New Year’s Ritual

A few years ago, I discovered Christine Hassler‘s book Twenty Something, Twenty Everything and since then I’ve been on her mailing list. On New Year’s Eve, I received an email outlining her New Year’s Ritual. I love it so much, I wanted to share it. I think it’s a great way to start a new year. This New Year’s ritual that I’m sharing with you will support you in letting go of the past and clarifying…

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Worlds Collide

My mountain girl Michelle and I met in university in a horrendous statistics class. The ultimate post college question  – “What Should I Do With My Life?” and a book of the same name by Po Bronson was the topic of many of our conversations. One thing became clear to both of us in the years that followed graduation: WHERE we were in the world was important to us. The rest we’d figure out when…

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Back to the Wild: The Spirit of Christopher McCandless Lives On

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ~ Henry David Thoreau At sixteen years old, I checked out  Thoreau’s book Walden at the library which, looking back seems like oddly heavy material for a teenage girl. I’m positive I did not read the entire…

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