by jlouden | Apr 12, 2011 | Favorites
I belong to a birthday club. We share a sumptuous dinner four or (hopefully) five times a year in celebration of each of our births. Here’s a picture from our most recent celebration: I share this with you because service happens best when we are connected. When...
by jlouden | Apr 8, 2011 | Favorites
I launched this experiment 8 weeks ago. I can only chuckle at my fantasies of what would happen in eight weeks. I am so good at fantasies. Savoring and serving? Got nothing to do with fantasy. It’s got everything to do with being in your body. Honoring what you...
by jlouden | Apr 5, 2011 | Favorites
Can you feel it? Can you? Please tell me you can because I am feeling it to vastly, so insistently, I can barely sleep. Some days I don’t know what to do with all the energy bubbling up through me, so I go outside and howl with the coyotes. Tell me you feel it. Then...
by jlouden | Apr 1, 2011 | Favorites
I was talking to astounding server-of-life Julie Daley this morning about a fall event we are dreaming up with sizzle muse extraordinaire Dyana Valentine, mega-soul mogul Danielle LaPorte, make-your-own-luck maven Susan Hyatt (get her new book, it is great!), the...
by jlouden | Mar 28, 2011 | Favorites
A month and three days ago, Beth’s son was murdered. Beth belongs to my Savor & Serve community. She attended one of my retreats last year. Over the years, I’ve gotten to share her heart’s desires, to walk with her as she makes a life she loves...
by jlouden | Mar 22, 2011 | Favorites
Listening to NPR this morning, a doctor in Afghanistan said the entire country is very depressed. Caught between our drones and the Taliban, with no justice, no hope, no normalcy, despair is killing them. Driving home, I thought about how despair and depression...
