Yes You Can Adventures

05/19/2019

Never under estimate the power of a planted seed.

04/24/2019

04/10/2019

The day the circus came to town.

04/04/2019

What do you find ?

03/30/2019

Thinking of spring and growing things puts a bounce in my step and a song in my heart. Every morning it's soooo much fun to wander outside hunting for the next living/ growing example of life emerging onto the scene vibrating with the joy of becoming more.⁣
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Find these morning moments of anticipation, surprise and delight every day

03/28/2019

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Make music a daily habit. It's one of the fastest ways I've found to support the mindset of living every day like a vacation. ⁣
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Music has so much power to both set a scene and then transport us there where we are able to imagine and to FEEL an experience. Even better if it's loud or live music where the notes vibrate through our sense of touch. Think about the movies. It's the music that helps us bridge the connection between images on a screen to our own emotional experience. ⁣
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Music is also a way to link both past (memory) and future (our perception and expectation of how a scene unfolds or plays out) to our present moment by pulling in smells, activities, foods, the environment/places, people and mood we either had or expect to experience. ⁣
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I'll never forget the magic I felt one sultry night in Puerto Rico when the air practically drapped itself like a cloak around me and my (soon to be husband) and we swayed gently, arm in arm to the jazz music spilling out an open window. It was one of those times when in the middle of the experience I recognized it as "a moment". I had just enough ability to step back, observe and acknowledge pure joy. Now, whenever I listen to Stan Getz (and most jazz music), my body is able to find the peace and love I experienced in a friend's quiet yard. I can still smell the salty air and see moon beams dancing though our hair.⁣
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Do yourself a favor and intentionally find music that makes you feel good. ⁣
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If I put on a little reggae, I can picture myself napping in a hammock, sipping a cold drink at the beach or feel the gentle kiss of a warm breeze flow through my hair.⁣
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When I switch to bluegrass, I can feel my heart rising in joy to the exhiliration of dancing & laughing, round and round. ⁣
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Music is such an easy way to experience the feelings of a vacation every. single. day.⁣
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This photo is such a great memory when the best gift I ever received (a vacation✔to a tropical location✔ to see my favorite band ✔*best husband ever*✔) converged with amazing new friends entering my life✔ all wrapped together in dancing and music. ⁣
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Where does music take you?

03/22/2019

There is a little bit of paradise built into every day. The trick is to find it. ⁣
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Lately my favorite mindset practice has been finding little ways to feel like I'm on vacation. Every. Single. Day.⁣
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It's important to reflect on the little moments of fun, the playful attitude and simple indulgences we allow ourselves while on vacation. For me, vacation = freedom. It's freedom to try new things: experiences, places, foods, friends, adventures, you name it. If it's something that peaks my interest, I'm game to try. ⁣
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It is also freedom to do the things I love, regardless of the "buts". When I'm on vacation I suspend the "but it costs to much money, but it's scary, but it's hard, but I don't know how, but who will do it with me, but it's so much effort to figure it out/ plan it, but it's...... I tend to look at vacation as permission to do the things I otherwise wouldn't, shouldn't, couldn't because "it's vacation" and when else are you going to go all in. That particular opportunity to be in that particular place at that particular time will never come again. ⁣
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Treating at least one moment of every day like vacation brings magic to our daily routines and experiences. I'm having so much more fun, and of course

03/20/2019

JOY: gladness not based on circumstance (like the weather in New England, especially in March).

02/18/2019

Imagination isn't just for kids and fairytales.

02/14/2019

Get your happy on because .

02/13/2019

We all move down the road called life however the verb is up to you. It's so much more fun to SKIP, SAUNTER (and of course PLAY with your dog).

On the days you find yourself TRUDGING, PLODDING along or even STALLING out, remember that real physical movement like DANCING, JOGGING, HIKING or just plain old ROMPING in the snow can change your mood & mindset. Life is meant to be fun. Get out and play!

