Posts Tagged ‘change’

My How Things Have Changed

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Friday’s dining excursion made me reminisce about of this picture of me (age 4) with our feathered friend the pigeon – a.k.a. dinner. Here I am feeding the pigeons. Now the pigeons are feeding me. My how things have changed. (more…)

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Crazy Beautiful

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

Maybe this is crazy but I feel that we are on the cusp of some kind of wonderful.  Call me the perennial optimist but I believe the struggles that America is facing are just the precursor to a greater shift in consciousness. We are sick and tired of being sick and tired.  We want more meaning from life, not more things.

So it may be that we are still inundated with the same negative campaign advertisements, same negative discourse amongst pundits or negativity in our own backyards but we cannot deny the fact that there has been an influx of hope into our psyche.  We will still have our own opinion about the current political climate, but we are changed because the general conversation has changed. (more…)

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Living Out Loud

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

I think it’s so brave when people live their lives out in the open – exposing all their goodness and messiness for everyone to see.  It’s not that these people don’t care about what other people think … it’s just that they are propelled to do things despite what other people think.  I used to think that I was like that in my 20s, but I now realize that it was just youthful exuberance and foolhardiness masked as confidence or assuredness. I’ve never been at this place before (that not giving a shit about what other people think place). It’s freeing. (more…)

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