Of course the brilliant Tama Kieves of Awakening Artistry is going to love us -- and remind us to love ourselves -- into Valentine's Day. Thanks, Tama!

Valentine's Day is upon us: lingerie, dark chocolate, roses, and a whole lot of chances to feel bad about yourself -- for not swinging from a chandelier with that special someone -- or anyone, and maybe for having three double chins that get more swinging action than you do. But I'm thinking it's time to have Cupid shoot a new kind of arrow through your heart. It's the kind that makes you vow eternal love for yourself, get down on bended knee, and write love poems that barely scratch the surface of how much you appreciate the chance to go through this lifetime, as yourself and none other.

New Year, New Me (or Real Me, Rather)

As the New Year approaches, I can’t help but think that I am not the embodiment of who I truly feel I am. Every year I make the same resolution -- to lose weight. Some years it works, but over time the weight always comes back. This year the change must go deeper, it must be a spiritual journey towards embracing my entire self-the shadows and the light. This year I will own my health!

When I say Posse, you say Party.... are you feelin' it? A while back our community member Pattie encouraged other ladies to write a letter to their younger selves. This suggestion caught on rather quickly and became a great source of creative inspiration for many Pinkies in our community. A newer community member, Bridget Clark decided to join in on the fun!

This weekend I saw the much-anticipated movie based on Elizabeth Gilbert’s best selling book, Eat, Pray, Love. The story is based on Gilbert’s own Pleap of all Pleaps (Pink leap of faith) -- for a year following her divorce she lived first in Italy, then India, and finally in Bali. Her goal was to find herself and learn to live again.

Like many who have read her book, I envied Gilbert for the courage to take this journey -- not just to these foreign countries, but to the foreign land of giving up control and giving into universal love. I loved the book and was eagerly anticipating the film version.