Category Archives for quotes
Remember & learning my way through grief
I woke this morn with the image of the flower on the left side of this journal spread, made back in 2009, in my mind. Today would be my mother’s 55th birthday. Saturday will be the sixth anniversary of her death. I didn’t—couldn’t—speak at her funeral, so instead friends got together and organized much of […]
Release: My word for 2013
In past years, I’ve had to constantly tumble ideas for a “word of the year” around in my head, discovering over time which are nicked or just don’t fit right in the palm of my hand, discarding those until I find the one smooth encapsulation of my heart’s desire for the next 365 days. This […]
Hard & True
Four years ago today, I saw my mother for the last time. I held and stroked her hand. I listened too intensely the sound of her breathing. I was 28 and my brother was 11. She had just celebrated her 48th birthday four days earlier. In the late hours of the evening, she died as […]
Soul-full
Think about what makes you different and what you do that lights people up. Reflect on all the things that make you different—you’ll find they’re what make you beautiful. Last month, I wrote a bit about an exercise from The Declaration of You e-course where I asked friends and family what they admired about me, […]
1 word 4 2010
One Word. Encapsulate the year 2010 in one word. Explain why you’re choosing that word. Now, imagine it’s one year from today, what would you like the word to be that captures 2011 for you? When someone gets it at last, we exclaim, “FI-nally!” When we’re making our closing point, wrapping things up, the word […]
