Today is my birthday.
I love birthdays.  Birthdays are like your own personal New Years Day.  Taking account, looking forward and back, along with a little shopping, a steak and a Manhattan.

The pic is of me and my siblings.  I’m thinking circa 1980.  Not exactly sure of the date but it was definitely when we spent our summers entirely outside and usually swimming on a lake in Wisconsin.

Looks like we’re building a floatilla.   There is a high probability one of us is wearing a lanyard bracelet made by the other.  Fresca and 7-Up (the un-cola) are sitting on the pier heating up in the sun to what will be beyond drinking temperature but we will still enjoy, the carbonation seems more intense when your soda is near boiling.  There is most definitely a Camp Un-ah-li-ya (the place of friends) t-shirt getting soaked with lake water on one of our 70’s era lawn chairs.  There will be water skiing later that afternoon.  Right after we eat our huge lunch our mom or grandma will make for us, including jello.  Cribbage, badminton, croquet outside all day.

I love the  saturated colors and blurred lines from these older pics.  And I like that we’re not posing, just completely in our element, playing around with all the time in the world.  When we get together now it still feels the same.

Tina Roth Eisenberg’s list of Rules to Live By from the video posted yesterday.  All good things to think about to keep you inspired, supported and on track.
You can check her out at www.swiss-miss.com

Amazing things happen when you put the importance of being creative and getting experience in front of making money.

You find more people looking to be creative and get experience who find that more important than making money.  Communities based on creative collaboration are built, we feel more connected to each other and the world around us.  We inspire ourselves and each other to follow up on the potential we all have to create something beautiful and worthwhile.

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Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with.

And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes.

And the changes are what you become.

Change the outcome by changing your circle.

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Tina Roth Eisenberg AKA Swiss Miss is a Brooklyn based designer and blogger and was the keynote speaker @ SXSW this year (someday I will get there).  She has a great story, super inspiring for those of us trying to follow our hearts and minds to make our contribution to the world.  She uses the above quote by Seth Godin in her speech.  Watch the whole thing…you will be inspired.  She’s wonderful.

Thanks to Patrick Riley for the link to yet another a great mind.

Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.

Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. 

Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. 

Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.

(It’s true Yoko. Thanks)