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Learn To Be Quiet (Franz Kafka) You need not do anything. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, just wait. You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still and solitary. And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked. It...Jun 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
It breaks my heart wide open when I hear people at funerals wishing they’d expressed their appreciation while the person they loved was still alive. Or folks at the end of their lives feeling like they missed the color and magic in the midst of to-do’s and...Jun 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
SIMPLY CELEBRATE NEWSLETTER: MAY/JUNE 2011 Twenty years ago, I had just broken up with my boyfriend after a recent move to San Francisco. I was broken hearted and grappling with a depression that had been nipping at my heels for years. I couldn’t kick it off this...May 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
So yesterday I was all happy after my morning dance class. Feeling chipper and generous, I stopped a stranger from the class to tell her that I loved her haircut. She looked great — and I wanted to tell her so. During the course of our short conversation, she...May 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
The theme of Monday's Happy Hour on the Simply Celebrate facebook page, was "What questions do we ask ourselves?" Tricia started off the conversation by saying, "It was brought to my attention recently that the intent and quality of the question...Apr 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
SIMPLY CELEBRATE NEWSLETTER APRIL 2011 This morning I attended a dance class in the Mission. At one point during the class, Michael Franti’s, “Say Hey (I Love You)” was playing and we were shimmying all over the place. The woman in front of me was...