
ANNE CLOUD
BLOG
Welcoming What Comes
So there’s manifesting, right? The idea that you can tell the universe what you want and it comes to you. Of course, there’s more to it— but kind of...
Fear, Windows, and the People Who Stand at the Door
My six-year-old daughter, Juniper, ebbs and flows with fear. Sometimes she is fine, fiercely independent. Other times, she is scared to be alone,...
Transitions Are Magical
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.
– Lao Tzu
What does it mean to be human?
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Limiting Behavior and My Saviors
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
– George Addair
My $3.6K Mistake
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-Henry Ford
Not Every Itch Needs To Be Scratched
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
– Socrates
Time To Shake Things Up
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
-Albert Schweitzer
Rethinking Self Care
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
-Audre Lorde
Dancing and Pleasure
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Success, Woo-woo, and Creative Dreams
Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or memoir written…
– Anne Lamott
Start a New Advent Tradition Tomorrow
“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
– Lao Tzu