By: Stella Orange
Happy New Year!
Geez, I’m not sure where to begin.
Perhaps with this: over the break, I (Stella) took to sleeping in like a slugabed.
Then I’d get up, make some coffee, and do whatever I felt like.
Several new pleasures emerged:
I moved a chair into our dining room bay window, so I could gaze out at our fallow garden beds, now covered in straw and fall compost, or turn my chin to watch the fire in the fireplace.
I took to twitter, and indulged in the rabbit trails made of my curiosity and hypertext links.
I started watching an indefensibly wonderful British reality show, Love Island. (At first, I did it ironically, but real talk? By episode 10 my cheeks were wet, after one couple — with the lady with the lip and boob job – made up after a fight. I was genuinely moved).
Let us not underestimate the decadence of forbidden delights.
Not only are they decadent.
They are restorative!
This confirms my suspicion that our medicine is all around us.
And it can appear in the most unlikely of vessels.
WRITING PROMPTS
What are your forbidden delights?
What new pleasures have you recently discovered?
When was the last time you broke one of your own rules?
Stephanie Saline (a.k.a Stella Orange) is a Business Advisor with 15 years of experience activating and supporting business owners and teams from a wide range of industries as they live into their bigger future. She was originally trained as a teacher in the traditional classroom model who “left the walls behind” to become an experiential educator and outdoor adventure guide. She’s at her best in conversations that have this same sense of freedom, aliveness, curiosity, and adventure – even and especially when they’re about business.
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