What Do You Stand For?

Do you ever wake up with a song on your lips or lyrics dancing through your mind? One morning I woke to the chorus of Fun’s “Some Nights.” What do I stand for? A great question, don’t you think?




Do you ever wake up with a song on your lips or lyrics dancing through your mind? One morning I woke to the chorus of Fun’s “Some Nights.” What do I stand for? A great question, don’t you think?
What would it mean to have the heart cook? To see it show up in its cozy kitchen and plan the menu for the day?
Great things come in small packages and big concepts are the gift of this week's short chapter of Brené Brown's "Daring Greatly." “The space between our practiced values (what we’re actually doing, thinking, and feeling) and our aspirational values (what we want to do, think, and feel) is the value gap, or what I call ‘the disengagement divide.’” Brené Brown
Earlier today (while reading the “On the Same Page” post for this week, Shining Through), I was overcome with a wave of emotion by this line: I want to be shined through.
The words felt tender and true. I want to be shined through. I don’t want to do the shining.
It’s a lot of work to stay all polished and glimmery. Spit here. Rub there.
I want to be shined through. To Be. Not Do.
"If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders." Andrew Harvey
In my latest newsletter, I shared a few gifts that inspire me. They are a window into what I'm savoring this summer—the things I selectively let into my life that bring joy and peace. My hope is there might be something on the list that will do the same for you.