From the monthly archives:

November 2010

Something Happened

November 30, 2010

I’ve been away. It’s been a day. Or a year.
I might have lost count.
But here’s why…

Thank you all SO MUCH for the amazing response to The Lovely Guide this week. We are just completely awed by your love and support, it’s been more than we could’ve dreamed – y’all are amazing!
One of the best things about this new venture is that here on my blog I’ll be able to focus [...]

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The Lovely Guide

November 15, 2010

There was this dream I had.

I thought it would stay in the ether, never really seeing the light of day or screen or iris.

But then dream stepped over that threshold.
And beauty and pretty and light and
exhaustion and tears and sweat and a little blood too
became this new baby of a site.

And idea let run wild.

Part [...]

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Story Bleed

November 11, 2010

Voraciously I devour it. Taking it in. Piece by piece.
Word by word.
I can’t get enough.
It’s story that always brings me in. Story that holds my heart suspended in the air, the glorious anxiety of it all, never quite knowing if my soul-muscle will come crashing down or instead take flight.
Oh, the agony and ecstasy of a great [...]

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Big Brother

November 9, 2010

THERE was this moment yesterday.
.
.

You had finally slowed down. It was one of those times.
{You know the kind.}
.
.
You sat with me.
We prepared mind and body for mid-day rest.
We prayed.
You wanted me to ask God for a bunny. You hoped it would be in your bed waiting when you woke up.
{If only [...]

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Art Is Medicine

November 5, 2010

Sometimes I see beauty and art and compare.
My life to theirs.
My art to theirs.
Does mine have value?

But then I remember
producing while valuating
is like
writing while editing.
{which I would never do.}

So instead of comparing
I relegate the art and beauty to where it belongs.
To inspire
To heal
To make better.

Your art makes me want to be better at life.
In the [...]

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On Success

November 2, 2010

When days go by and you find the warmth of your bed when it’s already light out…
And the work-life balance is away on holiday…
Perchance there’s something big brewing.

This is my kind of business education.
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