We want to bring a bit of richness and pleasure to your midweek, every week. Wednesday can be dull. But here, we want Wednesday to be a little dip into sensuality, a little treat for each of your five (make that six) senses. Desire. Tomorrow we’re going to get serious, and look deeply at desire […]
Desire – On Beauty and Turbulence
The most beautiful sky I’ve ever seen was my own city, at night, from a turbulence-tossed plane. As the tiny aircraft flew in from the north the river slowly appeared, molten pewter, reflecting the lights and early summer stars. Along the circular horizon the sun was setting in a smoldering persimmon glow. I held my […]
Awaken The Senses – Reinvention
Our big Wednesday announcement of business reinvention has been received by you all with such wonderful stories and excitement. Thank you so much for being with us in this transition and for sharing your encouragement and joy. Normally we post some goodness for all five senses on Wednesdays, that awkward middle part of the week […]
Vivid Conversations on Reinvention
Here at Vivid it is a big week. We’re not just talking about reinvention, we are living it. It looks different around here because we are growing ~ blossoming into a new phase. We are listening deep to our hard-won inner wisdom and creating the changes in our business that we want to see in […]
Mother of Reinvention
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” ~ Anais Nin It’s a fresh new week and a brand new month. August has arrived fast on the […]
Awaken the Senses: Celebration
We want to bring a bit of richness and pleasure to your midweek, every week. Wednesday can be dull. But here, we want Wednesday to be a little dip into sensuality, a little treat for each of your five (make that six) senses. Today we are thinking about simple celebrations. Life is short and here […]
Dancing In the Dark
Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost. ~Pina Bausch Change is a terrifying word. Especially arbitrary change—change we feel we have no control over. It’s no wonder that the word menopause is not nearly as scary for most of us as the term The Change. “You’re going through The Change.” “She’s experiencing The Change.” It positively […]
Ordinary Celebrations and Tiny Revolutions
In my mailbox this week was a beautiful note. Handmade, with watercolors on simple paper, the cursive words were an invitation to come and celebrate the full moon with dinner. “We have realized,” it read, “that our life needs more celebrations.” It went on to say that their plans were simple, that children were welcome. […]
Awaken the Senses – Moon
At midlife we often find ourselves fighting the inclination to become dull and stiff. We may go through a phase during which we feel our senses are not as acute, our pleasures less intense, our mind and body less flexible than they were in younger years. Many of us have felt these things. Yet this […]
Listening to Our Bodies
When this year began I made one giant promise. Not the sort written at midnight on New Year’s Eve, fueled by holiday indulgences and anxiety at the year ahead and not the kind written in shame-scrawl on the back of an envelope which also happened to contain notes from a recent doctor’s visit. No, this […]
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