Today while friends were visiting, thier six year old daughter was playing in my daughter's room. My daughter wanted to set some boundaries so she came down stairs to ask the grown ups for some support. When the girls parents encouraged my daughter to "just tell her no", my daughter flat out said "I hate crushing little girls spirits".
I am commited to figuring out what evernote can do for me.
I need more brain space. I need more space to work. I need more time to think.
Wish me luck!
Every day is a choice to be together, to love each other, to be good to each other, to appreciate each other, to listen to each other, to respect each other, to stay together, and to choose each other.
In the midst of everyday life we can overlook the part we play in our relationships. I am stirred and reminded everytime I witness a wedding, and everytime people I love split apart.
Choose love. And work hard to defend your choice every day.
An ongoing purge I have been working on is to reduce the clutter in my email box and I have been systematically unsubscribing from most mailing lists. As I go thru the tedius steps to politely asked them to remove me from their mailing lists, I feel a pang of hesitation. I am very clear that I need to reduce the amount of unnecessary emails that fill my inbox - but we all have an innate need not to hurt anyone's feelings. unsubscirbe...it's not personal. it is practical.
Our house and our lives are at this interesting intersection of in be tween. Our daughter is eleven , and we have lived in our house for twelve years. We are both in our tweens.
There are many things in our house that we have, that we have outgrown. Our daughter is ditching all her childhood things, and transforming her room into a shrine of who she is today. There is an accumilation of memories and trinkets that have to be sorted and then saved or discarded. There are kitchen gadgets that we do not use and therefore, we do not need. There are clothes that do not fit.
I have spent the last 36 hours purging stuff from our house. Books, clothes, linens, gadgets, electronics, appliances, and furniture. I have filled 22 large garbage bags of stuff to donate, distribute, give away, or throw away. Every drawer, room, closet, space has been reduced. It is a great way to start the new year.
Onward...........
As i pack up the warehouse near downtown Los Angeles where i have run my business for the past 5 years, I am feeling a little melancholy and so excited at the same time. Consolidating and expanding. Moving to a space closer to the art studios in Hollywood - which will make my life more efficient and also expanding the business in new ways.
I text my husband today saying "loving is daunting but kind of nice too"....then realized I meant to say "moving is daunting but kind of nice too."
He reponded " I think it is also true of loving". Well said. To new beginnings, a fresh start, shedding the old, and embarking on something new.
My daughter said to me yesterday that the one person that EVERYONE loves is Eddie Murphy. She only knows him from his current work such as Daddy Day Care and it made me realize how genius Eddie Murphy has been in his career. I remember his comedy being racy and full of bad language when I was young, I remember singing along to "Party all the time" a great pop song in the 80's, and now, my daughter belives he is the one person in the world that EVERYONE loves. Nice work Eddie Murphy - way to evolve and survive and thrive. We can all learn something from his example!
Every day I drop my daughter off at school and go hike the stairs and trails in the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook.
The view from the top is incredible.
It is an efficient way to get my cardio and constant exercize. I do it every day- rain or shine - and if I have time, I will go up and down a couple of times.
It is such a practical way for me to start my day!
Bonus - Free parking and a drinking fountain and bathroom at the top of the hill!
