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“Choose to be young at heart; choose to live life filled with laughter and playfulness. Then watch. Watch how your soul smiles.” Dear Universe, Over the weekend, my fiancé and I took a spontaneous trip to New York City. We wanted to see our family because it had been a while and we were missing our niece and nephews like …
“This is your story. Write it the way you imagine it, with the people and things that delight you most. Write it before someone else takes the pen, draws your path for you, and scribbles away your life.” Dear Universe, Giving love to someone is the greatest gift we give in our lives. Love can be comforting, healing, and transformative. …
“If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.” ~Richelle E. Goodrich Dear Universe, Beginnings can be beautiful. They can signal fresh starts, dreams realized or long awaited moments finally coming to fruition. But beginnings can also be bumpy. They can be charged with anxiety, worry, fear and panic. New starts often mean that change …
“Every year is a new beginning, but so is every day. Take a deep breath and begin.” Dear Universe, This week marks the Chinese New Year. I heard that it was the Year of the Monkey (Red Fire Monkey, to be exact) and as I usually do, I wanted to research to see what this could symbolize for 2016. The …
“Patience is not the ability to wait, but how you act while you are waiting.” ~Joyce Meyer Dear Universe, The other day I was cooking risotto for dinner. Risotto is a dish that takes time to make. You have to let it simmer. You have to slowly stir it and walk away and then slowly stir it some more. Mostly …
“May you live all the days of your life.” ~Jonathan Swift Dear Universe, I love being around kids. There’s something about the way they enjoy the little things that reminds me to pay attention to everything. There’s something about the way they live so fully and completely that can be contagious. They are walking bundles of emotion with smiles one …
“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.” ~Haruki Murakami Dear Universe, This past week the Powerball lottery reached an all-time high: $1.5 billion. And all around me, people were in a ticket-buying frenzy. (Full disclosure: I was one of those people.) Some stood in line for hours while others superstitiously hopped from location to location …
“It was amazing how you could get so far from where you’d planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.” ~Sarah Dessen Dear Universe, Nothing makes me happier than starting my day full of energy and taking the time to quietly and mindfully set my intentions. I find the days when I can sit alone—for even …