This is Day 70 of the Positive 100, a countdown to Rare Disease Day 2014 and an exercise in being positive despite it all.
When someone has a successful career, we say it was storied. Full of promise, full of action. All our lives are storied. It doesn’t matter how big or small you live. If you live wide or you live deep. We all have stories. We all live stories. We are all stories.
This is Day 69 of the Positive 100, a countdown to Rare Disease Day 2014 and an exercise in being positive despite it all.
Nourishing is a bit more than simply providing food to eat. It is an action with a hopeful outcome: a full stomach and an enriched spirit.
This is Day 68 of the Positive 100, a countdown to Rare Disease Day 2014 and an exercise in being positive despite it all.
People use all sorts of metaphors to describe hard times. We talk about battles. We talk about getting through to the other side. And even things being sunshine and daisies. Let’s throw storms into that mix of metaphors, without making a trite statement about the turbulent patches we all go through.
When I first started this project, one of the posters I did said, “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
This is Day 67 of the Positive 100, a countdown to Rare Disease Day 2014 and an exercise in being positive despite it all.
The notion of beginning is a romantic one. The idea of a fresh start or new life is filled with hope and possibility. It’s what drives us to create new year’s resolutions or that little bit of joy that a new notebook and its unmarked pages can give us.
It is important to remember that new beginnings don’t have to be moments of ceremony. The year doesn’t need to change. The sun doesn’t need to rise. You don’t need to be a year older. It doesn’t have to take major news. A beginning is simply a moment in which you decide to make a change or start something.
This is Day 66 of the Positive 100, a countdown to Rare Disease Day 2014 and an exercise in being positive despite it all.
Ah, what if. I often find myself wondering about the what might have been. What if I never got in that car accident? Would I have tried running to get in shape? Would I have injured the knee? Would I have developed CRPS?
This is Day 65 of the Positive 100, a countdown to Rare Disease Day 2014 and an exercise in being positive despite it all.
Desire. It can refer to people and emotions or things. And for the most part it is a good thing. When you desire something, you can work towards having it. Maybe that means saving up for new shoes or putting money in a jar for a dream vacation. Maybe it is finally telling someone how you feel. Desire can bring out the best in us. And indulging those desires can be sweet.
This is Day 64 of the Positive 100, a countdown to Rare Disease Day 2014 and an exercise in being positive despite it all.
There are so very many kinds of freedom. There are the political and religious freedoms that this country was found upon. There is freedom from regret and second guesses. There is freedom to create and the freedom that you feel as you step into a city bursting with energy. There is the freedom that the truth will give you and freedom from fear.
These freedoms need to be celebrated.
This is Day 63 of the Positive 100, a countdown to Rare Disease Day 2014 and an exercise in being positive despite it all.
Hugs lasting 20 seconds have been proven to improve your mood and happiness because they trigger the release of certain hormones. Hugs are a universal show of support and they can almost always make you feel better, even if they come from your teddy bear.
This is Day 62 of the Positive 100, a countdown to Rare Disease Day 2014 and an exercise in being positive despite it all.
We all need to dance more. To celebrate the ways our bodies move. Dancing makes you feel alive, even if you have no rhythm. You can act like a fool in a room by yourself or shake it with your girls in the club. It doesn’t matter. You can dance a waltz or do the lawn mower.
This is Day 61 of the Positive 100, a countdown to Rare Disease Day 2014 and an exercise in being positive despite it all.
Have you seen the statistics quoted in this poster? “If you have food in your fridge, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of the world. If you have money in your bank, your wallet, and some spare change, you are among 8% of the world’s wealthy. If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million people who will not survive this week. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the agony of imprisonment or torture or the horrible pangs of starvation, you are luckier than 500 million people alive and suffering. If you can read this message, you are more fortunate than 3 billion people in the world who cannot read at all.” (and if you know the original source, please let me know! I can’t seem to find it!).