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With a little help from my friends…in Manitoba
I’ve just returned home from a seriously magical 24 hour trip to Winnipeg and neighboring towns. The snafu: Upon my arrival to Winnipeg Airport at midnight last night, I discovered I didn’t have my driver’s license and couldn’t pick up my rental car. I had to get to my hotel, sleep, be ready for, and…
Read MoreA Thread of Compassion
I am watching a web of very strong reactions be spun from beliefs colored in fear, justice, love, resignation, pacifism, anger, hate, division, and unity with the announcement of Bin Laden’s death on Sunday. On the news, I see celebrations in the streets, anti-this-and-that propaganda, and cycles of images of dead people. Facebook and social…
Read MoreDon’t Settle
Coming off two days of speaking to 5000 middle and high school students about owning their worth and a month that included a magical trip overseas to make a difference with teens in the Marianas Islands, becoming an entrepreneur, and launching my first programs, all I can think is: Don’t settle. For so long, I…
Read MoreI Choose Love in Schools Overseas
I’ve just returned from a trip half way around the world where I spoke with 3000 elementary through high school students on making a difference and choosing love. Watch this video for an account of this incredible journey. For the millions of people all over the world who suffer in silence everyday from their perceived…
Read MoreShe Speaks In Whispers No More
I cannot help but think that the circumstances of the journey in my own life, the current experience of the girls here in the CNMI (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands), and this churning of Mother Earth are all expressions of the same issue. We have become so disassociated from our connection with nature, with…
Read MoreChoosing Love as a Career
Two years ago, I was likely lying on the floor of the back living room at 653 Loring talking to my best friend and roommate, Tyler, about how much I was dreading going to work the next day. We must have had this same conversation upwards of 100 times. Everyday, he would tell me the…
Read MoreGood Luck With That
My last stop today was to the studio where I will be holding a running a workshop starting later this month. Holding a bag containing the fliers I wanted to leave for the studio owner, I walked up to the location, hoping there was someone there after business hours. An artist wearing a kind grin…
Read MoreThe Sunflower’s Stalk
In the words of a sister: You are a sunflower – radiant and beautiful. I remember you describing yourself as a sunflower in one of our classes and how you don’t judge the sunflower when its blossom turns down at night, so why would you judge yourself when you go through the dark times? But…
Read MoreRemembering Jackfruit
Two years ago today, I was in Kerala, India with my yoga teacher, Shiva Rea. I cannot believe how fast time has past! I share with you a passage from what I wrote then, in a note I called, “A Little Lesson from my Crush, Jackfruit”: Shiva mentioned something today that stuck with me. She…
Read MoreThe Purpose Puzzle
“There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle,” Deepak Chopra Look around when on a hike, at the beach, or taking in a sunset – everything in nature has a perfect purpose. …
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