Take a Moment of Reflection – Saying Yes
About a year ago, I decided to try to live my life similar to the way improv actors practice their art. In improv, this means saying “yes and” - never disagreeing with your fellow actor and instead accepting their ideas and adding to them. My approach is a little...
Take a Moment of Reflection: Put on Bright Clothes in the New Year!
Hoarding your joys and despairs As if they were clothes You brought but never wore Look at this bright shirt: A possibility you glimpsed But feared to seize. The beloved is waiting. You have a date. Put on that shirt before it fades.” -Gregory Orr, from How Beautiful...
Take a Moment of Reflection: Believe in a Love Being Stored up for You
“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” - Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young...
Take a Moment of Reflection: To Tell the Truth
When I was much younger, there was a TV show called, To Tell the Truth. In it, three people would come on the show and present themselves to a celebrity panel. One of the three people had a unique story to tell – they had an unusual occupation or experience – while...
Take a Moment of Reflection: Burning the Old Year
Burning the Old Year “So much of any year is flammable, lists of vegetables, partial poems. Orange swirling flame of days, so little is a stone. ”¦ Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves, only the things I didn‘t do crackle after the blazing dies.” -Naomi Shihab...
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