Jumping Fish 🎣

Have you ever seen a fish jumping out of the water for no apparent reason? I always get so excited, because I see it as such good luck 🍀.

I know I’ll only see jumping fish when I stop and pause. Not if I’m hurrying, walking or running by.

Being lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a fish jumping means I had a moment to pause and breathe. Which in and of itself [a deep breath] is a gift. 🎁

The crazy part is that I never even try to photograph jumping fish. I just know it’s a message for just me. A simple message to make me smile, and let me know that everything is going to be ok.

This evening I had a wonderful walk, and I stopped at my special rock, took a few moments for myself, and felt lighter, leaving my troubles behind.

Thanks universe – these troubles are yours now. I can let go, just like the autumn leaves, and it’s beautiful. 🍂🍁

I’ve had friends that told me yellow cars were their messengers …. What is your secret universe message? I’d love to hear it!

7 Rules To Live By*

*inspired by our awesome Story Exploratory workshop this month!

If you look for the good in people, expecting to find it, you will. 🕊️
If you can’t find a friend, be one. Turn loneliness into intentional solitude. Solitude is self-care. ☀️
Don’t break promises you make to yourself. Be still and know. Go outside. Take a deep breath.🧘‍♀️ someday is not a day of the week.
Seek a daily dose of novelty. Notice don’t numb. Find awe and wonder in the everyday. Read new books, listen to new podcasts and ideas. 📚 Be a detective 🕵️‍♀️ of the magic in your own soul.
Believe in the power of the incremental. Each action is a vote for the person you want to become. Little habits make big changes. 💪 if you don’t want to slip, don’t go where it’s slippery 🍫 🍻 I choose which thoughts I repeat, I am that kind of powerful.
Attention is the currency of love. Where your attention goes, energy flows. Give it fully to those you truly love. ❤️
Strive to be significant, not successful. ✍️ go where you are valued, not needed. money is just a tool, not the goal. 💵 dream so big that if it comes true it changes the world, and not just you.

my writing supplies: beauty 🌻 warmth ☕️ and a candle 🕯️ to signify a safe creative space

Jetta

175,030 miles and 14+ years of memories! Bought it new (10 miles) for $22,942 Aug 16, 2010. Sold for $500 Sept 19, 2024.

Both kids learned how to drive on this Jetta, we drove to sleep in a tree house for Finn’s 10th birthday, celebrated Betty White, moved into college, watched movies at the drive-in, took Lennon to the dog park, taillight busted by a home run bounce at Ivanhoe, and of course hundreds of commutes to internships, Lake Zurich MSS, Abbott Park, Conway Park and Des Plaines. PLUS countless safe passages under the covered bridge! Ha!

My Wishes for You

Be Kind. Be Brave. Be Curious.

The point of this human experience, I believe, is to be a detective of the magic in your own soul. So honor there and try something new every day, push yourself, challenge yourself, grow, learn, connect, love, make mistakes…

I hope you are always a deep and wild thinker, and continue to seek the truth for yourself.

Are full of an infinite abundance of inner peace.

Find and build connections. Seek synchronicity.

Where your attention goes, energy flows.

Go where you are valued, not needed.

Enjoy a daily dose of novelty.

Don’t miss the world being available to you

Live in a state of Awe and Perpetual Wonder

Underreact to stress, everything you need is already inside you!

Comprehend that there is not much you can do about the length of your life, focus on the width, live deep and wide!

if you don’t want to slip, don’t go where it’s slippery.

Love, Dreams, Emotions are proof we are more than just our bodies.

the family you create is more important than the family you come from

Insight alone into the problem isn’t sufficient as a solution.

Rules for Life:consistently good is better than intermittently excellent

If you need a laugh watch Panda 🐼 videos on why they aren’t extinct 🤣

If you want to cry happy tears watch Military surprise reunions ❤️‍🩹

Focus on important things; not urgent ‼️

if our dreams get broken along the way, we have to make new ones from the pieces – Erin Quinn

Every word they said whispers through the air forever. Every molecule which for a while made up your sister (mom, friend), carries on in the air, or fits into a plant or bird. Every touch on your skin lives on in the neurons of your brain. Most of the atoms which make us up were born in a star. That light exists in us all. ⭐️Your love crosses dimensions and never ends. ❤️ death ends a life, not a relationship 💔💐