02/13/2019

Take the highway to the great divide.

02/11/2019

Always make time to play. It is the most important thing you do each day.

02/10/2019

Paradise has never been about places. It exists in moments. In connection. It flashes across time -V.E.

Although.... for me it sure is easier to find it in live music, when I ski, when the wind whips my hair blowing my soul free, and of course in 80 degrees underneath palm trees.

Paradise: Boston>Mexico

02/05/2019

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality - Lewis Carroll

02/01/2019

Live for the moments you can't put into words. Like a watery winter sun highlighting the fresh promise of fun that awaits a new day.

01/30/2019

Best sign ever! Adventures to flea markets make me happy. There are so many stories hiding in pre-loved things. I wonder what shenanigans the people who owned these license plates got up to. Where did they travel to and what type of adventures did they plan? What fun places did they visit and who did they play with? How about you... what stories could your car tell about you?

01/16/2019

We all have stories and we get to choose the ones we tell. A joyfilled and playful life is about creating stories worth telling.⁣
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For me, I love adventures to old places. Before heading out I tend to start with a bit of research (aka someone else's story... even if it's an accepted "scholarly" version) and then decide which bits I like best to create my own about people long gone.⁣
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Did you know that New England is full of ancient places and forgotten stone structures that no one really knows much about? Many are oriented to the stars and planets. America's Stonehenge in New Hampshire has standing stones, underground chambers and a sacrifical alter. Who were these mysterious people? ⁣
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I'm looking forward to visiting ancient Mayan ruins with my husband, who just so happens to be an amazing Storyteller type. He makes people watching into a theatrical event and brings history adventures alive. Storytellers are so fun to play with. ⁣
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What is your story?

01/14/2019

I throw wishes into the night and watch with delight what unfolds and uncurls. ⁣
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On this particular night as the dancers flew up like kites, I learned what space smells like.

01/14/2019

20's and other theme parties are a fun and easy way for us adults to "play dress up". ⁣
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Did you know that one of the defining characteristics of self made billionaires is empathetic imagination? In a nutshell it means the ability to step into someone else's life (with all of their unique beliefs, hopes, dreams, values and fears) in order to truly understand their wants and needs.
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Dress up is a powerful way to see the world through another's eyes and literally "try on" their perspective.

01/11/2019

🎶It's the only thing that there's... just to little of 🎶. Happy Friday!

01/10/2019

Waiting for the snow to fall and cover us all. I'll never outgrow the excitement of looking out my window to see a glittered blanket of white offering an invitation of winter magic. I'm longing for fields of diamonds glistening on frozen meadows- a perfect day to snowshoe. Come on New England... time for a good wallop of the white stuff.

01/09/2019

Bowling is how I roll. It's basically an hour or two of jolly socializing and drinking occasinally interrupted by six seconds of exercise (which often includes high fives, fist pumps and whoops of victory). Life can be so much fun. Get out and play!

01/08/2019

There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them, losing yourself in the music to find the moment when all else disappears. You might as well enjoy yourself and dance like no one is watching. Because they're not. They're either on their phones or already feeling the magic. ⁣
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I'm not an amazing or talented dancer. I've never taken formal dance lessons (unless you count a brief stint of zumba classes at the gym). I don't have any natural talent and I would hardly call myself athletic. I dance just for me. For how good it feels both in my body and my soul. I dance because it's a path to joy. And fun is so much fun.

01/05/2019

Meditation, music, dancing, traversing unfamiliar streets and waltzing through wild natural spaces are the most powerful forms of play that allow me to plug into the infinite... the space beyond time that flows with unfiltered, unfettered joy.

01/04/2019

Cheers!

01/02/2019

Follow your curiosity. It led Alice down the rabbit hole and me to the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum..... both adventures worth having.

12/31/2018

Do it big, do it right, do it with style. - Fred Astaire - Happy New Year! Cheers to the fun and adventures that await in 2019.