December 2011
4 posts
“Ask most people what they want out of life and the answer is simple – to be...”
Two years ago, I was afraid of wanting anything. I figured wanting would lead to trying and trying would lead to failure. But now I find I can’t stop wanting. I want to fly somewhere on first class. I want to travel to Europe on a business trip. I want to get invited to the White House. I want to learn about the world. I want to surprise myself. I want to be important. I want to be the best person...
November 2011
4 posts
When you become truly grateful for things that aren’t really things, you begin to realize how unimportant stuff really is. Real “my cup runneth over” moments don’t come from a store, or your closet. They come from experiencing joy, love and gratitude.
I’m grateful for you, beautiful you. Your unique talents will brighten and change the world if you let them. Offer and share them. You deserve it....
Here’s to the big things we often take for granted. Here’s to a refrigerator full of food. Here’s to the electricity that runs that refrigerator. Here’s to clean water being a flick of the faucet away. Here’s to going to bed tonight with a roof over my head (and without the fear of a bomb crashing through it). Here’s to the knowledge that when I dial 911 an ambulance will come get me, not a...
October 2011
7 posts
At first, you weren’t sure you had it in you. Fear, doubt, naysayers, and what-ifs threatened to hold you back. You left anyway, determined to see it out.
The people around you talked about consequences and the risk of uncertainty. Wouldn’t it be safer not to go? Wouldn’t you be better off homebound, shut off from the world in the comfortable setting you knew so well?
You smiled and went...
I’m thinking of those people in my life. The sweetest of the sweets who have watered me with their spoken faith. The steadfast, the patient, the idealists who have waited for me without pacing, happily being with the rhythm of growth. The ones who left long voice-mails of buoyant belief. The ones who are so satisfied in their own core that they easily step outside of themselves and into my...
Keep going, traveler. All good things eventually come to an end, but not yet. You have miles to go before you sleep, and you’ll be glad you made the trip.
“I think my superpower is adaptability. I love change, and adjusting to new circumstances on the fly. I think that’s why I enjoy travel (and moving) so much! I’ve always wanted to be like a Bond girl – not the ditzy ones, but the nuclear-physicist-by-day, karate-black-belt-by-night ones. They always adapt to any circumstance – outrunning assassins on skis, trekking across a desert, or scuba...
September 2011
7 posts
Live the life you wish to, date the man you wish to date, and stop looking to your family for affirmation for the choices that you make. Life is full of risks. You can’t live your life in fear of how people will judge you for following your dreams.
3 tags
You are more than a series of experiences. You are the light that surrounds them.
And if you’re too busy to stop and actually look at what it’s all adding up to, then that’s what you should be busy with.
July 2011
1 post
This sounds sad, but it isn’t. The fact is that most people aren’t your people. They’re just bodies passing in space and time. They might have something to teach you in the moment, but after that moment they don’t need your help anymore. So let them go.
May 2011
9 posts
“You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay...”
– John Bunyan
I learn the most by spending time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.
Just a Thought...
As President Obama explained in his address last night, Osama Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader but rather someone who killed Muslims all over the world. The 9/11 attacks took the lives of citizens from more than 90 countries.
The best thing we can do to preserve “our” way of life—and by that I mean all of us who love freedom, whichever passport we hold—is to be a force for good in the world. I...
April 2011
10 posts
The gate was covered with leaves. I ran my hand over the wood and opened it slowly.
Everything came into focus. Sunlight reflected on the water, a boat moved across the horizon.
The air felt warm and balmy, The colors, the scents, the sounds took my breath away—
they were all so new, so beautiful.
It was easy for me to imagine how we would meet, what we would say, how it would feel....
Questo è l'Avventura
She sees every day as an opportunity to discover, to dream, to do.
She finds beauty in the unexpected.
Her elegance is always effortless.
For her, life is the greatest adventure.
Give Freely
Think back to a few months ago.
Mistletoe was everywhere, and all you wanted to do was love people and feed the world.
The holiday season inspires us to be more giving and loving. Some of us even promise ourselves to be more like our holiday-selves all year long.
And then, sometime shortly after our New Year’s resolutions are forgotten, our volunteer work, and charitable contributions are...
“A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
You’ll never be able to control what your children are exposed to, so teach them right from wrong. Censorship isn’t it.
If you don’t believe you have the right to be here, there will never be enough space for your true self to show up. If you think you need to earn your actual desires, you’re putting miles, years, between you and fulfillment. So many of us don’t even give ourselves permission to want what we want. This is the great tragedy of a malnourished spirit.
Feed your soul.
Let momentum ignite you.
Once you feel it growing, let momentum fan the fire inside you – a fire that may have been burnt out or smoldering under the surface for a long time. Let yourself feel love and passion towards yourself, your life and everything you do then begin to recover, uncover or discover your true potential. If often leaps out of the flames.
Momentum thrives on you.
It is the...
I do it because I can. I can because I want to. I want to because you said I couldn’t.
March 2011
2 posts
Make your life about embracing the good instead of escaping the bad.
Right now, I can only think of one thing: summer. Sunny, hot, stick-to-the-seat-of-your-car summer. Most people hate really hot summers, but I relish them. I can’t wait for the days when a sundress and flip flops are the only sensible options and purchases like striped deck chairs are on my to-do list.
February 2011
5 posts
It’s funny what travel can do to a person. It’s not that you change exactly, it’s more that you adapt in a million little ways.
We’re all developing and slowly evolving constantly, and these threads of travel-related changes just work their way into that ever-fluctuating structure, barely-noticeable except by those who only see you periodically and weren’t there to ease into the changes.
I’m...
If you do now what other people won’t do, you’ll be able to do (for the rest of your life) what other people can’t do.
“I implore you to see exercise (and life!) not as goals to accomplish, but...”
– Matt Frazier
January 2011
1 post
The moment you stop caring about what you are doing with your life, why you are here in the first place, and are simply going through the motions, that is when your life can be most dangerous.
It’s dangerous to be ignorant of your own shortcomings as well as your own strengths. It’s dangerous to just adopt a lifestyle because you see everyone else doing it too. It’s dangerous when you do it for...