
When you leave dress shopping to the last minute.

When you leave dress shopping to the last minute.
Despite the utter lack of personal responsibility for one’s actions & feelings in its refrain of “Look what you made me do” …I love this song so hard.

Hold your own peace in turbulence.
Do intentional work, and never think that your contribution is not enough.
Trust that your light & love are doing a huge amount of work.
Do what you can, when you can.
Minimize your exposure to stuff.
Rest when you need to.
Go on now. Change someone’s life.
Yaaaaaasssss…! Do it badly if it means doing it *at all*. (Don’t miss all the solid strategies for getting stuff done that she mentions in the song, either!)
My goal in the #denofpositivity has never been to *stay* positive, or to *not* have uncomfortable feelings; I learn again & again that light & sight are on the other side of the feels. The real goal here is to *remember* positivity; to remind myself that positivity is a powerful reward of mindfulness & self-exploration. The more I do that deep, hard work in the mirror, the more positivity I feel.
Shine on, Mary Oliver.



“HOW HARD DID AGING HIT YOU” CHALLENGE: October 2008 & November 2018. See…? No wrinkles.
P.S… Besides kicking off my own leg last fall, aging is pretty awesome. Love becoming a wise old owl.
Sing directly into the mirror. Then make this week so great it makes last week jealous.
“No one is going to love you
exactly like you imagine.
No one is ever going to read
your mind and take every star
from the sky at the perfect
time and hand it to you.
No one is going to show up
at your door on a horse,
with a shoe you lost.
Do you understand?
That's why you have to love
yourself enough, so that
any other love just adds
more candles to the cake
you've already iced.”
- Stephanie Bennet-Henry