Music as Muse   Dear Love Pies, So yesterday, Dave suggests that we share music within the tribe. YES! Music is such a gorgeous language, and so wildly inclusive. There are SO many places we could go with this challenge. And I think we’ll delve more into music as the experiment moves forward, but today I’d like you to introduce your soul to the group with a song. Let us see inside YOU, past the surface, to who you really are. Share a youtube video in the comments, and if you can’t figure out how to do that, […]

    Fanning the Flames   Is it hot in here or is it just me? No, it’s really hot in here. ‘Cuz we’ve been fanning the inspiration flames for a couple of weeks now. It’s not surprising the soul’s temperature is rising. When you get excited about something, they say “you’ve got the hots” for it. I got the hots for sharing depth and meaning and friendship. I got the hots for truth, vulnerability and creativity. I got the hots for this tribe. And, because I am a muse, I got the hots for your dream. Not just your […]

  Shine Like a Boss   Whether we realize it or not, we’re all connected. Consciously or unconsciously, we all carry the light inside us, and we’re exchanging and reflecting (and sometimes dimming, sometimes hiding) it with one another. Always. Today I’d like you to consider how you shine. How have you been someone’s lifeboat or ladder? Someone’s firework? It’s easy for us to play games of gratitude and list all we’ve received from mentors, muses, family and friends. It’s harder for us to talk about ourselves: how and when and why were are light bearers who help another, help […]

Stories: A Legacy That magic you felt as a child when you opened your favorite books? That longing stirred up when, as a teenager, you explored new worlds and bold ideas between the pages of a tale? The feeling, even now, when a story opens up a space in you that you felt long ago passed into obscurity? This little 15 minute film captures it all. It is a priceless gem. The pure magic of books. The life-giving essence of story. The authors and voices that came before you, that sit on your shelves, and lay under your pillow, keeping you […]