Be a Heart Blog

Etty Hillesum is my first choice for someone who teaches me how to “be a heart” in my new series that I explained earlier here. A few years ago, I read her diary, which I highly recommend. She was born in 1914 in Holland and was Jewish. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 and her diary […]

Through a series of events, and most recently a friend sending me the Ted talk “Start with Why,” I have been pondering why “be a heart.” I look at it all the time, but I’m not sure I really embody it. I struggle to even define what that means. However, my third grade teacher drilled […]

A sweet photo recently found by our cousin, Laura. When we tell people that we are siblings and that we live together we get hilarious reactions. Most people exclaim that they would kill their sibling or their sibling would kill them. And then they think about it a little bit and say, “actually, it would […]

My heart still leaps a bit when I see a gorgeous mid century wood dresser with a planted pot. I just love the way the lines are so clean on the dressers. And I’m thrilled that I get to wake up to one every day. I made a little collection of where I picked up […]

If you learn to stay open at all times, great things will happen to you. You simply have to learn not to close. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself In relation to my post the other day about how I manage my anxiety, I read this book called The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond […]

(me in my natural habitat) Things have been a bit quiet over here on the blog front (in no way a reflection of life slowing down!) I left New York four months ago now and I really believed that since I was doing so well there, I wouldn’t have any problem with a move. Unfortunately […]

Yesterday was the first day of Advent. I remembered a talk that I heard a couple of years ago so I dug out my old notebook. It helps me each year to prepare for Christmas. He said that advent is a time to focus on our being–on our true essence, on the essential. I have […]

It was such a privilege to design the Water Council Dinner to raise money for DigDeep and their Navajo Water Project. The event was held at the Los Angeles Athletic Club last Saturday and we raised a good chunk of money to help brining clean, running water to homes on the Reservation in New Mexico. I loved getting […]

My friend gave me a book last year for my birthday (it will be my birthday again in 3 days. yikes!) and I had it on my bookshelf here in LA. She pulled it out last night while we were cooking dinner and read this poem to me. How had I not noticed the title […]

When I began practicing calligraphy, I struggled to find a concise source of the tools that I needed. I spent so much money on the wrong tools that now just take up space on my desk. At first I started with those calligraphy pens with the square tip, but couldn’t get my writing to look […]

My brother came to visit me in New York in July. It was the first time in years that we got to spend so much time together and we were getting excited because we had plans to move to Los Angeles together in the next month. So many changes and excitement ahead of us. Eventually […]