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Gather Yourselves
Happy New Year to all you Architects of Change. I hope your holidays were a time of joy, gratitude and awe.
A dear friend sent me the following "Message from the Hopi Elders" on the last day of this year. It's one of my favorites and I wanted to share it with you. It hits home every time I read it. In fact, I have a framed copy of it in my office next to Mary Oliver's wonderful poem, The Journey. Both are worth reading as we head into a new year, a new time, and a new journey. This Hopi message contains important questions that many of us already are -- or will be -- asking ourselves as we enter 2012. Think about these questions. Gather within and gather yourselves.
Join the conversation: What are you looking forward to in the New Year? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Where is your water?
Creative Friends
January 12, 2012
Maps to the Treasure: A Story of Alzheimer’s Disease
In May of 2010 I lost my grandmother to complications of Alzheimer ’s disease. Along with the grief I felt watching my grandmother struggle with her memory loss, I also grieved for my mother as I watched her loose her mother to this heart wrenching illness.
Perhaps the most painful grief I felt was watching my own children and my sister’s children slowly...
How I Did It
January 18, 2012
Josie Maran, Founder of Josie Maran Cosmetics
At every critical juncture in my life, there's been someone saying, “There's no way you can do this. You’re too short to be a model. You have no experience to run a company. Industry-quality beauty...
Tips for Transformation
January 27, 2012
Making Sense of Second Chances
“You’ve been given a second chance.”
I heard these words from doctors, family members and friends. My breast cancer diagnosis had turned out to be a rare but benign disease. Despite losing part of my breast and enduring months of antibiotics to fight infection, I was OK. I did not have cancer. That was great news, but I wasn’t sharing the enthusiasm expressed by those around me.
“What does one do with a second chance?” I thought, frustrated. The promise of a new beginning was made with good intention but I had no owner’s manual to guide me as to what to do next. While it seemed that I’d been handed a winning lottery ticket, it felt more like I’d been handed a burden.
Quick Take With…
January 23, 2012
Dr. Susan Love, MD - President, Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation & Author, Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book
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1. What are your three words to live by? Why do these words guide your life?
Better, Why, Try
My parents taught me early that my job was to make the world a better place. I try to apply this standard to everything I undertake. How can I be better? My family says that my answer to everything is why, which is the basis of scientific inquiry but also of relationships. Why is she acting that way? Why do we get breast cancer? Finally, I find too many people just accept the status quo. Why? I think we have to try to make it better! I may not find the cause of breast cancer but it won’t be because I didn’t try!
2. What does being an "architect of change" mean to you?
A Quote to Start the Day
We need to start listening to other people, even if we don’t agree with them—especially if we don’t agree with them.
Gayle King
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January 24, 2012
Lessons I’ve Learned as a Medical Momma
“If she makes it, she’ll probably need a new heart.” As I looked at my cooing little 2-month-old girl, Brooke, I could not wrap my brain around what the cardiologist had just said.
She had a serious, rare heart disease called dilated cardiomyopathy. Brooke had been fussy and spitting up for the past 2 weeks, but she had been so healthy leading up to that point.
At her two-month check up, her pediatrician thought he heard something “funky” when he listened to her heart and had sent us to a pediatric cardiologist, “just to be safe”. June 17, 2009, was the day that forever changed who I am as a mother and as a woman.
After two weeks in the PICU, our sweet Brooke was able to come home on a myriad of medications. Brooke thrived at home. She hit all her developmental milestones and forged an unbreakable bond with her protective big brother, Billy. However, after two years at home, her heart could not continue the fight and she was listed for a heart transplant.
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