Wow, so I just woke up to this beautiful Saturday morning....with a new song idea in my head....and feeling like I'm on the upswing from the cold that I have. Sniffles are never good!!
I've been reading this book....actually re-reading it now and it's a MUST HAVE for women out there! "Cold Tangerines" by Shauna Niequist Basically, it's just a book of honest and real stories from her life (subtitle: Celebrating Everyday Life)....but they are written in a way that make you reflect on your own life stories. The variety of her stories intrigues me....here's one that's interesting....
From the chapter "carrying my own weight"
"I thought that seeing that magic, fabled, dreamt-of number on the scale would turn me into a person who revels in her own skin, who dances in her underwear, who walks into every room fearlessly and shamelessly. I thought that number on the scale would protect me from the vulnerability I had always felt, that it would secure me, once and for all, a place at the cool kids' table at lunch, my very own place in the world of successful, happy, confident people.
What I found, though, is that if you're not chasing one fantasy, you're chasing another. If it's not your body, it's your bank account, and if it's not your bank account, it's your resume or your nose or your boobs or your car or the perfect marriage or the perfect vacation or the perfect child. For two decades, I believed that if I could just get this one thing under control, the the whole of my life would magically bloom like a perfect, lush flower. But to my great dismay, I realized that my life was still my life, and I was still myself, just in smaller pants."
www.shaunaniequist.com If you want to read her blog....or find out more about the book!
Have a great weekend!
