Posts Tagged: postaday

30 Days of 30. Day 8: In which I practice flexibility

June 09, 2013

I’m hyper-flexible. When I told one of my clients this, she responded, “Of course you are, Monica. You’re always willing to go with last-minute changes and work around stuff that comes up for me. Mommy, isn’t Monica hyper-flexible?” This cracked me up because what I actually meant was that my joints are hyper-mobile and so I can bend and stretch in ways most people can’t. However in life, when it comes to plans where I may be looking forward to …

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30 Days of 30. Day 7: Celebration, Smorgasboard-style.

June 08, 2013

Yesterday I did four things to celebrate my 30 Days of 30. I made sure to get lots of pictures, so I’ll let that be the focus. Writing: Every morning (mostly) I drink coffee and I sit for a while with what I’m going to post that day. Commitment to the 30 days of 30 posting provides me with a structure to write something additional to the varied writing I do throughout the day. As a writer, the discipline of …

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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 …

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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 …

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30 Days of 30. Day 3. (part two)

June 04, 2013

If you read part one , you’ll already know that I’m on vignettes of highlight moments. 3. When I returned to the main room with the flautists, I got the entire room to pay attention to me (voluntarily) by saying: “If you can hear my voice, touch your head. If you can hear my voice, touch your ear. If you can hear my voice…” and modeling it for them. Eventually, all the kids joined in and were quiet enough that neither …

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