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I wander around alone in silence a lot.
I always feel incredibly powerful, capable, and hopeful when I take the time to.
People don’t believe me when I share that most of my hundreds of thousands of road miles have been spent in silence with only the sounds of the wind passing by my ears, but that’s the truth. There’s something that’s magical and empowering that happens when you let yourself wander and see your surroundings without interference.
As I’ve been working with my talented, patient, and generous web guy Bobby sending him information, photos, links, etc. for the BLR face lift we are doing, I found this link from A Skirt! Magazine issue I was featured in before I drove to Alaska.
My, my, the things that have happened since this photo and article. Oh the places we have been.
…for all the unplanned and totally random, awesome connections and moments I have made while working from their billion locations.
Just now, business guy next too me updating friend: “Yeah, so my son graduated and he’s on his way to Alaska. He wants to stay there for the summer and be a fisherman. My wife is kind of freaking out.”
Now there are some words to live by!
Thanks for being such an amazing person in my life G!
Check out my friend Sean, Founder of One Week Job:
Today is a prefect day for me to share this, as I have made a big decision in this theme of coming alive. I will share all about it here in 3 weeks, so stay tuned.
If whatever you are doing with your time isn’t making you come alive, the time is now to make a change.
…I just wrote that line in the title above to a new reader who sent me a note here and I thought I’d share.
LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE QUIET.
Have fun when you are having fun. Who cares if you’re too loud?
Happy Tuesday 
…having a conversation about living on the east coast or the west. I always think of the following when I talk east or west:
Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’97.
Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.
The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience…
I will dispense this advice now.
As I ran along the lake this morning, It dawned on me:
Never fail, my absolute best moments of clarity are when I am either running or driving- down a road alone, and in complete silence. Like a mom rushing to kiss a child’s bruised knee after a fall, my road time by foot or by car is for me what “makes it all better.”
“You have to represent something bigger than yourself.”
Amen to that Viola Davis! Inspiring quote, incredible performance in The Help, and that green dress you are wearing tonight? Gorgeous.
Serendipity? Luck? Perfect timing? Meant to be?
All of the above and then some.
In 2009 a girl LeeAnne (whom I’d just met once when I lived in Wilmington, North Carolina) sent me an email one day out of nowhere: