What Makes You Come Alive?

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs,
ask yourself what makes you come alive.

And then go and do that.

Because what the world needs
is people who have come alive.

-Harold Whitman

What makes me come alive?

• dancing to music from my teenage years
• Bob Dylan lyrics and JD Salinger stories
• being outside, esp. out of earshot of cars and my cellphone
• seeing my kids do funny things



• painting with watercolors, even though I’m no good at it
• discussing how important it is to foster a lifetime love of learning- everything else falls easily into place when you have this
• creation, in all its forms
• technicolor hair- is 32 too old to have purple hair? How about 31 and 10 months?
• collage
• a book. Any book, really. Even the dictionary.
• Holding other people’s babies (that there is my husband; we eventually returned these babies to their rightful parents)



• Movies starring either of the Hepburns
• old radio routines- Abbott & Costello, Fibber McGee & Molly
• making costumes (technically falls under creation, but I really really like making costumes)
• three inch heels
• Doc Marten boots
• group projects
• being with friends



• making lists!

I could go on all day,

but I have a vague sense that I am embarrassing myself.

However, I am now in a super mood!

What makes you come alive?

Tell me all about it!