Dear Pinkies, Please welcome back the one and only Christa, Pink Posse rockstar whose words never cease to amaze and inspire. She's here today with a much needed reminder to slow down and notice the world around us. Enjoy, and thanks so much Christa!
Last night, I was sitting around with a group of friends and we were talking about the secrets to living a joyful, peaceful life (are your ears perking up?) One woman was telling a story about how she has been swimming in the ocean for years, and every time she dives into the Pacific, she wishes it wasn’t cold. Yet, every time she swims, it is cold. Finally, she came to a place of peace, where she no longer wished it was warm. She simply accepted what is. The Pacific is cold- no judgment. No good or bad about it. By accepting it, she quit struggling against the cold, surrendering into it, and just letting it be cold. Suddenly, she found the cold infinitely easier to tolerate. Swimming became joyful.
The first of the winter storms hit Northern California today. The sky opened up and torrents of water poured out of the sky, like a waterfall in the desert. After a long, dry summer, the ground is drinking it in, but not fast enough. The earth is so starved for moisture, it’s as if it’s afraid to drink too fast and wind up drunk. Flooding is inevitable.
One day, our Pinkest of Pink editors, Joy Mazzola, said, "I am not done, but I am not incomplete." Grabbing a magic marker, I wrote it on our Pink wall of graffiti at Ow
Dearest Pinkies, Please welcome Pink Posse member Body Owning Guru Shannon Elsom. Shannon posted this on the Pink Posse blog and it was so fabulous we had to bring it to the main stage.

Cheerio Pinkies, and happy Mojo Monday.
Friday night, I had the pleasure of being present on the birth day of Kim Rosen’s new book Saved By A Poem: The Transformative Power o

I unearthed something most incredible from an old journal today. An artifact from an existence that feels like lifetimes ago, when actually less than a year has passed. On October 6, 2008, I sat in a coffee shop during my lunch break at work and wrote the following in my journal: