L: What sort of Cleveland activities should we do while we’re home?
F: I would like to go to the Christmas market with you, take Al tobogganing, make Suz’s Christmas cookies with the kids, spend time with babies and old people, hang with you and Mom, see my friends, watch the Cleveland orchestra. That is just the tip of the iceberg.
L: Do you have any words of wisdom for me?
F: Trust in yourself and do what’s right. I think the is the only advice that you need.
L: What’s your favorite Christmas song? Movie?
F: Home Alone is by far my favorite Christmas movie. Let’s watch it! The soundtrack is also my favorite.
L: If you could take a tourist trip to outer space, would you?
F: I would be so scared and probably act like I was going to die and say my final goodbyes to everyone I loved, but I would do it. I wouldn’t seek it out, but if it was given to me I would go. If I had kids, I wouldn’t.
L: What do you consider your greatest accomplishment over the last little bit of time?
F: Well traveling around the world with Albert was really something special but here is a small list:
Getting up on a surfboard
Having my peach pie recipe published in Clean Eats
Living in California
Being able to completely support our lives out here.
1.) Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls at the Party (via Amy Smart Girls) is an awesome site about learning to be a better member of the community while laughing. -Farrell
2.) Infographic: Your Obsession with “Serial” (via Fast Company) – Visualized had my friends and I cracking up. Particularly the “Tweets About Serial” Chart. “It’s an Ad for Best Buy!” -Lauren
3.) Mr. & Mrs. Globetrot are a couple I have been following for years. Their pictures of Peru completely take me back to that wonderful country. –Farrell
4.) What You’re Feeling Is Between You and You (via Julia Cowell) is an interesting read on tapping into your body’s physiological experiences in your relationships with others. I became familiar with Julia Cowell from this interview, “Relationship Is a Skill.” I think anyone could benefit from listening to this. -Lauren
5.) Tony Robbin’s TED Talk(via TED.com) “Why We Do What We Do” is always a good reminder. –Farrell
Last week I went to a pre-work morning dance party. Thanks to a little push from my friends, I woke up at 6am and headed to a bar to drink coffee and dance until it was time for work. I had no idea what to expect but I was more than pleasantly surprised. Daybreaker is a movement that started in San Francisco and has spread to almost 10 other major cities such as Tel Aviv, Amsterdam, Atlanta and Toyko. It’s intention is for you to start your day off right by dancing! I think that I actually had more fun than I would have if I went to a bar at 10pm on a Friday night. I think most of that was due to the fact that I was there to dance and it was just so early. Normally I would have worked out in the morning, but this was such a different high. People were drinking juice and coffee and just breaking it down the entire time. If you live in any of the cities where they host this morning dance party, I recommend that you go. Bring your friends and dance it out.
6) Daybreaker is an early morning, weekday dance party that I partook in yesterday morning at 6:30am and it was SO fun. I recommend to anyone to go! –Farrell
The week after Suz died I remembered feeling an acute sense of the importance of art. There was something about someone’s life ending that really made me think about what is significant to do while we are here on Earth. Self expression came to mind, which then to me became art. This may sound heavy, or whimsical, but we are human beings having a human experience and there are times when it can be profound, frustrating, beautiful, enlightening, suffocating, etc. I don’t think any form of self expression is ever wasted. When I was younger, I secretly thought of myself as a poet. I sat in my room for years writing poem after poem. Of course at the time my poems seemed on the verge of award winning but looking back they are full of angst and confusion. I was feeling so much at the time that I needed to do something with those emotions, so I just scribbled words on page.
I don’t care what ways you choose to express yourself, whether it be through dance, jokes, fashion, speeches, writing, jumping – whatever it is that makes you feel free for just one second – do it. Those moments are not wasted. Somewhere those moments will last forever and you will leave an imprint.
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