Lucy is the alter ego of Me, Kayce S. Hughlett—life coach, creative muse, speaker and author. She is the boldest part of my voice. Lucy is all that irritates me and a reminder of all that inspires me. She is playful, cynical, carefree, serious, a helper and a loner. She reminds me to get over myself and not take Me so seriously—to put my hair up, don my crown with flowers and just be—glistening and glowing; clear-headed and free; light as the clouds not dark as a thunderhead; playful and joyous not mean and controlling; a cartoon; a caricature; a vision of life; my soul mate; my companion; my friend. She is with me always. She brings me balance. She inspires me to create. She stretches me and makes me laugh. She reminds me where complaining and controlling take me and when it’s time to stop being complacent—to move—to get past myself and don my pigtails or take up my pen. diamonds in the sky is our playground. if you're interested in the more "professional me," check outdiamonds in the soul where i play for pay. you can explore the tools i offer to help you find your own personal "lucy." lucy lives. lucy creates. lucy inspires.
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be." Shel Silverstein
"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." Gloria Steinem
"One moment there had been nothing but darkness; next moment a thousand, thousand points of light leaped out. . . ." C.S. Lewis
"Life is not a path of coincidence, happenstance, and luck, but rather an unexplainable, meticulously charted course for one to touch the lives of others and make a difference in the world." Barbara Dillinham
"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection." Buddha
"If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning. The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living." - Marion Woodman
"All your longings know where to go, but you have to tell them to open their eyes." poet Nick Piombin
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." --Goethe
"Make plans but don't plan results." - Lianne Cordes
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
“We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded in weakness and in hope, called together to change our world one heart at a time.” - Jean Vanier
"See how far the little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." -- Wm Shakespeare
"Simplicity and greatness go together." - Monty Cralley
"Mindfulness is neither difficult nor complex: Remembering to be mindful is the great challenge." - Christina Feldman
"Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place." - Henri Nouwen
"Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery." - Dr. Joyce Brothers
" There are 3 rules to writing a novel, unfortunately, no one knows what they are." - W. Somerset Maughm
"Bathed in morning light, pray that the lantern of your life move gently this day into all those places where light is needed." -- Macrina Wiederkehr (sevensacredpauses)
"May images come to draw things together for you and bloom juiciness within your soul like sweet oranges in winter." - Christine V. Paintner
"I write to discover what I know."--Flannery O'Connor
“feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal…”--Abraham Joshua Heschel
"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed." --Sebastian R.N. Chamfort
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." --Buddah
"There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full of paradox and contradiction. It's only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast." -- Madeliene L'Engle
"To love beauty is to see light." -- Victor Hugo
"The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." --Frederick Buechner (on vocation)
"The winds of grace are blowing all the time, you only have to raise your sail."--Sri Ramakrishna
"Laughter is carbonated holiness." (Plan B)--Anne Lamott
"The Divine Voice is not always expressed in words. It is made known as a heart-consciousness." from God Calling
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."--Mother Teresa
"Without the warming & mellowing that good friendship brings into life, we invariably lose gratitude and joy." --Ronald Rolheiser
"it takes courage to become who you really are." e.e. cummings.
"Come to the edge, He said. They said: we are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them, and they flew..." Guillaume Apollinaire.
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~ James M. Barrie
2011 Reading List
The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler
Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Heaven is for Real - Todd Burpo
Then Again - Diane Keaton
The Greater Journey - David McCullough
Maine - J. Courtney Sullivan
Expecting Adam - Martha Beck
What Alice Forgot - Liane Moriarty
The Saint - Oliver Brody
Just One Thing - Rick Hanson*
The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir about Writing - Ann Patchett
Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light - David Downie*
The Gifts of Imperfection - Brene Brown
What I Wish for You - Patti Digh
French Lessons: A Novel - Ellen Sussman
Cupidity - Caroline Goode
Language of Love - Deborah Reber
Follow Your North Star - Martha Beck
State of Wonder - Ann Patchett
The War of Art - Steve Pressfield
The Astonishing Power of Emotions - Esther & Jerry Hicks
Self-Coaching 101 - Brooke Castillo
Dolphin - Story of a Dreamer - Sergio F. Bambaren
Stories I Only Tell My Friends - Rob Lowe
The Paris Wife - Paula McClain
Stroke of Insight - Jill Bolte Taylor
Leaving the Saints - Martha Beck
Heaven - Lisa Miller
The Four Day Win - Martha Beck*
Hush - Kate White
Healing Trauma - Peter Levine
Loving What Is - Byron Katie
Annabel - Kathleen Winter
Make Miracles in Forty Days - Melody Beattie
Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
Transformational Speaking - Gail Larsen
12 Steps to a Compassionate Life - Karen Armstrong
The Joy Diet - Martha Beck
Finding Your Own North Star - Martha Beck
* in process
2010 Reading List
The Joy Diet - Martha Beck
Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
Steering by Starlight - Martha Beck
Walking the Bible - Bruce Feiler*
Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson
Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
An Altar in the World - Barbara Brown Taylor
Traveling with Pomegranates - Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Taylor Kidd
Wisdom of the Desert - Thomas Merton*
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Stealing Horses - Per Pettersen
Hemlock at Vespers - Peter Tremayne
God is not One - Stephen Prothero
water, wind, earth & fire - Christine V. Paintner
Awakening the Creative Spirit - CV Paintner & B Beckman
7 comments:
OH MY GOSH! How funny is this? Did you see my beach photo yesterday? It will make you giggle.
Great minds and all that! :)
For Lucy,
(after a poem by
Zen Master Dogen)
Though the tracks
of water birds
wash away
they never forget
their way home.
CCR--giggles for sure!!!
kigen--lovely. i am blessed by your presence.
Oh, I just love your words here. The word 'someone' could be changed to 'ourselves' and it would be just as true. you and blisschick! too funny!
hmmbrd--i totally agree with the word exchange. xoxox
Very thoughtful and I'm loving your other commenters as well!
ss--i do have great commenters...you included of course :-) xoxoox
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