Archive for the ‘Sparkle’ Category

Winning despite…

Posted on October 13th, 2009 by Shawn

Hallelujah!
Had a great day today!   WHOO HOOOOO!    I delivered a presentation to a new group of people…not people who would typically be “my people.”  Oh, the mistakes I made!!  Some really big blunders like misreading the audience and the energy level I “should” have delivered from.  But the point was I stepped out of [...]

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Feeling vibrant

Posted on May 16th, 2009 by Shawn

Feeling Vibrant. A gal in a yellow, sparkly dress, face aglow with a hearty laugh.
Yeah, that’s vibrant. I have that picture in my office, a part of a treasure map I did in one of Maria Nemeth’s courses. Next to the gal in the yellow sparkles and the belly laugh is the [...]

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Love and Sparkles

Posted on February 22nd, 2009 by Shawn

A dear friend forwarded this message from “The Universe” – great thought-provoking or inspiring tidbits from Mike Dooley. It’s a fun one! You can sign up to receive his musings up to five times a week.
Did you know that whenever you feel love, you literally begin to glow? You probably did.
But did you know [...]

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Water Sparkles

Posted on December 26th, 2008 by Shawn

Sparkling is the glint of light on water or ice or the light of the Divine being reflected in the mirror of our hearts or souls.
When we clean or polish our mirrors and align them with the light of God, His Light sparkles our soul.  We become more beautiful, more light.

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Delight

Posted on December 4th, 2008 by Shawn

Watching a YouTube video of Barack Obama on Ellen DeGeneres’ show made me realize, yet again, how impressed I am by this man who will be president of the United States.  There is something about him that seems so genuine and so accessible.   His election signals a major change for the country, and maybe for [...]

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Living music

Posted on July 12th, 2008 by Shawn

The Music
For sixty years I have been forgetful,
every minute, but not for a second
has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.
I deserve nothing. Today I recognize
that I am the guest the mystics talk about.
I play this living music for my host.
Everything today is for the host.
- Rumi
What if we lived our lives as though we [...]

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well behaved women

Posted on March 10th, 2008 by Shawn

Well-behaved women rarely make history. – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote those (or very similar) words in an article, Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668-1735 . American Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Spring, 1976), [...]

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What’s mine to do

Posted on February 11th, 2008 by Shawn

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
- Henry Ford
Have you ever found something you were really passionate about…a thought or idea [...]

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What is calling you out of hiding?

Posted on January 8th, 2008 by Shawn

As a part of starting a new year, I am in the process of changing many things. Over the last year, I’ve recognized that my work has been changing, taking on a slightly different theme from the one I’d originally started with. I noticed I hadn’t been using my old cards for some [...]

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Your unique expression

Posted on January 1st, 2008 by Shawn

The other night I woke up in the middle of the night and for whatever reason, flipped on the television to the local PBS station. Christiane Northrup was speaking and began to quote famed dancer and choreographer, Martha Graham: “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy , a quickening that is [...]

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