by Jan on November 25, 2009
I’d like to share a story with you. It starts kind of sad, but the ending is very joyful, very jubilant: In 1995, I bought a beautiful plain notebook with a specific intention. I’d always been a note-taker, a list-maker, but this was quite different. This journal was to be my companion as I sat [...]
by Jan on November 24, 2009
If you’re able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence. Barbara Cook (The image is pure copper, mined by my grandfather in Andalucia in the 1920s.)
by Jan on November 18, 2009
‘Reflection’, what a great word. It’s one of those ‘means lots of things’ words that I love so much. I don’t know about you, but I use it quite a lot, to the point of cliché, in relation to thinking things through, considering stuff. And you know that thing where, when you look at [...]
by Jan on November 16, 2009
It’s so easy to focus on what’s not great in our lives, isn’t it? Somehow the less-than-wonderful stuff seems to demand the most attention, to take up the most space. Now, I don’t know how you feel about this, but I tend to think it’s well worth while taking the time, when we can, to [...]
by Jan on November 11, 2009
Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage. Anais Nin A call to expand our lives into the space available, and beyond!