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Monday Morning Rock Out

As we head out to create the future this week, we need to think outside the planetary box. Yes, this week’s Rock Out is dedicated to Mars - and all the other amazing planets in a solar system centered around…

For those of you who know me, the thought that I would be excited about a space mission would be a laugh. But I am. And later this week, I will explain why.

But for now, here is what the Mars project tells me: Anything is possible.

If we can go to Mars - and especially if we can communicate daily with the spacecraft that is sitting there, and give it daily assignments; if we can, from here on earth, tell it to fix its arm, and it does, right then and there - then we can do anything.

Anything is possible.

In a sea of lousy news, where every blip on my news feeds tells me about the next bad thing that has happened, this is possible. We made this possible, our human spirit, our human curiosity, our human potential. I loved this post by Phil Plait via Huffington Post - if we can do this, we can do anything!

So get out there this week and grab onto what’s possible. And don’t let go until you are done!!

Have a great Monday and a great week!

Monday Morning Rock Out!

It’s Monday! And for those of us heading out to create the future of our communities, we may need a bit of a boost - something to remind us that every single day, we have the chance to do amazing things.

It is such fun to think that tomorrow, he will put on another clean pair of shoes and go find other parts of the world to see. And so inspiring to think that we can do the same!

But that is not why this song has been stuck in my head for weeks now. And it’s not because the chorus is so catchy, which it is.

It is instead a single line of that chorus that makes me stop each time I hear it.

“And when all’s been said and done,
The things that are given -
not won -
are the things that you’ve earned.”

Just typing those words makes me smile. It is not the things we battle to achieve that mark our success. It is the gifts we are given from the heart - unsolicited, unprompted - those are the things we have earned.

Wow.

I cannot fathom that I have done something to earn all I am blessed with. Every time I hear that single line of lyrics, it makes me simultaneously smile and weep at all the many gifts I am given, every day.

I hope this week finds you equally blessed, as you head out to see your own part of the world.

Have a great Monday and a great week, all!

(If you are new to the Monday Morning Rock Out, you can find previous Rock Outs here - enjoy!)

Monday Morning Rock Out!

It’s Monday - time to take a moment to prepare for the week ahead. And what a week it will be if you are creating the future of your community!

Before we can head out and kick butt this week, though, we need to take a deep breath and just stop. Stop and take notice. Stop and prepare. Stop and smell the flowers. Or perhaps just stop!

 

If ever you doubt the power we have individually and collectively, Improv Everywhere will remind you that we do indeed have such power.

And if there was ever a doubt that the arts are simply the expression of the human spirit, just watch the effect of seeing musical theater in a mall Food Court. Or the reaction to a public display in a store window. Or yes, watch as the entirety of Grand Central Station erupts in applause.

We humans need to express who we are, and we need to share that. That is what the arts are all about. The arts heal us. They make us whole.

Tell that to the next person who thinks funding for the arts is a “luxury!”

Thanks to Elizabeth Sadlon for sending this video, so we can all start the week with such fun. I hope you will all head out today and thank an artist for making life more livable.

Have a great Monday and a great week, all!

(If you are new to the Monday Morning Rock Out, you can find previous Rock Outs here - enjoy!)