Do you ever feel like you need Captain Jack Sparrow’s magic compass?
“My compass…is unique.”
“Unique here having the meaning of broken?”
“True enough, this compass does not point north.”
“…Where does it point?”
“It points to the thing you want most in this world.”
I’ve been learning much lately about peak experiences and how to push the upper limits of happiness. This little ditty came in my inbox today via The Daily Love, and I wanted to repost it here because of all that muchness it reminds us of.
Abraham Maslow’s 8 Ways to Self-Actualize
1. Experience things fully, vividly, selflessly. [...]
A story of desire, and of cute underwear, 5″ heels, manifesting dreams, and striding out in your own brand of sustainable lifestyle design.
Vision boards are common parlance in the visual life of my outer dreamscapes, adhered to the growing pages of my sacred black hard-bound journals, and often posted here. In the last edition [...]
About a month ago, my dearest fiery fairy friend called me out of the blue at twilight on a lovely warm evening and asked: “do you want to go for a walk?” I accepted without hesitation, as I’m always waiting for that sort of request. As with all time with her, it was luminous and [...]
Earlier this week I came across a video about the Mast Brothers – the Brooklyn Chocolatiers – and it won my heart in a big way. I shared this with my favorite people and one friend wrote back: “I love this. I love the bagpipes. I love the beards. Quit your job. Sell your condo. [...]
“Are you barely breathing and calling it a life?” Mary Oliver
We’ve been stepping up our time on the mat here at HQ, where things have been transpiring in the substratum of our beingness as of late, and we’ve been told our handwriting looks like an ancient text. Paired with a good starlit sit on the [...]






