Ideas that Gently Shine

Here's a thought I find encouraging when I seem unable to get anything done. (It's like wading through waist-deep mud, that feeling sometimes.)

"Our idea that we must always be energetic and active is all wrong." Too much mad dashing around, writes Brenda Ueland, "and presently your soul gets frightfully sterile and dry because you are so quick, snappy and efficient about doing one thing after another that you have not time for your own ideas to come in and deveop and gently shine."

I love that gentle shining.

Peggy

Guilt, Revolution

Today is an especially auspicious one for leaping into something important. It's Bastille Day, the French holiday that commemorates the revolution that overthrew the monarchy in that country about 20 years after our own American Revolution.

I woke up this morning feeling oddly guilty from staking myself out pretty boldly yesterday. I'd told the people who are contracting with me to write a new edition of my book DONCASTER: A LEGACY OF PERSONAL STYLE that I felt "ordained" to do this work. Sounds pretty lofty, doesn't it? Well-- I do feel that way. So what's to feel bad about?

Have a wonderful, exciting, and bold Bastille Day.

Peggy