Posts Tagged ‘Living Authentically’
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Over the past couple of weeks I have gotten back in touch with two friends (Hi Melissa! Hi Andrea!) that I haven’t talked to in years. I have Facebook to thank for these serendipitous reunions and I can’t help but to think that their entrance back into my life is a manifestation of the positive life changes that I am making. It’s amazing how happiness reveals itself when you surrender to the possibilities. So woo-woo sounding, I know.
In conjunction to these great events I’ve also met a ton of new people through the internets and blogosphere, some who I have met and some who I have not met yet. It is so great to make connections with other mothers, writers, tech enthusiasts, crazy folks and just a huge crosscut of people from all over the world. And all through this little 15.4 inch laptop screen with a DSL connection. Amazing. (more…)
Tags: aimee greeble, andrea, election, facebook, greeblemonkey, happiness, internets, jim benson, Living Authentically, melissa, ourfounder, sharyn morrow, weapons of mass distraction
Posted in Daily, Friendship | 6 Comments »
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…)
Tags: barack obama, change, gwen bell, happiness, Life, Living Authentically, Midthirties Crisis, Milestones, yes we can
Posted in Daily, Midthirties Crisis | 10 Comments »
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Okay, now that the puppy love affair with blogging is over, we can now proceed to what I like to call, “the maintenance phase.” When I started blogging back in August, it was with a type of fervor you often see in a new relationship. I was writing daily posts, sometimes two, sometimes three (most of which I’ve taken down). If I wasn’t blogging, I was reading blogs or commenting on blogs or even reading about how to blog! I love you, no I love you more!
EVERYTHING became blogging fodder … I’m riding the bus, I’ll write about it! I’m eating a sandwich, who doesn’t want to know about that! In the first month I had almost 800 unique visitors and 1,600 page views. I was writing and people were reading and this was (and still is) inconceivable to me. You must understand that most of the time I am talking to my daughter and she takes “not listening to me” to a whole new level. It’s so sad, but true. So to have a venue where I put something out there and people actually read it – well it’s gratifying.
But like with any relationship, after about the first month you start thinking in terms of longevity. Do I really want to be in this relationship? Maybe we should take a break. And so I took a break. What I found, of course, is that I really like writing. I missed it. So maybe I’m not as spiritually evolved as I would like to be. Or maybe I’m not the best writer. Who cares? I, like the rest of you, am just trying to find a little piece of happiness.
Tags: Living Authentically
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