"One BIG Special Occasion" Weekly Wisdom

Everyday we are alive is a special occasion. There is no reason to not treat each day this way. Use the fancy soap and nice towels, wear the cute undies and your favorite top.  Eat real ice cream. Text your family and friends out of the blue and share with them your favorite thing about them, followed up with an "I love you" if you are feeling it.  That thing you have always wanted to do or a place you want to visit, go do it or at least schedule it so you have a date planned. If there is a book you have always wanted to read, head to the library and check it out. If there is something in your 300 open tabs that you intend to come back to, guess what?  It's time. Buy your favorite gum and stop by the coffee shop you really love. If there is a conversation you want to have with someone and you haven't forgotten about it, it is time to make that happen. If there is a recipe you have always wanted to cook, why not do it this week? 

We spend too much of our lives living in the "IF" and "WHEN" space. 

I love having a glass of champagne with a banana and right now seems like the perfect time to celebrate being alive. 

#Inputs | #EmbraceTheHellYeah

AE

 

"Celebrate Others" Weekly Wisdom

    I love to celebrate others. It brings me so much joy to cheer people on, wish them happy birthdays, see people I admire and look up to doing great things. I love seeing other shine in the spotlight. It makes me proud to know them or know of them. I do not feel jealous, anxious or down about anything I am doing in my when other people succeed. It only gets me excited to the possibilities out there for anyone and everyone. How exciting is that? 

But I have only felt this way for the past 10 years. I was not this person before. It would be hard for me to watch others succeed, I would be anxious and get down on myself for being in the place I was. I felt behind or felt being left behind. Until one human showed me a different way.  After meeting him, I realized there is room for everyone to achieve whatever greatness means in their life. We always achieve more together than we do apart, even if it is from afar. 

Today, I am cheering this human on. Not only is it his birthday week but he is doing great things no matter who is watching or who is cheering him on because he loves to do it. I am so proud to know him and he deserves to be celebrated. 

Watch The Gemini perform HERE and celebrate him with me. 

#Inputs | #EmbraceTheHellYeah

~AE

 

"Life is Art" Weekly Wisdom

 

This past fall, I went on an amazing trip to Italy with my heartbeats. We knew it was going to be a trip full of culture and experiences but I had no idea I was going to get an education in art and architecture. On our trip, we had an expert who was there to help us understand all the amazing things we were going to see. Theresa, a professor and PhD, had the most sincere passion for Italian medieval and Renaissance art and architectural history that her favorite artist, Bernini, makes her cry every time she sees his work. To love something she has studied and has devoted her life to, made me take a hard look at what I am doing in my own life. 

 In college, I took an art/drawing class as an elective to get my mind focused on something else besides science. It is one of my two favorite classes I ever took in college (the other being creative writing which now makes me think I maybe majored in the wrong thing? ) The class was in a beautiful building with amazing warm light and the most zen atmosphere. It was a breath of fresh air to be out of the dark and starchy walls of the endless labs I was in. But what I loved most of all, was learning about art, history and the techniques used in drawing were available to me but it was all me. It was my ability to interpret and create art. I never felt like a failure in that class because the lessons were naturally absorbed resulting in the work being created by me on my own canvas. I believe to this day, I must blend my creative side to balance out my science side. 

In a world where we have so much going on, it’s important to find the open warm spaces, to feel free, to be moved by the beauty around us and to let our creativity flow. Being human, we have many gifts bestowed upon us and we should be open on they can make our world a little more of a creation of our own. 

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~AE