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Nancy in Motion:
Anticipating Gustav
Godspeed to the people of New Orleans, from the residents obeying evacuation orders to those working in emergency services.
Mirror, mirror
Rush Limbaugh on Sarah Palin:
She’s not going to remind anybody of their ex-wife, she’s going to remind men, “Gee, I wish she was single.”
You can’t make this stuff up. If indeed we manifest things into our lives, then America has manifested a big, fat mirror and what’s reflecting back with regard to this election is starting to scare me.
The distaff broad brush
Are we really to believe — as the pundits are waxing on about — that “women” are going to cross over from Democrat to Republican in this election because a person with a uterus is on the other ticket? A person who believes what she does with that uterus should be dictated by law?
If that is so, how very sad.
For those already aligned with the principles of the Republican party to be heartened by this choice is understandable. It’s a brilliant pick. But anybody who says they were in Hillary’s corner and crosses over to get behind this Republican ticket because of Sarah Palin is sadly misguided in what the right to vote actually means. That’s not what the fight was about.
Blessedly, I have more faith in “women” than that.
Graciousness in defeat
I was amazed and amused by the folks finding all the things Hillary Clinton didn’t say about Barack Obama in her speech at the Democratic National Convention, when what she did say was impressive simply from a graciousness-in-defeat standpoint. So I had a little fun with today’s Game Plan, A Tale of the Not-So-Sore Loser.
Of feathers and mice
I have this thing with feathers. When I see them as I walk along city streets, I believe they’re telling me to step up the writing of my book. The last two days, the feathers are everywhere! Big ones and small ones. Different colors. Amazing.
I have this thing with mice. They represent irrational fear. Yesterday I saw one skitter by at the Hoboken waterfront. Today I saw one in the grocery store. Chills run up my body as I write this. Yikes.
So here they are. Write your book. Irrational fear. Two days of strong messages on these fronts. Are they linked?
Are you kidding me? Of course they are.
Are they ever.
Finding your rhythm
While working out recently and noticing that my pace picks up significantly depending on the music I’m blasting into my ears, I started thinking about the bigger message of how to apply that principle in other areas of life. It’s really about setting yourself up for success. Hence, today’s Game Plan column called What Gets You Motivated? was born.
Cornball alert
Keep going.
–Harriet TubmanMichelle Obama’s speech was wonderful. Hillary Clinton’s speech was phenomenal.
I am proud to be a woman.
Bring on the stillness
Buddhist meditation class felt like a milestone tonight. Something has clicked. Maybe my ability to focus on an intention and stay with it. Maybe the breathing. Maybe the fact that I’m relaxed. It wasn’t always that way.
No, no. There was a time when my racing mind was about all I could take. Silence? Not golden.
That was then. This is now.
It’s all in the journey.
Gloriously mundane
It’s been a weekend of exploring Soho, working on projects, reading, exercising, eating well, occasional snippets of TV. All with a backdrop of gorgeous weather.
Very luxurious.
Kind of like John Lennon said, “Life is what happens while you are making other plans.”
Love that.
Brilliant ideas
Earlier in the week, the same day I had a root canal, I found out there’s a book out there that has the same premise as the one I’m working on. So today’s Game Plan begins like this: “I thought a root canal was the most painful thing that would occur in my life last Monday, but then I got a swift kick in the teeth.”
Read the rest here: Setback or Springboard? You Decide.
