moving or not, couldn't miss making a March calendar ...

As I may have mentioned I need to move.  Moving is not easy for most anyone and it is especially challenging to someone (me) who saves most everything, especially things that most people call trash. 

With this challenging development I need to focus on the move, so it will be a bit quiet here on this blog.  I may be documenting the journey on my art blog, virginiafitzgerald.blogspot.com, although, I am trying to eliminate all possible distractions, so who knows ...

But moving or not I didn't want to miss sharing this month's calendar. 

Please enjoy.

p.s. Feel free to download and print out this calendar 

for your personal use this month.

 if you are having problems downloading or printing the calendar, 

just leave a comment & email and I will send you a PDF. 

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Today be fearless!! Stand up for yourself!!

Be brave and be fearless, 

and for God's sake, 

stand up for yourself. 

Gretchen Carlson

simply this!!

love, mom

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Live life creatively ...

Be brave enough to live life creatively. 

The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Alan Alda

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day 95: be authentic, brave, wonky; not perfect

'torqued and tethered ...' (2013) exhibited at the SSAC

Striving for perfection is
the greatest stopper there is. 

You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. 

It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. 

Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best. 

Laurence Olivier

Trying to be perfect is a trap. Perfection is the enemy of the individual, the authenticity and the unique.  It is also an impossible objective, unattainable, and can only fuel the fires of the inner-critic.

So don't chase perfection. Instead aim to always give it your best shot, be brave, take risks, get out of your comfort zone.  By taking risks one grows and learns more about themselves, they discover their talents, their fears, their passions.  And if you are afraid of making a mistake or an error you will not take risks, you won't stretch yourself and you will miss out on enriching your life and being more you! and that would be a loss for both you and the rest of the world because each of us has much to offer, if we are only allowed to explore, flounder, fall, get up, dust ourselves off and take again.

come on, be imperfect! i dare you! XXXX
love, mom

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day42: be authentic ...

“If you trade your authenticity for safety, 

you may experience the following: 

anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, 

blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.” 

Brené Brown

It seems to me that the cost of not being authentic is quite high!! resentment, rage, anxiety ...
But sadly I feel that many times our authentic self gets buried by the difference expectations and messages the we receive when we are young, the 'should' from media, society, community and yes from family and parents?!?!
I was so mindful about giving you extra baggage but these patterns are deeply sown into the fabric of our lives.  But what I want to encourage you to do NOW is to start excavating your authentic self! Become aware of what you truly want in your life, what are your dreams, fears, expectations, not the ones that were handed down to you.
The sooner you become aware of what is really ours and what you inherited, you become more authentic, which is so much better for you. love, mom

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