Loaded Life

01/06/2023

Day 2 - Problem solving

13/05/2023

You still have time to get your ticket for 2023 | Fearless Women's Forest Gathering next weekend ✨🌻🔥 We lovingly dedicate so much of our time and mental bandwidth to bring a weekend full of absolute heart, soul, connection and fun…

It’s like all of the things we know we would love; that would make us feel welcomed, nurtured, comfortable and ready to have fun… we make THAT happen! Plus a whole heap of take home’s to live an empowered life! Join us for some belly laughs, lots of love and a heap of fun 💗

01/03/2023

01/01/2023

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
T.S. Eliot - Four Quartets, 1936-42.

Georges Barbier - Fireworks in Venice.

10/12/2022

"You are preparing every day of your life--or you should be. I'm enraged by the term 'getting ready.' Well, I mean, you're past the point of needing to be ready; you can't be 'getting ready.' I think it's a narcotic. I think Tennessee [Williams] is quite right about that. Making notes; praying; talking it out. This is seen as preparation. Listen, no one is ever perfect or just what everyone wanted. You just go out and show up ready, prepared, energetic, grateful, fulsome. You astonish yourself and others when it turns out you were exactly what was needed, but you don't 'get ready' for this. You show up prepared to be what was needed. Each and every time." Katharine Hepburn/1990.

06/11/2022

Tell us stories!

17/09/2022

I love this so much! Truly authentic creative living.

Yvon Chouinard’s dissent is a useful reminder that the days of companies justifying almost anything for profits may be numbered.

14/09/2022

‘You have experienced becoming and you have made your soul grow’ 🧡

“In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent:

“Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:

I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.

What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.

Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?

Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash receptacals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.
God bless you all!"
Kurt Vonnegut

11/08/2022

05/08/2022

The term wabi sabi is composed of two kanji characters. The second part, sabi (寂) is said to date back to the eighth century, when it was used to designate desolation in a poetic way. From the twelfth century, the term evolved and referred more precisely to the delightful contemplation of what is old and worn. It was also used to talk about the beauty of faded or withered things. Sabi could also mean “old and elegant,” or “being rusty,” with an untranslatable impression of peacefulness.

The term wabi (侘) only appeared in the fifteenth century to designate a new aesthetic sensibility closely related to the tea ceremony, which referred to the general atmosphere and to the objects used during this formal service. The definition of wabi can be traced back to loneliness or melancholy, to the appreciation of a serene life, far from the urban hustle and bustle.

The term wabi sabi (侘寂) remains difficult to translate. For Japanese people, wabi sabi is a feeling, more than a concept, that can be found in classical Japanese aesthetics: flower arrangement, literature, philosophy, poetry, tea ceremony, Zen gardens, etc. Wabi sabi goes against contemporary over-consumption, but also encourages simplicity and authenticity in everything.

Examples: I know you’ve experienced wabi sabi in your life without knowing it. A common example: a favorite mug or cup and saucer, chipped but still cherished because of the story behind it; maybe it came from a special place or was gifted from a special person. In some cases, the chipped piece makes it feel even more precious and special, no?

There’s something delightful in allowing Mother Nature to pick the color arrangements and layouts. And although a vase on the dinner table filled with wildflowers isn’t perhaps as elegant or pristine as one from the florist, it has something special about it, something divinely simple and touching that you can’t put your finger on. That’s wabi sabi. 🌼

28/06/2022

How will you spend your day? Look under some rocks!

View the comic strip for Calvin and Hobbes by cartoonist Bill Watterson created June 28, 2022 available on GoComics.com

02/05/2022

All good things are and

01/05/2022

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. Lewis Carroll

11/04/2022

😍❤️ genuinely beautiful.