Category: Passion

The One Thing – Book Review

It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? – Henry David Thoreau Among the things I’ve done recently to nurture my creativity is to finish the book, “The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results” by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan.  I’ve been…

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What Inspires Me

The question I’ve been mulling over this week is what inspires me? This came from this week’s management tip on lynda.com by Todd Dewett called, “Inspiration Is A Choice” in which he stated that inspiration is not a random occurrence, but is a choice. According to the dictionary, to inspire is: to exert an animating, enlivening,…

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Keeping New In the New Year

The six word Friday several weeks ago used the word “new”.  I nibbled away at for a while, as one of the things that bugged me the most when I came back to work on January 2 was how quickly the word “new” was left behind from the New Year.  So my six words for “new”…

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Bring It On!

Thank you everyone for the kind comments from my post the other day.  I’m still digesting your advice and support.  Most likely I will post about it next week. This week’s theme for Six Word Friday is “bring”.  Oh yes, one of my favorite statements, but with a caveat: Bring it on – use with…

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Sometimes The Grass Is Greener

Today’s theme for Six Word Friday is “over” and what popped into my head was: Sometimes grass IS greener over there. Now I’m not saying that I want to spend my time envying what others have or being ungrateful for what I have myself.  That is a surefire way to make myself miserable and reaching…

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Elvis and Passion

For New Year’s Eve, my favorite boy toy and I went to the Virginia Museum of Fine Art.  While we aren’t big fans of Elvis Presley, we went to the exhibit since we were already there.  I was glad we did. The photographer, Alfred Wertheimer, had unlimited access to Elvis.  While some pictures were posed, most…

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