Black Cats & Josh Ritter

I’m having a frustrating week where I feel like I’m being continually tested, when I need (pretty please) reminders/signs to trust that it’s all going to be okay.

Instead, while waiting outside for a friend last night, a black cat pranced in front of my path with a dead mouse dangling from its creepy little mouth. WTF, Universe.

Here’s a Tiny Desk Concert by the incredible Josh Ritter, who I saw perform last night on a sun-soaked zoo esplanade. I love summer.

Zoo Tunes

Moon-set at Fremont Peak Park

Choppy waters

You know those days/weeks when you feel like it just ain’t smooth sailing? Like nothing major is going wrong, really, touch wood, but there are lots of minor roadblocks getting you off-track every direction you look? Annoyances and hold-ups that cumulatively create one big pile of cheek-reddening frustration? Yep, well that’s me at present. Argh.

I’m taking a deep breath, closing my computer and going to workout.

Hope your days are flowing along better than mine!

*On a totally different note, I had a FABULOUS birthday weekend in which I was spoiled silly and felt SO abundantly loved, and I will be posting on those (happy!) thoughts soon:)

Channeling weekend Zen

I am taking deep breaths over here after a frustrating morning sprinkled with minor annoyances. (And I am now desperately trying to drown out the shocking “ballpark starting salary” figures being thrown around by the Microsoft employees to my left.) I feel the collective tension pulsing through my hunched shoulders. Time. To. Chill.

Anyway, enough of that. There’s blue sky out there, and it’s weekend. Back to my writing. Happy weekend, everyone! Hope it’s a lovely one.

Take the path that runs along the cliff–that one, the one without any guardrails. Take that path, and know the exhilaration of the ride and the pride you feel when you reach the end will inspire you to take that path again and again. And that experience … every day, will make you more fulfilled, more complete, and more alive.~Harry Beckwith