Barefoot Optimist

10/26/2026

Life can be overwhelming.
You may feel stuck or want more from your days… and from your life!! This book might be the helping hand that you need. It’s small but mighty! 🙌 Unstick yourself!

Take 10!: Small steps. Big changes

10/14/2026

Quietly surrendering, but sharing to inspire....

Life recently has me revisiting the art of surrender. There’s a percolation occurring. One that offers varying options for change. Not that I was seeking change at large, but rather we are re…

09/13/2026

Gots me some sadness dwelling....

I woke this morning thinking of the bee I couldn’t save yesterday. Not this one in the photo, but maybe it was him. I’ll never know for sure. He drowned.I found him in the pool and pull…

09/09/2026

“My grandmother knew what a painful life had taught her: success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of payıng attention.”
Thank you for the reminder ❤️ Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

08/25/2026

"Sometimes you have to shake up your physical existence. Put yourself somewhere unfamiliar. Think. Discuss. Debate. Then, get quiet and listen. Feel. Dream. Say yes. Jump.

The messages and signs that flicker across our radar are often blips — small and easily missed. Often, they are the solution to the exact problem we have been carrying, but we have to be still enough to recognize them as such. Pause. Breathe. Release the expectation of what the answer is supposed to look like. And let it appear in whatever form it chooses."

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08/13/2026

This fluffy girl and her attitude…. I’ve loved her vibe since she was born on St Paddy’s Day 12+ years ago!

She loves her brother. Chooses to be near him, but keeps him at a distance ✔️

Cuddles with anyone are on her terms BUT she will quickly concede if snatched up and cuddled like a baby ❤️

She can tell time ⏰

She knows what she wants out of life and tells us. Sometimes it’s very direct and LOUD, other times it’s a gentle paw to the face and occasionally it’s a spicy snarl with a raised paw (but she doesn’t use claws!) 🌶️

She’s a fluffy baby just making her way and trying to stay happy in this big wild world 🐾 (aren’t we all?)

08/10/2026

Sitting with these words today. This Monday showed up and unsettled me as my normally present self is elsewhere…
I’m shook when I want to be stable.
I’m inspired but unfocused.
My weekend left me slightly undone and craving its return.

I’m questioning and re-questioning some recent choices…. Nothing bad. Nothing remorseful. Just questioning for deeper understanding.

Just sitting with it all and allowing it to percolate and pass, eventually. Meanwhile, there’s a yoga mat waiting for me and reflexology studio to ponder. Opening in three weeks!

07/30/2026

If you don’t make time for your wellness you will be forced to make time for your illness. Read that again!!

06/25/2026

A co-worker just said via email "It was a pleasure meeting you yesterday. Your enthusiasm is contagious!" What a treat to be reminded that I STILL GOT IT! 🥰

Do you?

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06/08/2026

Does anyone feel like this?
"Germany polished me in ways I am still discovering. It is nearly impossible to take yourself too seriously when the grammar feels backwards in your brain, the customs make little sense, and you spend your days physically running into people because you've spent your whole life existing on the opposite side of everything, hallway, sidewalk, shopping aisle, road. I think it was there that I developed my deep and abiding love for communication mishaps, the kind that are nobody's fault and everybody's problem. Even now, back in the States, I find obvious misunderstandings absolutely hilarious in a way that other Americans rarely seem to. Perhaps my years abroad broke something in my American communication language. If so, I have never once wanted it repaired."

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