The start of this year and the promises made were a laundry list of the things I wanted to do. The things that move me forward. Not to be confused with a New Years resolution which can seem a repeating statement as if it was on a never ending loop. This year started the return of one of all time favorite characters. Carrie Bradshaw aka "Sex and the City". But this time the story line seems to be more about me in so many ways. I chose to borrow "And Just Like That"

Its that time again where we start to wrap up so many goals that we have made and go into Turbo mode so we can end the year with some breathtaking moments. All of this comes parading by as we turn onto Holiday Lane. The year for me has had its challenges and some of those OMG moments. I would find myself wanting to run as fast as I could only to realize how would I get back once the panic stopped. Having access to so many talented people, colleagues, friends and the whate

What is Love to me? It's not something you can just pinpoint and label. It is not something that you can put away in a drawer somewhere and forget it. You can get into all kinds and forms and try to dissect each and every aspect. From self love to love for others or falling into love. A little music to set the tone if you please.... So let's clear the air here and if I may borrow from a Streisand movie. It just seemed to move the lever forward and needs to be said Fo

by Rand Angel Wanted to at least acknowledge Five years of writing Live Live Live. What was to be a Labor of Love became a personal adventure for myself. Originally intended to spotlight those that had inspired, motivated and driven me personally on a day to day to bases. This evolved into my own personal moments that anyone that reads the post would come to understand why I was inspired or what I got from these individuals on a regular bases. Most of the people mentione

"To Live Long and to go mad is better than dying without purpose'. What better way to grab you from what you are doing and hit you with a profound statement!! Lets jump into it with music.... When the lights in my street go out and All the people lie sleeping under clouds and They're dreaming of better than this Then my brother calls me and he's sayin' Oh, I can hear the angels praying That we can do better than this What better way to celebrate a five year writing assignmen

When 'the way you see yourself, the way you see the world, and the way you see other people' are shocked and overturned by an event – and a gap arises between your 'orienting systems' and that event – simple stress cascades into trauma, often-mediated through sustained and severe feelings of helplessness. This was the opening statement from my virtual visit with my psych as I returned to getting help after a long long time. I learned that when I needed real answers from a n

Living my life as my authentic self can really at times pull all of the light from any room. Being an empath is that times ten, In case you have never met a true empath, then congratulations. You are here with one now. Let me give some back story so this can make sense. We are all about facts these days. So lets start: Empaths are highly sensitive individuals, who have a keen ability to sense what people around them are thinking and feeling. Psychologists may use the ter

Suddenly I don't have to clean everything over and over or be concerned whether the mask was doing what it was intended. To block out a plague. Sounds daunting. Well! It was all that and more. I wanted to talk about moving on. Moving forward. Making all the pieces fit when in reality they never did. Lets take a breath! Its not time for a Heartbreak Anthem Just using my tools of writing so you become curious as to where I am going with all this post. Never fear, ther

Now as we are having constant and consistent reminders of where we are heading. Of where we are going. As we make the movements forward from a year of silence, there is a feeling of how hard it was to just take a small step. When you lean back and take it all in, there is the sometimes head shaking back and forth as we remind ourselves that it just seems so hard. On that point then there is the "ying" of the "yang" thought of "that was easy'. What we had built up in o

There is something that keeps driving me back to these moments. When I get so full of emotion. When I get so full of pain that it comes the time to release. Release it all. I can't be driven by my need to be noticed. My need to be heard. This is not about just myself. This is something much larger. I have a voice inside me. A channel to a better time. A better life. Flowers in hand, waiting for me Every word in poetry Won't call me by name, only "baby" The more that yo

For some of you that know me well and within reason, I would say this blog is my interpretation of Living Life fully. A life well lived! I admit to having an unbalanced left side versus right side approach to how I see things. I tend to want to rearrange the moments in my life so they can and will make sense as to what just happened. In my case when I was wearing my design hat, I am constantly living in a world of walls being deleted and openings added to let in more light.

There have been so many days where I have started to write my next blog that it became a huge effort to even begin to write. Truth is so many things happening in the world we used to recognize have had me questioning what is happening here. What am I doing here? The actual messaging that I wanted to share was I know how to make things better, that I know what living life to its fullest meant for me. The rules are that it needed to be relatable. Needs to inspire, motivate a

I guess like most people that have something to say, they all think they have this profound thing that they want to get out, to get off their chest. Well, for me it is no secret that I have a lot of those. I have had them for awhile now. For the first time in my world everyone i know is on the same page with me. We are all having to come out of this darkness that took over every part of our life. That consumed so much of our own personal path forward It's a new year. A

Look at me You may think you see Who I really am But you'll never know me Who is that man I see Staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show Who I am inside? This could sound off putting but this is a really big moment happening for all of us. There are so many things happening simultaneously side by side. You might feel lost because of having to deal with things you never knew existed. Extreme emotions leaving you feeling a sense of being so alone. First