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“In case you ever foolishly forget, I am never not thinking of you.” ~Virginia Woolf Dear Universe, Last month I lost one of the most important people in my life. His death was sudden, and therefore came as a shock. Even now, weeks later, the thought of him and knowing he’s gone, utterly devastates me. He was my cousin. But …
“Fireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, color and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had suspense, surprise, and a faint hint of danger; above all, they had the supreme quality of transience, which puts the keenest edge on beauty and …
“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” ~Walt Whitman Dear Universe, Lately, a lesson keeps coming to me. It’s a lesson about how, whether we realize it or not, the answers are always within us. Like most lessons, this one has come up in a variety of ways—some of which are subtle, while others are more obvious. Most recently, I experienced …
“Our eyes met and our souls caught on fire.” ~Nikki Rowe Dear Universe, This past weekend I had my first in person event in over a year! I had some trepidation leading up to it. I wondered if I would still have the same zest I always had for events. I wondered if I would be excited to be there …
“There’s a battle ahead Many battles are lost But you’ll never see the end of the road While you’re traveling with me Hey now, hey now Don’t dream it’s over Hey now, hey now When the world comes in They come, they come To build a wall between us We know they won’t win…” ~Crowded House Dear Universe, The …
“Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but gets you nowhere.” ~Erma Bombeck Dear Universe, A long-time favorite quote came to mind the other day: “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” ~Zora Neale Hurston I first came across it years ago, when my life seemed at a standstill after a particularly tumultuous …
“That is the voice of your consciousness. It’s the voice that’s speaking the truth you may not want to hear, and it never turns off. It’s the part that keeps us moving, that pushes us.” ~Carolyn Myss Dear Universe, A year ago today I was on my way to New Jersey for the most epic weekend at Tara Romano’s Your …
“The right timing is not always our timing.” ~Joyce Meyer Dear Universe, Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about timing. How things line up in our lives, the people we meet, the opportunities that come our way, are in large part due to us “being in the right place at the right time.” That’s what we say, right? And then …