by jlouden | Oct 4, 2011 | Favorites
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....
by jlouden | Sep 16, 2011 | Favorites
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...
by jlouden | Aug 19, 2011 | Favorites
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...
by jlouden | Aug 10, 2011 | Favorites
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...
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...
