Posts Tagged: Nature

3 ways to kick Fear to the curb

December 03, 2013

Yesterday, I conquered fear. Given a moment of confrontation, I didn’t allow the story inside my head to take over my day (it was only 7:30 am– it would’ve been a really looonnggg day if I obsessed over the single text message that overwhelmed me with fear). Saturday, I lost out to fear. Instead of dancing with a woman whom I love, I worried about how I’d look. I LOVE to dance; if you ever pass me on the highway, …

30 Days of 30. Day 5: miracles and mailings

June 06, 2013

 “But you accept me as I am with all that is fragile, all that is broken, all that is beautiful, too…Then the extraordinary thing is we can let down barriers, we don’t have to prove, I don’t have to pretend I’m better than you are, I’m allowed to be myself. I’m allowed to be myself because you love me.” Jean Vanier “Any deep and genuine friendship is rooted in a covenant of two persons…To believe in someone is to give that …

30 Days of 30. Day 4.

June 05, 2013

Part of the reason I’m celebrating 30 days of 30 is so that I can acknowledge the small moments and the big moments, the ordinary and the extraordinary; the celebration is designed to blur the boundaries between these distinctions and to raise the question of the necessity of separating the ordinary and the extraordinary. Yesterday brought this to the fore. The main crux of my celebration of 30 days of 30 yesterday was waking up at 7:30 AM to wait …