(Here’s to Tess Marshall for opening my world to LOVE! this month. Tess, you are amazing and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I appreciate you!) How sweet that our RAOKA (random acts of kick arse) posting for August landed on September 1st. September also happens to be my birth month (Sept…
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RAOKA: Trust
July Theme: Trust (chosen by Gayze) Driving or walking in a busy area A visit to the dentist (sharp tools!) Buying an item online (sharing credit card numbers) Banking Living on a fault line (earthquakes!) All of these things I do without much thought. But, wow, think about the trust I implicitly give to others…
RAOKA: Serenity
May Theme: Serenity (chosen by Zeenat) The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines serenity as “the quality or state of being serene.” Another definition of serene, as an adjective: Calm, peaceful, and untroubled; tranquil: her eyes were closed and she looked very serene. Appended to this definition was the “archaic noun” definition: An expanse of clear sky or…
RAOKA: Family
April Theme: Family (chosen by Gayze) I moved away from home when I was seventeen years old in search of a new life and new adventures. What I found, truly, were many ‘families’ over my lifetime shape-shifting into different forms: a platoon neighbors a group of exercise instructors an open-water swim team a laboratory base…
RAOKA: Laughter
March Theme: Laughter (chosen by me) Let’s start with a 30-second giggle, an animated cartoon. (I love these shorts blasts of laughter.) Click on the image below and it will take you to The New Yorker website—come back after you’ve had a laugh! If you’re viewing this via RSS, click here. There’s something about chicken-and-egg…
RAOKA: Passion
February Theme: Passion (chosen by Dani, author of Positively Present ) As this month passed by in a flash, passion was on my mind. As I’ve said in a previous post, what is on our mind makes us see “it” more often in our daily lives. That’s why I love RAOKA so much, it turns…
Random Acts of Kick Arse: Gratitude
This month flowed with gratitude. And when I say flowed, I mean like Niagara Falls! Sami’s awesome RAOKA leadership has resulted in something special for me—almost like a cosmic shift. I have noticed repeatedly in my world that if one looks for something, one will find it. A tangential example: a close friend of mine…
Random Acts of Kick Arse: Wacky
[logo designed by Melissa at Operation Nice] Random Acts of Kick Arse is the brain child of our lovely Sami May of Life, Laughs, and Lemmings. Simply put, each month a randomly selected member of the RAOKA seed group is selected to choose a theme for the month. And at the end of the month,…
Random Acts of Kick Arse: Beauty
[logo designed by Melissa at Operation Nice] Sami from Life, Laughs, and Lemmings gathered a few of us bloggers to join her on a path to try to do something positive we normally wouldn’t do, by focusing each month on a monthly theme. November’s theme was BEAUTY. I’m happy to report that having beauty on…