Happy Monday to you all! Hope your day is starting as well as mine, um, well maybe not at 4:30 AM like mine started, but at least a sunny day and a good feeling. A blogger and consumate doodler posted the best version of my Monday morning – so I’ll share it with you here: I’m not sure this house is the right fit… money is a little tight! Doodle by ana traina ~ 2013…
January 27, 2013 Taurus (4/20-5/20) If there has been a power tug-of-war going on in your life, today is a good time to grab the rope harder, lean in, and give it a good hard pull — chances are, everything will come over to your side with a big splash! You have been underestimating your strength, being tolerant of other people’s ideas and allowing them to convince you that they have the other hand. You…
Yesterday was a rough one. I went to pick up Tin at school and heard he had had another emotionally rough day and so when we got out to the playground and his friends were playing keep away from Tin and he started crying, I figured it might be best to just come home and chill out. He said he wanted to watch Cars and though this has never been allowed, I said whatever, let’s…
My assignment from E (therapist) is to answer the question, “What stops you from accepting help?” and my assignment from D (life coach) is to let go of the logistical questions and answer what is home? Tall order from my two mentors. Today at breakfast, Tin had brought all of his cars and trucks and planes – there was Lightning McQueen, Squishy, Dumper, Mater, and the rest and he ate his pasta (that’s what he…
I went to see E the other day as quitting smoking in the midst of all the other chaos in my life was probably not the smartest thing I’ve ever done. Well, the truth is that I started smoking because of the chaos and it truly wasn’t helping so why keep it up. She said I often talk about the fact that watching my mother be so vulnerable to my nutty father is what made…
The black swans that populated City Park were taken away by the Federal Flood and then replaced by kindly zoo keepers from other parts. Only those didn’t last either. Seems a black swan, like a black young man, are hard to keep alive in this city. And yet they are so beautiful to behold. Yesterday, at the sculpture garden in City Park, the groundskeepers had cordoned off a nest where the black swan was keeping…
Ever notice in old science fiction movies how the people are bald? Well, at swimming the other day a woman walked in who could have been my twin – I mean cue ball head and all. I thought now would you look at that. Maybe all those movies from the past were really images of the future as we all develop alopecia from the stress of modern life. There have been so many people I’ve…
I have mentioned before a woman I sat next to at a conference a few years ago in New York – who happened to be the motivational speaker – didn’t know it at the time, but she left my side and went up and delivered a rousing talk about how to think differently about change. The key notes of her talk is that sometimes you need to place more awareness not on the goal, but…
A friend was on her way over to the LaLa right before I left for D.C., she said she had been listening to a woman who ran a marathon and when asked by everyone who she was going to sponsor or run for, she said she put on the back of her jersey, “I am doing this for me.” And so when I was in D.C. lying in bed, I received an email from a…