As one who is forever letting go of work she is no longer interested in and picking up new pursuits, I find I’m very “forward” thinking – not in the traditional sense, but in the sense that I’m always thinking about what lies in front of me. What interests will I pursue next? How can I adjust…
Month: October 2009
More on Following Your Heart
Following your heart is not to be confused with following your head. How do you tell the difference? Well, here’s what I’ve learned: 1 Your heart’s message is usually pretty simple. (For example, “Give them one more try.”) Your mind’s message is usually a never-ending stream of debating what you should do. (For example, “You’ve…
Follow Your Heart – part 1
You’ve probably heard it before. It has many forms: follow your heart, follow your bliss, go with your gut, etc. Some refer to it as the “voice” in their head, some even refer to it as a higher power speaking to them. Whatever it is, I’ve learned that when I follow it, I can’t go…
Encouragement
I’m a volunteer at Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site in Hyde Park, NY. What I love most about being there is talking to people from all over the country, and the world. Today I met a woman visiting us from Maine. Her father had asked me about the other historic sites in our area, and…
Why jump out of a perfectly good airplane?
Because there are plenty of things that I only want to try once, and this was one of them. It wasn’t like it was something I had wanted to do for a long time. In fact, I hadn’t given it much thought at all until the day a co-worker said “a bunch of us are…
The Things I Don’t Want to Do…
A friend saw the tagline for my blog and said, “Why don’t you shorten it to: one woman’s quest to pursue everything?” Well, because believe it or not, there are things that actually don’t interest me. I recall that Barbara Sher’s book Refuse to Choose had an exercise for those of us that felt too…
Talk to Strangers
Last week I was invited to a Barn Blessing. I had never been to one, and so of course accepted the invitation. The barn belongs to M. – someone I’d just met a few weeks earlier and spoken to for all of about 15 minutes. This was all the time I needed to find out…
A bike ride (part 2)
Whoever said there are no hills in Iowa has never attempted to ride a bike across that state. On the first day of our 490 mile trek, I spent just as much time walking my bike as I did riding it. T. and I realized that we had been practicing on a Rail Trail in…
A bike ride
Renaissance Souls find something nearly every day they want to pursue. Just today I saw a poster at my local coffee shop for a rain bucket building workshop. I have no idea why I’d need a rain bucket, but I definitely thought I’d like to learn more about what a rain bucket is, why I…
How I Became a Park Ranger
Mrs. R, my best friend’s mother, was always on the lookout for eligible men for me and her daughter. On this particular night, she was eyeing park rangers. We were at the annual Christmas Open House at Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site. It’s one of four National Parks in my hometown of Hyde Park, NY. …
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