Yes! And there is power in that!

Dear Santa… 🙂

“My mother didn’t enjoy a fight but she was really good at them.”

Beautiful and brief narrative of Dr. Alice Stewart and her investigation into the effects of radiation on health. Heffernan uses Dr. Stewart’s struggle and success to emphasize the need to seek difference to better understand ourselves and our work. As she suggests, by daring to deeply disagree with others, you boost organizational creativity and insight. Care about the work you do and have the moral courage to question authority and insert your voice and ideas into the dialogue. What you think matters.

Great hair.

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”

~ Ted Hughes

“…make an effort to nurture professional relationships on an ongoing basis—not just when you need something. Not only are people more likely to engage with you if they see your relationship as being mutually beneficial, it’s also just good karma.” ~ Otegha Uwagba

via 4 Insights From A New Network for Women Creatives

My good friend and I traveled to Saltspring Island this past weekend to camp and climb. Two mountains in two days! Mt. Erskine (*****) and Mt. Maxwell (***). Erskine is magical. Honestly. Fairy doors and a crazy exposed ascent where I continually repeated, “There’s no room for error. You realize this?” The trail had it all though. Everything. Definite 5 star. Maxwell is a great workout (take #4 then branch to #6 for a decent loop). Views were amazing. Camped on Ruckle. Beautiful beach. Very Happy Place!

sometimes
you have to self-destruct
in order to self-discover
and understand
that the only person you have
to learn to let go…
is you.

~ r.m. drake

via @designcrush

Love her but leave her wild. ~ Atticus