cafe that cooking on someone else’s watch for people I couldn’t actually connect with was a deal breaker; it hijacked the joy of it.
Read MoreWinning is showing up, staying present in our truth, and leaning into love every step of the way.
Did anyone besides me watch the Olympic Opening Ceremony last Friday night? Well, despite apparent low network ratings (38% down from 2012’s London Ceremony), and a self-proclaimed nervy and “slow” catwalk strut delivered by the ever leggy and lovely Brazilian bombshell, Gisele Bündchen, I was totally mesmerized. The grand parade of nations proudly flying their flags, donning those thoughtfully designed and crafted costumes, one after another, oozed a colorful and unmasked joy that was completely contagious; that buzzy energy, palpable.
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