Two quotes from Elizabeth Gilbert to make your Monday morning a little happier.
Category: HAPPINESS
The Hope that Only You Know
What lies inside that dead-looking twig might just surprise us all.
Saturday Night Playlist
A playlist for your Saturday night
♥ Your Life: Take a Personality Test
If you haven't lost at least one afternoon of your life to the fascinating study of temperament types, I highly recommend it.
Inspired: Ira Glass on Persevering
Ira Glass on creative people and why they have such a hard time persevering in their work
Adventure + Kids?
Friends with kids are having major adventures around the world. But what about all the benefits to stability?
Following Your Passion
What is your passion? Is that an easy question for you to answer? Do you feel that everyone has a passion? What does it mean if you don't know what yours is? Or do you have the opposite problem—do you feel like you have so many pursuits that you feel lost? Austin blogger Jenni from… Continue reading Following Your Passion
Inspired: Alice Walker’s Forgiveness
I was blown away by Alice Walker's simple words of forgiveness, and I wanted to share them here.
Inspired: Tom Petty & His Audience
The experience felt at a concert is a unique and rare joy.
Out with the Old, In with the Fried Eggs
An essay I wrote three years ago about how my search for my fixed, true identity may be an exercise in futility.
The Trouble(s) with Being Authentic
I feel a strong pull to be authentic to my true self, but I often end up going along with the crowd. It seems as though I'm caught between pain from being inauthentic, or pain from being different. But are these really my only two options?
Two Christmas Stories: A Guest Post
I'm honored to have my dad, John Daniewicz, as a guest blogger on this special Christmas post. Two stories dominate our collective psyche during this time of year. What do they have to teach us? As we sit by a warming fire this winter solstice, with Christmas fast approaching, what are we celebrating? It is… Continue reading Two Christmas Stories: A Guest Post
Speed Matters
It is so easy to lose sight of the reality that our schedules are our own doing, that we control how we spend our days. The speed at which we navigate our life deeply affects what we see and how we experience it.
An Old Prayer, New Again
Neil Douglas-Klotz translates Jesus's words in "The Lord's Prayer" directly from the original Aramaic. The result is moving, inspiring, even perhaps a little shocking.
A Season of Doing Without
I haven't written a blog post in an eternity. Luckily this is due to nothing more calamitous than it being winter, when the trees find themselves with no leaves and I apparently find myself with no words. But a canopy of yellow-green now lines the street to my daughter's school, so I too will start… Continue reading A Season of Doing Without
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