I love this article written by Kena, a girl I went to school with, and co-founder of Brika.
Its about the five things she has learned since turning 40. Check it out and great article Kena!
So last night I went to a documentary, as part of Toronto’s Hot Doc festival, that was about a family who lives in Iraq and the grandmother who breaks rocks off the nearby mountain for a living.
The movie was slow and not exactly entertaining. It did however make me think.
This post is about the times when life does not go as you had hoped or as we want in the moment.
Post Script to Success on My Terms Blog Post:
I have been getting a lot of questions of interest with respect to the Success on My Terms blog post I wrote in 2015 asking how things turned out?
I’m going to start this post with this video:
This is so beautiful this idea that irrespective of your regrets and mistakes, approaching what is to come with a clean “slate”.
So I decided to deactivate my Facebook account as an experiment.
This is a poem that I found in a children’s book that I recently read to my kids. I thought it was so beautiful.
Here it is:
You’re here for a reason, you certainly are.
The world would be different without you, by far.
What if becoming who and what we truly are happens not through
striving and trying but by recognizing and receiving the people and
places and practices that offer us the warmth of encouragement we
need to unfold?