Embody Your Awesomeness – Day 2!
Well, geez, I was so busy embodying awesomeness today that I almost forgot to share this. Oops.
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i look almost naked here. that counts. thanks to Autumn Azure Photography!
Today was an awesome sandwich – a juicy writing project thrown in between two slices of time with people I love. Most of today’s chats involved knowing how to manage the creative flow – i.e. following the energy as it comes to you and really “pouring gasoline onto the fire” when it’s hot. There is the additional wisdom to know that when it is not “hot” not to push and let it be what it is. We talked about how to trick your brain into being more productive..when you’re stuck on a project just “assign” your brain to go and work on that while you move on to the next task. It’s amazing what happens when you come back to the problem and surprising how effortlessly the solution can come to you when you check in again.
Today was an emotionally exhausting day. I did my first practice read of a short ten-minute piece that I’ll read at the Verbalists Intensive next week. It’s a very raw piece and if I can manage to master the emotions within it it will be really powerful. If, if, if… definitely the biggest performance/speaking challenge that I’ve given myself to date and I feel grateful for the incredible team of writers and director. I really believe in this piece and my ability to deliver it…so mucho practice before dress rehearsal on Thursday.
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circus mice!
My dreams last night consisted of an open field edged with roses, a lovely house party with a bunch of hippie circus folks (including two tiny circus mice and a cute chipmunk in a fedora!) and then walking around the streets of Seattle in the post-party glow completely naked feeling the warm air all over my body. I was loving every minute of it and then realized that I didn’t have any clothes on but didn’t care. It felt too good.
I walked through Cal Anderson Park into a dark greenhouse full of delicious earthy smells and jungley plants until I realized that there might be crazy people lurking in the dark shadows. As I stepped out of the greenhouse the sun came up and a schoolbus full of children pulled up. I decided at that point that it was likely time to put some clothes on and I begrudgingly pulled on some pants that were lying outside of the greenhouse.
I’m thinking this is meaning that I am ready to just be naked in the world: it feels so good to be authentic and in integrity even if it doesn’t necessarily make me popular sometimes. Tempering the honesty with kindness – always a practice for me. Although darkness definitely exists, the light is always more powerful so I’ll keep cultivating a relationship with that.
I ended the night snuggled up with my nieces watching this movie called “Brave”…I never thought that I’d quote a Disney movie but this really resonated: “Some say fate is beyond our command, but I know better. Our destiny is within us. You just have to be brave enough to see it.”
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