The Sublime Passage

“No mirror ever became iron again;

No ripened grape ever became sour fruit;

Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.

Become the light.”

~ Rumi from Rumi: Daylight

The Sublime Passage recently got a makeover! If you read the blog by e-mail or through the RSS feed click here to visit the site and take a quick look-see. (more…)

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
Marianne Williamson
A Return to Love

For months I’ve been working on launching the website for my consulting work. It is still semi-completed.

I originally planned to have it done before I started consulting in January,  but in all the hectic chaos of finishing up the last few months at my job it was impossible to find time.

Then I went away for a month to spend time with my family. My intentions to have it up in the first few weeks after my return had to be temporarily shelved when I returned from vacation to a flooded house and being temporarily homeless.

Another month was dedicated to finding a new place to live and salvaging my stuff.

Then I was moving in and organizing myself.

Then I started working. I was suddenly inundated by new clients and projects and I didn’t have time to work on it.

The past few weeks I’ve worked on it quite a bit, but I’ve been vacillating over design themes and colors and layouts and wording.

Yesterday one of my clients asked me for resume.  I haven’t updated it since the last time I interviewed for a job several years ago.

My heart sank as I pulled up the last version I could find and began to revise it. (more…)

I’m taking a break from the intense work mode I’ve been in the past couple of days to post for an update of goings on in my life.

It is a BEAUTIFUL day on the East Coast day with temperatures in the low 60′s. You know its warm because I just went outside in only two, very thin layers. Come on spring! I am always amazed however, by how little warm weather it takes for people to start springing out tank tops and shorts. It ain’t that warm yet people!

At any rate I had to go outside for fresh air even though I’ve been intently preparing for meeting with one of my new clients tomorrow!  I’m very excited but a tad bit nervous.

As y’all know I am now self-employed as a technology strategist/social media evangelist.  Hmm, still working on exactly how to describe what I do, but those two titles come close.  I get to help non-profits and progressive businesses – people who want to make the world better – use technology to make that happen.  I love PEOPLE, and I get to spend time talking to them, helping them figure things out. Its a little like being a counselor At any rate I’m thrilled because tons of AMAZING projects with some really great organizations are coming my way. (more…)

I’ve been spending the past few weeks settling into my new home in the very cool town of Montclair, NJ. This moves me brings me closer to friends, restaurants, NYC, clients and all other kinds of fabulous things.

My new apartment itself  is the third floor of a beautiful Victorian house. It is a light, bright, airy space with gorgeous vaulted ceilings in the kitchen and bathroom. It was the first place I looked at post-flood, and I loved it instantly.

It is a MUCH smaller space than my 3 -bedroom house in the country, but this is a good thing.  As I worked on salvaging my stuff from the house, I realized a) just how much stuff I had, and b) how little of the space in the house I was actively using  (most of it was just glorified storage space for the aforementioned stuff),  and c) what a tiny percentage of the stuff I truly cared about. (more…)