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Listening to my body—following my heart

Quote of the day:  “Pain is like a life coach in your body. It’s what made me a life coach because I started paying a lot of attention to what made me hurt and what didn’t. It turned out my body was trying to steer me away from a life that was absolutely wrong for me and into a life that was absolutely wonderful.” —Martha Beck If you’ve been reading my blog, you may know that I’ve struggled with fibromyalgia-like issues for many years. When I was working as a software engineer, it seemed that no matter what I did, my Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Letting go of regrets for broken things, broken dreams

Quote of the day: “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” —Leonard Cohen For the past two days I’ve been unpacking beautiful glass things that belonged to my mother-in-law. Since my husband was the sole remaining son, we inherited all of her things when she died, including a LOT of beautiful glasses, cups, stemware, you name it. We packed a lot of her special things up and left them in the garage, thinking that we could do something with them the next summer. Many summers later, I decided it was time to sort through things, give them Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Friday Bliss and Gratitude List

Quote of the day: ““Now may every living thing, young or old, weak or strong, living near or far, known or unknown, living or departed or yet unborn, may every living thing be full of bliss.” ― Anonymous, The Dhammapada It’s Friday so it must be Bliss List day. Counting my blessings is so much fun. Here’s to Friday and Liv Lane’s Little Bliss List. This is my list for the week: I’m grateful for GREEN and GARDENS. The trees and grass have been loving all of the rain we’ve been getting. On bright cloudy days I swear the green Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Listening to fear

Quote of the day:  “Fear will tell you to contract. Open. Fear will tell you to plow ahead. Pull back and wait. Fear will tell you to not rock the boat. Dive in.”                                   —Danielle LaPorte, The Fire Starter Sessions Every time I reach a point of knowing that following my heart and creating a business I love is totally right for me, little events remind me that fear is a wily rascal that can surprise me still. Little by little, I’m building some momentum in Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

A little Sunday afternoon adventure

Quote of the day: “I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.” —Bob Black Sunday was cloudy and threatening rain most of the day. A friend and I decided to go to a movie in the afternoon, but discovered no parking places available anywhere near the theater, Instead of seeing the movie we decided to drive around Lake Harriet. We came upon the Linden Hills Trolley Car and decided to stop and take a ride. Minneapolis-Saint Paul once had a thriving trolley system. You could ride the trolley all the way to Stillwater in the east Read more…

By Marilyn, ago