by jlouden | Aug 4, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
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...
by jlouden | Jul 30, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
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...
by jlouden | Jul 7, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
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...
by jlouden | Apr 26, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
My assistant Deb gave me this stone for Christmas. I’ve been re-reading Thoreau with my daughter and I’m struck by the same thing I was when I read him as a kid – he makes living by your principles sound like an early Nike ad – just do it. He makes it sounds so...
by jlouden | Feb 16, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Today is the first day of my new adventure, The Serving and Savoring Experiment. It’s a memoir of one year in which I explore the sweet spot where my desire to savor life meets my desire to serve the world. In which I ask “Can knitting together savoring &...
by jlouden | Nov 18, 2010 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
What is calling to you, what is yours to do in the world, is calling to you clearly. Clearly! What is calling to you to do is not one inch to the left or right, it’s not over there behind the potato chips – it’s exactly in front of you. Yes, that...
