"Celebrate what you want to see more of." – Tom Peters
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” - Rainer Maria Rilke Happy Spring! Except in Minnesota, it's a little bit like we skipped straight to summer. The weather has been beautiful and warm. All my tulips are blooming and afternoons on my patio are glorious. I'm so [...]
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set before [...]
I recently wrote to a friend, “I think I’m having a quarter-life crisis.” But the truth is I think I’ve been having it for the last few years...in spurts. One day, life is good and I’m pretty sure I have it all figured out. The next day I don’t agree with anything from the previous [...]
"Essentially, what I'm talking about, what I'm circling ever nearer and nearer to is agency. Or maybe authority: owning one's life, for better and for worse, saying out loud, 'This is who I am, this is who I'm not, this is what I want, this is what I'm leaving behind.'" -Shauna Niequist, Present Over Perfect I [...]
GLIMPSES OF JOY 