Happy Valentine’s Day! Today I choose to celebrate all the beautiful love in my life. I choose to celebrate MY heart – my gigantic, bold, bleeding, happy, sad, caring, courageous, adventurous, messy, passionate, ALIVE heart. I choose to let it fill me up and make me smile. I choose to make myself my favorite pancakes for breakfast. I choose to buy myself some pretty fresh flowers. I choose to run in the park. I choose to…
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Do you ever have those days where you focus entirely too much on what’s missing in your life? I think we all do. I am 100% guilty as charged more than ever lately. Last night I was out running, most likely pondering something that’s missing, and then rapper T.I said these words into my earbuds: “Stop Looking At What You Ain’t Got And Start Being Thankful For What You Do Got.” (So Live Your Life…
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I love Hawaii. And I love Christmas. But Christmas IN Hawaii is, well, weird. Ok, maybe not weird, but it’s definitely different when you grew up somewhere like, oh let’s say CANADA. I can never seem to get that feeling here. You know – that warm fuzzy holiday feeling that suddenly creeps up on you and you can’t help but bask in all of its giddiness. I think the feeling only comes when the temperature drops below…
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Sage: [seyj] noun, adjective, sag·er,sag·est. Noun 1. a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom. This morning I was the first to arrive for yoga class, so I found a seat on a bench outside the studio. A few minutes later, a woman arrives, with a child under one arm, food in her other hand. “Morning,” she smiles at me, putting the child down. “Sage,” she says to him, “Do you want some breakfast? Here – mmm – let’s have some of this.” She feeds him…
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Sometimes life smacks you upside the head. Literally. I awoke this morning and pulled back the shade, breathing in the scent of another sweet Hawaiian day. I am trying to incorporate more yoga and meditation rituals into my daily life, so I ignored my laptop and phone and turned on a yoga DVD. The instructor’s soothing voice immediately calmed me and I focused on my breath, pushing all thoughts and worries out of my mind.…
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