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The Invitation: September 2014
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Monday, September 22, 2014. Practice Like You Play. Throughout my career as a sports television producer I’ve had the opportunity to interview athletes who were at the top of their game, the elite of their sport. My specialty has been to film profiles geared to inspire kids. And from Roger Federer to Michael Jordan, John Elway to Derek Jeter, when asked for advice, they all pretty much had the same thing to say…”Practice like you play”. Of a World Series game. Their nervous systems settle, their breathin...
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The Invitation: The Near and The Far
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Monday, November 17, 2014. The Near and The Far. Who likes being uncomfortable? Simple fact of the matter is that if you are not uncomfortable, you’re not growing. And being stagnant just isn’t my bag. So, time and again, I throw myself into the currents of change and I bless the courage in the choice to move towards the unfamiliar. I bless the momentum, the movement along the path, the adventure of the unexpected "next" instead of the dormancy of being mired in place. Every day we take a step. We must p...
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The Invitation: November 2014
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Monday, November 17, 2014. The Near and The Far. Who likes being uncomfortable? Simple fact of the matter is that if you are not uncomfortable, you’re not growing. And being stagnant just isn’t my bag. So, time and again, I throw myself into the currents of change and I bless the courage in the choice to move towards the unfamiliar. I bless the momentum, the movement along the path, the adventure of the unexpected "next" instead of the dormancy of being mired in place. Every day we take a step. We must p...
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The Invitation: Blessings in Disguise
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Thirty seconds after stepping on the plane to head home from India I was already longing to return. The vibrancy of the sights and sounds, the warmth of the people, the ways in which the temples opened me, shook me up, turned me inside out. This place halfway around the globe felt at once, completely foreign to me and amazingly like I had come home. It was a familiarity that ran deep in my blood. That was four years ago. The feeling hasn't diminished. I started to make inquirie...
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The Invitation: April 2015
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Thirty seconds after stepping on the plane to head home from India I was already longing to return. The vibrancy of the sights and sounds, the warmth of the people, the ways in which the temples opened me, shook me up, turned me inside out. This place halfway around the globe felt at once, completely foreign to me and amazingly like I had come home. It was a familiarity that ran deep in my blood. That was four years ago. The feeling hasn't diminished. I started to make inquirie...
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The Invitation: February 2014
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014. If you live on the East Coast, chances are, you’re over the snow this season. One more flurry on that five day forecast is enough to drive even the most sane person mad. We’ve spent the entire Winter blanketed in a world of grey and white and several feet of ice and snow, arbitrarily dumped from the skies. Days of dull light and frigid temperatures that make you hunker down inside a warm coat or the comfort of your home. Days that make you turn inside and hibernate. Like the n...
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The Invitation: December 2014
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014. It’s New Year’s Eve and the earth has completed yet another revolution around the watchful sun. New Years always feels like change. Even though it’s one day falling seamlessly into the next like all the others before it, it simply FEELS different. It’s a marker. A time to reflect. A time to renew, to stoke the fires of hope for a better, deeper connection with ourselves. With the turning of the calendar page, we turn a personal page of our own. Healing for our communities.
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The Invitation: Turning the Page
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014. It’s New Year’s Eve and the earth has completed yet another revolution around the watchful sun. New Years always feels like change. Even though it’s one day falling seamlessly into the next like all the others before it, it simply FEELS different. It’s a marker. A time to reflect. A time to renew, to stoke the fires of hope for a better, deeper connection with ourselves. With the turning of the calendar page, we turn a personal page of our own. Healing for our communities.
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The Invitation: January 2014
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Thursday, January 16, 2014. For most it’s just another innocuous day on the calendar. Me it’s 24 long hours, an enemy that I battle against. It was a Friday. In “The Goldfinch”, Donna Tartt so eloquently captures this very thing. 8220;It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.”. A rusty nail…such a perfect depiction. Anyone who’s experienced such loss can relate. With the turning of each calendar year, I begin to feel the day approaching. I can close m...
