Aug 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
"Make someone great." That line/philosophy was passed onto me this week in my mastermind coaching call. I can't stop thinking about it. It is so simple, yet so absolutely amazing as a life practice. A compliment. An offer of help. A surprise...Aug 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
I've been lying low the past number of weeks. The combination of a life-changing Zen retreat and the death of my grandmother have left me rather speechless. Extraordinarily quiet. Listening. When I returned a few days ago — from the trip back East for the...Jul 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...