If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed . Thanks for visiting!My entire day yesterday was spent in rest to prepare for my planned 30 days of 30 celebration last night. Ready for it? I attended a good friend’s elementary school band and orchestra concert AND I helped tune/work with the beginning and advanced flautists. Doesn’t sound like it would require a full day’s prep, but let me tell you, the prep was absolutely necessary. Here’s the …
“The choice to love is a choice to connect—to find ourselves in the other.” bell hooks, All About Love We are a people hardwired for connection and it’s in and through our relationships with others that we come to best know ourselves. At its heart, connection, relationships, self-awareness, and reflection are what my 30 days of 30 is all about: I get 30 days to celebrate the completion of 30 years of life and to acknowledge all of the intricacies that …
At the end of this month, I’ll turn 30; for months I thought of ways I could celebrate: I could try to raise some increment of 30 for 3 different charities ($1000 to each= $3000), I could try 30 new things… The list went on and on until the moment that I realized there were 30 days in June: I would be 30 and there were 30 days. It couldn’t be coincidence! Each day, throughout the month of June, …
Ursula Le Guin is one of my favorite female science fiction authors. A few weeks ago, I wrote her a card, enclosed a SASE, and * asked for signed bookplates . Today, they arrived in the mail. Joy, is a tangible connection to an author whom I admire and who has influenced my work. * When I sent my SASE/card, she still had the offer for bookplates posted. I must have just made it in under the wire.
