Saying, “Yes,” opens your horizon as well as your heart. “Yes,” is an attitude of courage and openness. “Yes,” is trusting that, by risking yourself and opening to life, amazing things will happen.

Before we zoom over Thanksgiving on our way to Christmas/New Years/Spring Break/Next Summer, I would like to pause to consider the most basic and greatest of gratitudes: the privilege of being here at all.

There are choice points in life, places where one must choose between staying small or becoming something more. The former has a well-defined outcome; the latter, unknown. 

Dragons are the mythological, metaphorical expression of our innermost fears; the sea they inhabit our unknown future.