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6 Fool Proof Ways to Make A Difference
One Acknowledge that you want to. Feel into the ache in your heart or the tug in your belly. Bow to your desire. Maybe your desire is to educate girls, end under-earning, heal veterans, open a dialogue between warring neighbors, stop bullying in your kid's school,...
What if Your Daughter/Niece/Sister was Forced to Marry at 10?
Sitting on the couch last night next to my daughter, Lilly, I was moved to tears - as I often am these days (senior year, enough said) by this young woman. Her kindness. Her focus and resolve. Her silly dances. Her...
A Big Week on the Interwebs
As you may have noticed, I'm offering Teach Now again, with my friend and co-creator Michele. It's one of the best things I've ever had a hand in creating. I've been on fire writing guest posts about teaching and I thought you might enjoy one or two of these butter...
A Genius Gets Out of Hot Shower and You Will, Too
It appears to be Patti Digh week here at the Savor & Serve blog. Today, we have another helpful writing video: What to do when a swarm of glittering ideas overtakes you on a saunter, but when you get home, you find you got nothing. All that brilliance crumbles...
How to Make Fear Your Writing Companion
My friends Patti Digh and Susan Piver and I met up on Skype last week to plan our September writing retreat. While we were there, we discoursed in helpful and hilarious ways on how to make fear, if not your friend, certainly somebody you can write along side of. Isn't...
You Just Want to Be Heard
seen witnessed grokked. Isn't it so? You don't want to be fixed made better no! The white bone of your soul wants to be heard. To be heard, it appears, we also must be listening. Which entails opening the tent flaps on our hearts and letting the stories of pain...
How to Defeat Resignation
There are days - weeks! years! - when it is so tempting to despair. To slip into resignation like an old shirt, dingy and stained, far from flattering, but oh so easy. Comforting in its utter lack of responsibility. :: Perhaps you look at the government of your...
How to Discover What You Want to Write
I'm toast. Exhausted. In need of renewal. Since I refuse (most of the time) to be a hypocrite, I am taking a few days off. I wanted to write a post about how to savor renewing but I'm too toasted to write it, and if forced myself to write it, I would be a hypocrite....
Early Harvest Brings Creative Freedom
I'm writing in the living room at the Mable Dodge Luhan house in the midst of leading my annual writing retreat. I can still taste the gluten-free coconut strawberry cupcake from dinner. I can hear the applause from the reading circle happening nearby. I...
Liberate Your Genius Now
What liberates your genius? (By genius I mean that which brings you alive and brings your gloriousness to the world.) Enough sleep? Bounteous self-kindness! Community? How about mindful questions? I adore questions - after all, I designed an entire organizing system...
Learning What You Are “Meant” To Do
Have you said it? Or heard a friend or client say it? "This is what I'm meant to do." or "This is not what I meant to do." Join me in banishing these words from...
What Does Ira Glass, Being-Well Fed, & Not Writing Have in Common?
They all inspired me this week. Here is my recommendations for savoring and serving support this week: Ira Glass, the laconically brilliant host and creative voice of This American Life did a series of You Tube videos on his creative learning curve. Struggle to...
Too Tired to Dream?
Over tea with a friend I love and who lives far away, after catching up on our kids and partners and parents, we got to the yummy stuf of talking about our dreams, our "bright shinies" as we call them, the new creative inklings beckoning to our hearts. I sipped my...
Savor & Serve Re-Sources
An occasional round up of Savoring & Serving inspirations from my heart to yours: Dave Meslin's TED talk offers 7 antidotes to antipathy. Vibrate off your chair and into action. Join me for Good's 30-day Waste Less Challenge. The goal: Produce just one...
Want More Energy, Passion, Creativity?
I pulled a muscle in my back 3 weeks ago doing pull-ups. Painful, annoying, but you know what's really icky? I can't move much. (The photo is from our trip to Costa Rica to remind me of feeling healthy and whole again!) I love to move. I need to move. My...
How to Be Astonished before 10 am
Although it is not yet 10 am, I have: enjoyed clean running water eight times and indoor plumbing twice sipped tea from the Qimen County in Anhwei province in China nibbled strawberries from the foothills of the...
The Hummingbird Will Help Us
A video about hummingbirds in which I tear up as people walk by my house - it makes better sense if you watch (click here if you don't see a video). It's been a fabulous week. Monday I was over at The Domino Project's Self-Reliance Initiative; a 30 day compilation of...
Will You Walk with Me?
Since I started this Savor & Serve experiment, I've been running away from two hairy questions. I look over my shoulder at them frequently, then, just as quickly, look away. I don't want to ask these questions. I don't want to write about them. But you know what?...
Trust Yourself
I'm part of The Domino Project's #Trust30 - Trust Yourself Writing Project. It's a 30-day writing challenge where 30 writers and thinkers provide writing prompts for 30 days, inspired by Emerson's classic, Self-Reliance. Today that thinker is me! My prompt: Nothing is...
Write to Change the World Books
How do you write to change the world? It's certainly a question I'm dancing with - how to fashion words about my experiences and insights that move you to love your life and love the world? Here are the books that are helping me learn how to do that - I hope. (Taos...
13 Ways to Savor & Serve (unity baby unity)
Let's bring into action, shall we? 1. Love list: write down what you love. Linger over it. Share it on the bus, at work, on Facebook. When you own what you love, nothing can stop you. 2. Talk to a homeless person (or anyone else you would shy away from) with the same...
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