Passionate Theme of the Day: Powering Thru

"You don’t have to be PERFECT, to create a perfectly luscious life.” Kammie K.
“Be yourself. Anyway that you want to. Just be yourself, anyway that you can.” Morcheeba
“Celebrate the malleable reality.” Jason Mraz

So I got tagged by the Facebook meme and got a bit carried away with this. I took it as an opportunity to use it as a writing exercise since I’ve had a bit of the writers block. I received such positive feedback from posting this on Facebook, I thought I’d go ahead and share it here as well. If you gain an iota of inspiration from even one of these, I’ll feel happy for having put it out here. (If you don’t feel compelled to dive in...no worries!) Buckle up!

Passionate Theme of the Day: Uniqueness

"Work your quirk.” Kammie K.
“As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.” Robert H. Schuller
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” Dr. Suess

Not sure why this little nugget of a story is sticking in my head, but perhaps by bringing it out into the light of blog I’ll exorcise it from my mind. So right beofre the holidays I tagged along with a couple of local peeps to The Coach House in Scottsdale. A divey little waterhole that is apparently a Scottsdale staple. A good time was had by all and on the way out I stopped in the bathroom.

Passionate Theme of the Day: Lighting a Fire Under My Ass (and Yours)

"Creativity means believing you have greatness.” ~Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”~ Dr. Seuss
“If you didn’t have to be PERFECT, who might you be?” Kammie K.

Last week I finally succumbed to the siren call of the Twitter. (or as @Scobleizer said today “Twitter is like crack cocaine with benefits.” All of my old bloggy buds were doing it. All the big dog blogs were doing it. So I figured it was time for the Kam to get in on the conversation. And a beautiful thing happened. It was as if I hadn’t been outta the game!

Passionate Theme of the Day: Greater Good

"The world is my country, and to do good my religion."~Thomas Paine
“Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so."~Robert Ingersoll
“Many persons have no idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."~Helen Keller

This is gonna sound weird considering I work in the field of marketing communications - but the media is bullshit. We’re hand fed these lies that our world is unsafe, heartless, and violent. The spotlight shines brightest on the bloody, the booty and the scandalous. We’re bombarded with messages about political, business and religious corruption. 

Passionate Theme of the Day: Flirtatiousness
PMP Song of the Day: Only Human – Jason Mraz

“Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” ~Marion C. Garretty

“To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.” ~John Lubbock

“There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed.” ~Alan Loy McGinnis

It’s my first summer in “The Valley” (as Phoenician’s commonly refer to the PHX) and yes, it’s a scorcher. But as cliché as it sounds, it really is a dry heat. Being from STL and having spent a couple of years in Dallas, I’m used to summers with high humidity. But the desert heat…it’s a different kinda hot. 

Passionate Theme of the Day: Grace & Grit & Goodness

“Who said anything about church? You can go to temple, go to a mosque, heck, Grace – go sit in a dang tree if that’ll get you closer to God.”
Grace and Earl in Bring It On Earl

“Granted, he chews tobacco and likes disco, but you’ve entered into the divine, Grace.”
Rhetta in Bring It On Earl

“I’m just Fed Ex trying to deliver a message.” ~ Earl the angel on TNT’s Saving Grace

Where to begin this random tangent? Last night (I actually happened to be home and the TV was on, which is rare with my new job as I’m usually attending some networking event) and caught the season two premiere of TNT’s Saving Grace. 

Passionate Theme of the Day: Pretty Little Mistakes

“A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.” ~James Joyce

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” ~Albert Einstein

“I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.”~ John Peel

Mistakes. That’s the PMP topic of choice today. What the hell is a mistake anyway? A quick Google search finds this little ditty of a definition: “A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention”. 

Passionate Theme of the Day: Hottness

“Music is what feelings sound like.” Anonymous

“...and dance is what it looks like.” – Kammie K.

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” Vincent van Gogh

Due to the consistent (and increasingly less gentle) persuasion of my friend, former student and fellow blogger, Lane over at The Road Through Life… I am officially ending my blogging hiatus. Thank you Lane, I am forever indebted to you for getting my train back on its bloggy tracks (and reminding me that my final post says I’m preggers with JJ Abrams baby…I’m sure his PR peeps are sick of seeing that post come up in his Google searches).

Passionate Theme of the Day: Pregnant with Possibilites

“The final mystery is oneself.”~Oscar Wilde

“Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don’t let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.”~R.I. Fitzhenry

“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."~Eden Phillpotts

Inspiration is a funny thing. You can seek it out. But it often eludes you. Chase it and it runs from you. It becomes a game of cat and mouse. Sometimes you just gotta simmer for a while. Read books of a different genres (Candy Girl author Diablo Cody knows how to tease, titillate and spin a yarn - I’m also finishing Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership by Joseph Jaworski as well as Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth - interesting mix, eh?).

Passionate Theme of the Day: Linky-Lovey-Love

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
Mozart

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
Unknown

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
Mother Teresa

Happy Valentines Day passionate friends!

I know it’s been awhile since I’ve written, but as I’ve mentioned before, my mind is full of ideas and creations around my book. I’m not ready to share the title quite yet, but I’ll tease you with the initials. DLMP…that’s my baby’s secret code name for now. And as soon as I launch the blog that goes with it, you’ll be the first to know.