Gail Blanke's Blog – January 2013 Archive (4)

WE ARE MADE FOR THIS MOMENT...

I love these lines from President Obama’s Inaugural Address:

"America's possibilities are limitless; we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive, diversity and openness, an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment and we will seize…

HERE COMES TROUBLE...

That's what they used to say about me when I was a very little girl and walked into just about any room of adults. I'm not sure why, maybe like most little kids, I had a point of view, was a bit obstreperous (I threw myself down in the middle of a room once and kicked my feet because I'd seen some child star do it in a movie - and just wanted to try it out...) and had a habit of interrupting the conversation with my own…

FREE TO BE YOU, FREE TO BE ME...

Well, this is definitely where the rubber meets the road. This is the moment - the dawn of a brand new, fresh, clean,…

WHAT TO BRING, WHAT TO LEAVE BEHIND…

The question of what to bring with us into the New Year - into the future, into the next great segment of our lives - and what to leave behind is not a frivolous one. Nor are the answers necessarily obvious or even easy. We’ve just wrapped up a ten day sojourn at our old farm house in Connecticut and as I packed up to go back to NYC, I realized how much stuff I’d brought with me. I mean,…