I can’t hardly wait!

Ooh! The Design Within Reach 2008 catalog is coming soon. If you love classic modern design (I grew up with Danish modern) like me, this book is a delight to browse through and full of groovy ideas.

Things that Changed My Life Forever (in a good way)

These are people, ideas, and things that changed my life in a positive way. I could never be the same person I was before after I was exposed to them:

• What Color is Your Parachute? I first read this book when I was 22 and fresh out of college with barely a clue about what I could do to get a job. I never again, ever looked at job seeking and careers the same way. It enabled me to flip the whole “job seeker as unwanted supplicant” to job seeker as valuable solution to employers problems.
• 12 Step Program. Changed the way I viewed God from an abstract something or other that couldn’t care less about me to an always available unconditionally loving presence. Made me someone capable of getting married and being a mom.
• More soon

Things that Inspire Me

I’m working on some ideas around what inspires and energizes me. I figure it would be good to do more of these things!

• Making a referral: connecting someone with someone or something else that might help them move forward
• Writing
• A good conversation with a smart, talented person
• Watching my cats do their cat things
• Learning a practical, relevant, and out of the box way to make my life better
• Great graphic design
• Great, well made products that make my life better and add beauty