“Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change.”-Jim Rohn I remember asking a forty-something at a New Year’s party, “What’s your New Year’s resolution?” He just shook his head and said, “I didn’t make one. I just break them anyway. What’s the point?” “Wow,” I thought. “That’s like giving up hope.” I believe in hope… Read more →
“There is a voice that speaks without words. Listen.” – Rumi One day last year, I re-read the Year by the Water manifesto that was downloaded to me while driving along California’s Pacific Coast Highway. It reminded me that my original plan was to not plan every minute of every day. I vowed to do the “opposite of my always”… Read more →
How inspiring it has been to make a pilgrimage to Helen Keller’s brithplace, to sit and write on the very same bench where she sat and wrote, and to put my hand under the very same fountain/water pump where she put her hand and said her first word W.A.T.E.R. The docent, Shirley Hale Harrell, told me a very cool story…. Read more →
“Dreaming costs nothing. Not dreaming costs everything.” – Sam Horn Many people I interviewed during my Year by the Water told me, rather wistfully, that they hoped, planned, dreamed of doing something similar … someday. When I asked why they weren’t doing it now, they gave a lot of reasons including that they felt they were “too old” and had… Read more →
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. You have to trust the dots will somehow connect in your future.” – Steve Jobs Steve Jobs was brilliant. And I disagree with him on this. I think we can connect the dots looking forward and backwards. And we can do more than trust the dots… Read more →
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