handwritten on May 15, 2019
Wanting to indulge in the blue skies and sunny weather a little longer, I decided to take a stroll with my husband down the block to enjoy our first ice cream cone of the Spring Season. Before the window opened to take our order, a chair caught my eye.
This chair was unusual admittingly because it reminded me of all the chairs I had ever sat in instantaneously. It reminded me of that chair I used to sit in at my dad's parents house in Queen's New York with the plastic covering and the fabric hidden from specs of dust and dirt. It reminded me of the older cherry-stained chairs at my parent's house that have collapsed or almost collapsed on a few guests through the years but have witheld...
handwritten on May 14, 2019
I have often been fascinated with this idea of gut feeling versus logical intuition versus listening to your heart, and I have found through my 26 years of experience that all three are truly one in the same. Because you cannot make a decision with just your brain without listening to the gut and the heart. If you do, that decision lacks passion. And whimsy. You cannot just listen to your gut because without your brain and your heart, you are making an impulsive decision that generally acts on selfishness rather than selflessness. And you cannot simply just rely on your heart. Because in my opinion, your heart is a combination of logic and gut feeling to create a whimsical decision that...
handwritten on May 12, 2019
I was drawn to the Google Doodle today created by the Google team of course. I found their animation to be quite enchanting but also such an accurate portrayal of what a mother's love actually entails. There were three versions of the google doodle, but I happened to be drawn to the left arrow. When you clicked on it, the colorful ducks began speeding up behind the mother duck who was leading and they all toppled into eachother when the Mother Duck came to a halt. Then the animation began again and the same thing occurred (this racing to follow the Mother Duck and then a bit of a tiny duck pile-up as they realized they were going too fast.) And I think there were a couple of lessons to be...
handwritten on May 11, 2019
The day today was absolutely perfect. So perfect that those blue skies held an extra whimsy in them today. Soccer practice was brilliant and full of scrimmages and piggy back rides. One of the kiddos on my back explained with triumph, "You feel like a new person when you are taller." The world requires you to have a new heightened perspective every day. Like you are on a piggy back ride of a lifetime.
In fact...everyone felt taller today. Taller becuase of the sun. Taller because that sun makes you believe. Taller because sometimes even when the colors around you are enhanced, you feel equally as enhanced like that green grass and blue skies are growing right inside your heart.
As I came...
handwritten on May 10, 2019
I think for those who truly spend their time multiplying love and putting the shoes of another before their own, have a difficult time explaining just exactly what they do. For me, I realized at the end of today, that if someone were to come in and ask me what I did today, I would truly be unable to tell them. What did I do? I wouldn't know where to begin. I came in and ran to the copier and the copier had "low black toner." So I ran up to the computer lab and that copier was out of paper. I ran down to the office and grabbed a stack of white paper to be inserted in the upstairs printer. I printed and then decided to lay out all the Mother's Day projects on the ground so that when the kids...
