handwritten on July 10, 2019
Figuratively, we "pass the dough" everyday of our lives. Dough not being money but stories and experience, memories and ideas. Our parents, through the years, give slices of their pies to us in the hopes that we will take the recipe and leave the old but add new ideas and seasonings and love to a different generation of dough-one that we will pass on to our own children.
We all have family recipes that are tangible, meaningful. Some we have heard about and tried and other times we have simply kept the memory pie to share without every having recreated our own. And sometimes, that is okay too.
My parents have always talked about their dating days, and the one story that always arises is...
handwritten on July 9, 2019
Probably one of the most beautiful things on earth is watching small preschool friends explore their universe. The way they see their world and interpret emotions and their creativity are really so far advanced-if we are too busy we might miss the fact that we may be the wisest beings when we are that small. Small in size but strength in mind.
It was about 90 degrees out today, and I was walking around taking pictures. I came upon the pre-K friends who were just making their way out into the foyer to collect some very large foam blocks to bring outside and make a spaceship. If you did not know what they were doing, you would have never guess they were trying to make a spaceship. But it...
handwritten on July 8, 2019
I think it's important that we dare to try something new. To try something uncomfortable. To challenge ourselves to live outside our comfort zones. Today was our first day of Summer Learning Academy. Certainly a new role for me, a bit scary and did create a bit of anxiety leading up to the first day. But this is how we learn as humans- to create circumstances for ouselves that allow us to grow and challenge existing perspectives and help us to expand ourselves in a different way or in a new directions.
And despite the first day having a few hiccups, what I realized is most important about life events and leadership is this idea that stars will always fall. Or, certain stars that have...
handwritten on July 7, 2019
Gosh for those of you who don't play, it doesn't matter. Today was a day of brilliance. A day of equality. A day that reminds us all that the best games won are together and never apart. That game of soccer is just pure brilliance. For someone who played and loved the game throughout childhood and middle school, I can honestly say there is no other game that demands team, demands brilliance, demands cooperation, demands love, demands respect more than the game of soccer.
I have never felt more proud of our American team than how I felt this morning. And it didn't even have to do with the winning. It had to do with their celebration of eachother. It was obviously they clearly lifted each...
handwritten on July 5, 2019
I think the reason why progress is not made more within ourselves and in the world is perhaps because we shy away from those who know their voice. Think about the people you have never met but the ones you have heard before that may seem too loud. Like you are walking down the street in your neigborhood and you hear someone laugh too loudly. Like that laugh cuts through a crowd. Notice though that usually you feel self-conscious for them. They remain perfectly secure. Why? It makes us uncomfortable. But loudness is not just volume, I think it's the sense of certainty in which we hear or feel a message or a problem or a perspective. And the more certain a message is, the more pure the...
