Photo Credit: Evan Leeson via Compfight Today my friend Ricardo Jimenez is our substitute teacher. Since I’m working on my annual birthday post, a few subs will be filling in for me until Thursday. Several days ago I was laid off by Dell. My position was terminated and was offered to apply to other open [...]
Photo Credit: 1$WEAR via Compfight The other day I asked Patti Digh how we could live like we’re dying. Let’s face it. We’re all dying…just at different speeds. She said something along the lines of making the day to day our masterpiece. You get to see that you’re aging when you look in the mirror. [...]
Photo Credit: Daniel Zedda via Compfight “We don’t often allow ourselves to be surprised as adults. Our unwillingness or inability to be wowed is exactly the problem—we equate being surprised with being unprepared and naive” – Patti Digh If it doesn’t light your eyes up then why the heck are you doing it? I know [...]
Photo Credit: filin ilia – aliyo.hu via Compfight If you were buying a house,and the painter said “we’ll have to paint the walls pink. You need to be flexible”, chances are you’d fire the guy. Yet when it comes to something far more important, your personal life, the people you spend your time with, and [...]
Photo Credit: غzǻҰёll ♥ RAINBOW ! via Compfight Real life and the things that cause us to grow 10 feet in a year happen outside your comfort zone. I love the this story from Patti Digh’s book Life is a Verb about the kids in a kindergarten classroom. When asked if they could sing, [...]