Guster

What a cool band. 

Playing together for 24 years. 

Still busking around the streets of Boston.

I saw them live when I was in high school.

Then again last week.

Both shows were extremely satisfying.

This time around I appreciated the musical variety.

I counted 20+ instruments used by various band members throughout the show.

Hopefully I can see them again in another 7 years.

Or sooner.

Vulnerability

This month, I'm embracing vulnerability.

"We must have the courage to be imperfect while striving for perfection. We must not allow our own guilt, the feminist books, the talk-show hosts, or the whole media culture to sell us a bill of goods—or rather a bill of nogoods. We can become so sidetracked in our compulsive search for identity and self-esteem that we really believe it can be found in having perfect figures or academic degrees or professional status or even absolute motherly success. Yet, in so searching externally, we can be torn from our true internal, eternal selves. We often worry so much about pleasing and performing for others that we lose our uniqueness—that full and relaxed acceptance of one’s self as a person of worth and individuality. We become so frightened and insecure that we cannot be generous toward the diversity and individuality, and yes, problems, of our neighbors." -Patricia T. Holland