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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Gathering Leaves – a Pocket Poem by Robert Frost
Great poets have the ability to examine the mundane and the humble and transform it into poignancy. They take the time to unearth the meaning, the purpose, the treasure located in daily tasks. Here’s what happens when Robert Frost rakes leaves. I’m about to start raking this week. If you are too, perhaps you can [...]
Posted in Purpose Tagged Gathering Leaves, Pocket Poem, Purpose, raking leaves, Robert Frost Comments closed
The beauty in limits
“I am freest to create beauty when I know my limitations” - composer Jean Pierre Ramon This fall I’ve been exploring the idea of limits and my relation to them. The idea of limits themselves can be really challenging for me – I’m more interested in freedom. But I’m seeing that true freedom comes from [...]
Posted in Music, Persistence Tagged composer Jean Pierre Ramon, I am freest to create beauty when I know my limitations, leaf peepers, western Massachusetts Comments closed
I Was Born to Play This Song
Saturday morning on the drive to the Greenfield Farmer’s Market to play music we were listening to one of the songs we were going to play – ‘Til the Rivers All Run Dry by Don Williams. It’s a song I’ve loved since high school when I first heard Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane play it [...]
Posted in Music, Passion Tagged Don Williams, Greenfield Farmer's Market, Passion, Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane, Rough Mix, Til the Rivers All Run Dry Comments closed
WHY do you do what you do?
“Tell me why I don’t like Mondays” – Bob Geldoff and the Boomtown Rats If you are feeling less than happy about doing something that needs to be done today, try this: Ask yourself WHY you’re about to do what you’re going to do. Keep asking it, go down a few levels. Dig as deep [...]
Posted in Purpose Tagged Bob Geldoff, Boomtown Rats, Purpose, Tell me why I don't like Mondays, why do you do what you do, why do you what you do Comments closed
What’s Your Life’s Purpose … Today?
“What’s your life’s purpose?” Does anyone find this question annoying or frustrating? A colleague spent years trying to answer that question. She finally gave up, was happier and oddly enough, found her purpose. Here’s why it’s an annoying question for me – it’s too big. So I’ve added one word – “today”. “Today” is just the [...]
Posted in Purpose Tagged Purpose, Quixote Consulting, Rob Fletcher, what's your life's purpose? Comments closed
Joni Mitchell and the gift of trouble
“Every bit of trouble that I went through I’m grateful for. Bad fortune changed the course of my destiny – I became a musician.” -Joni Mitchell Trouble gave me being a musician too, and then when trouble came in the form of tendonitis I learned to play the harmonica, a deep passion in my life. [...]
Posted in Music, Passion, Persistence Tagged Bad fortune changed the course of my destiny, Every bit of trouble that I went through I’m grateful for, harmonica, I became a musician, Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell quote Comments closed
It’s a beautiful world – A Photo of Purpose 2
A number of you really enjoyed a picture I posted of the Orion Nebula. Thanks for telling me. I’ll add pictures that help with purpose periodically. Here’s one I took last month of a rainbow in Sedona Arizona with the camera on my phone and here are some thoughts to help ground you in purpose. [...]
My Ten Favorite Kids Books – what are yours?
I wrote recently about tracking your passion through what you loved doing as a child. One thing I loved was reading. While hiking in the Rocky Mountains, Laura and I tried to remember our favorite books to read when we were kids. This is what I loved that I can remember between 2nd and 5th [...]
Posted in Passion Tagged Amelia Bedelia, Bevery Cleary, Cricket in Times Square, Encyclopedia Brown, favorite kids books, Hardy Boys, Mad Scientists' Club, Passion, Pippi Longstockings, Stuart Little, The Great Brain Comments closed
Feeling the fall? Here’s a Pocket Poem by Rilke for you