Enjoy the gradual discovery and growth of your purpose ...

I began to have an idea of my life, 

not as the slow shaping of achievement 

to fit my preconceived purposes, 

but as the gradual discovery and growth 

of a purpose which I did not know.

Joanna Field

love, mom

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day44: bushwhack; find your own path ...

There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. 

And wouldn’t you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. 

This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day.

Jodie Foster to University of Pennsylvania in 2006

You alone get to chart your course!

 how exciting is that!?! 

And this path belongs to YOU, no one else! 

PLEASE remember that!!!

 I believe finding your own trail can get confusing.  It is easy to get caught up with wanting to please others, or looking for validation and/or approval from teachers, peers, parents (again, sorry)...?!?! And again, there's social media; all eyes on you all the time (as it seems),

 making it is too easy for one to lose sight of one's own personal dreams and desires.

SO...

Where do YOU want to go?? What is YOUR path??

it does not matter if what other think, if you are following your heart, 

creating your personal journey, than anyone who loves you will be happy!

Now go knock, trailblazer, bushwhack, chart, tabulate, navigate, survey, research, break ground, explore, pioneer to find your frontier! and send me a postcard ...

I can't wait to see where your paths lead you!! 

love, mom

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day16: respect your journey

Respect yourself enough to walk away 

from anything that no longer serves you, 

grows you, or makes you happy.

Robert Tew

Walking away can be so hard sometimes,

 but if you are in a bad situation, relationship, class, etc. and 

you know inside that it is no longer good for you,
take steps to change things up.
This is your unique journey and yours alone,
 and you get to make the most of it!!!

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may this dress bring us the knowledge of all that we can do!!!! Congrats to Harriet!!! X

this quote rings SO true for Harriet, for many events in her life,
but especially this one!!!! I'm so proud! X

“You're off to Great Places!

Today is your day!

Your mountain is waiting,

So... get on your way!” 

Dr. Seuss, 

Oh, The Places You'll Go!

today, my baby is starting HIGH SCHOOL!!! 

WOW!!!

and it is a double wow because her high school is

Walnut Hill School for the Arts!!

it is all very exciting!!! 

Congratulations my dear sweet Harriet!!!

May all your dreams and desires come true and 

you find your passion and your wings during this next step 

in this journey called life!!!

XXXXXXX

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May this dress bring us all happy travels . . .

be they to far away lands or be they a more inner journey.

"We travel, some of us forever, 

to seek other states, other lives, other souls".

Anais Nin

yesterday my eldest, Maya, headed off to Santa Fe for a week long service project lead

 by the Village Church of Wellesley.  This is the second year that she has participated in this project and I think it is her favorite week of the year. So I was glad that she was going again, but as I sent her off to Logan airport at 5AM I had that a-ha moment of my baby girl growing up!!

so this post is especially for her, however we are all on a journey, be it physically or spiritual or emotional. In fact we are all on many journeys!! And at times they can be rewarding, relaxing, challenging, disappointing and/or just right.  But no matter how the journey is it is best to remember to keep moving forward, even when it is hard, even if you travel with baby steps.  

Life is a journey! 

xxxx

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Today let us remember to take our time on our own personal journeys . . .

'discover . . .' scratchboard

“O snail

Climb Mount Fuji

But slowly, slowly!”

Kobayashi Issa

In Issa's time, to climb Mount Fuji was thought to be a sacred pilgrimage and each person would climb it, or smaller replicas, in their own time, at their own pace.

In reference to current times, this haiku reminds us that there is no correct speed for which to live our life.  There is no prescribed pace for which to achievement enlightenment.  

We are all on our own spiritual quest with our own personal speed.  

However in this world of social media and the rat race mentality it is too easy to compare yourself with others, feeling as though you are not good enough, or not going fast enough.  But your personal growth is not a race, it is for you and only you to explore, climb, discover on your own terms.  

So for today, stop judging yourself in terms of others and embrace your personal journey.  

See if, for today, you can sit back and observe what is your pace; the pace that allows you to breathe and feel peaceful and calm?!? 

namaste ~

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