Feb 18, 2011 | Beauty + Joy
I posted some thoughts a few weeks ago about my frustration at not being a visual artist. I know there is one inside of me somewhere, I just can't seem to access her. However, I am delighted by color and texture and design. I love photography. I want to have more...Feb 14, 2011 | Beauty + Joy, Celebrating in the Dark
We just finished Happy Hour on the Simply Celebrate Facebook Page. There was a great discussion about Valentine's Day and how it can sometimes feel like we are being told how and when to celebrate the people in our lives. The commercialism can set up expectations...Jan 24, 2011 | Beauty + Joy
I've had this "yicky" feeling ever since I posted the last blog entry. It didn't have anything to do with what I said, but rather, with how it looked. I posted a list that I had made in a class called "Mondo Beyondo." And wow, every time I...Jan 19, 2011 | Beauty + Joy
I'm taking this fabulous online class called Mondo Beyondo, which I'll tell you more about as it goes on. (It just started). Today's assignment was to set a timer for five minutes and in that time create a list of no-fail pick-me-ups. Hopefully the...Jan 11, 2011 | Beauty + Joy
I attended a three-day seminar this past weekend, with the sessions starting at 8-or-9 am and going until 11pm at night, with just two hour-long breaks for meals and a few ten-minute breaks for snacks or whatnot. It was very intensive. I wasn't sleeping a lot...Jan 5, 2011 | Beauty + Joy
This morning while I was meditating, the lyrics to the Rolling Stones song, You Can't Always Get What You Want, popped into my mind out of nowhere. Just these two lines zipped through: "You can't always get what you want; you get what you need." It...