lili

So..’tell me about yourself’ is a question we’ve all gotten, and most of us dread answering. 

Doesn’t have to be that way. 

Holley Murchison a social entrepreneur, created this free online experience (among other material) to help people learn how to introduce themselves more effectively - and in my opinion more authentically and in a way that feels empowering vs people pleasingy. 

Mary Oliver: Morning Poem

Every morning
the world
is created.
Under the orange

sticks of the sun
the heaped
ashes of the night
turn into leaves again

and fasten themselves to the high branches–
and the ponds appear
like black cloth
on which are painted islands

of summer lilies.
If it is your nature
to be happy
you will swim away along the soft trails

for hours, your imagination
alighting everywhere.
And if your spirit
carries within it

the thorn
that is heavier than lead–
if it’s all you can do
to keep on trudging–

there is still
somewhere deep within you
a beast shouting that the earth
is exactly what it wanted–

each pond with its blazing lilies
is a prayer heard and answered
lavishly,
every morning,

whether or not
you have ever dared to be happy,
whether or not
you have ever dared to pray.

The gift of fantasy over knowledge