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Drawing Skills

September 8, 2015 By Arminda

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Isn’t the knowing of a child the most beautiful thing you ever experienced?

I love remembering my own sense of knowing during those years when I knew what I knew. And what I didn’t know, I imagined until it felt more real than what I knew.

Do you remember knowing you were amazing? At drawing, perhaps? Or riding horses. Or reading out loud with just the right inflections. Or hopping on one foot longer than anyone else. Or climbing trees. Or tap dancing. Or writing stories. Or molding clay. Or blocking all the goals. Or organizing clubs. Or giving recitations. Or calming a fussy child. Or performing tricks on your bike. Or knowing the alphabet backwards.

Do you remember when life got too serious for childhood games and make-believe?

What if tomorrow when you wake up you could be anything you want?

What if you could draw “a picture of a house that was so good, [you] had to hide it so nobody would steal it”?

What if that picture of that house was the remembering of amazing:

  • letting go of a fear that’s been holding you captive
  • having a conversation you’ve been avoiding
  • getting back to something you used to love but somewhere along the way forgot to keep loving it
  • planting the seed of a new possibility
  • exploring an option that didn’t exist today
  • sharing a talent
  • smiling from your inside out
  • not caring what anyone else thinks
  • going on an impromptu adventure
  • staying out late to star gaze
  • writing a poem
  • calling a friend
  • speaking your truth

What if you play a game today and engage with your thoughts and your to-do list as if you were a child again.

What are the “a lot of things” you can create when you come from that place of knowing you’re amazing?

Filed Under: Blog, Weekly Wisdom, Writing Tagged With: amazing, child, child wisdom, creation, fear, games, imagination, make-believe, possibility

Short List

April 1, 2015 By Arminda

ShortList
On Sept 4 2014, Maia had a kidney transplant, receiving a donated kidney from her father. Three weeks later, she experienced an acute rejection episode. In order to stop the organ rejection and save the kidney, Maia underwent a series of aggressive treatments. She continues to face complications as a result of these very immunosuppressive treatments. Although she’s been fighting a virus in her kidney for the past 4 months and has not yet returned to school, she is in great spirits.

When asked if she had any advice for others, she replied:

1. Read a lot.
2. Exercise once every day.
3. Eat healthy.
4. Study hard.
5. Be with people who make you happy.

Thank you, Maia, for this profoundly simple list. Thank you for reminding me that being human, while not always pixies and fairy dust, is what we make of it, despite what gets chosen for us.

1. I’m currently reading two books: Mastery by George Leonard & Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins.
2. I’ll be taking my dogs out for a good dose of sunshine this afternoon.
3. I love drinking my kale; my favorite combo is 1/2 lemon, 2 apples, 1 inch of ginger, & a bunch of kale all served through the juicer. Yum 🙂
4.  Life is my text book and I’m so grateful for all my lessons.
5. My people make me so very happy.

Take a moment for a personal inventory.

Now is your perfect opportunity.

Filed Under: Blog, Weekly Wisdom, Writing Tagged With: books, child wisdom, exercise, happiness, healthy eating, kidney transplant, life lessons, reading, study hard

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