Anna Quindlen, you are just too darn cool.

um...wow...talking about something that really speaks to the heart! amazing words!

thank you so much for sharing this, ali!
wow--she certainly said it all.
i am going to share this with so many people.
love it.
you are always such an inspiration, ali!

Wow! That is an awesome except...really gave me something to think about. I've shared it with all of my family & friends. Thanks for sharing...what an inspiration!

Have mercy!!! That whole passage gave me enough quotes for the month of January! Thank you for sharing and that was something I really needed and enjoyed reading. Simply awesome.
By the way, those stamps are rather snazzy!

Ali - Thank you for posting this - it helps remind me that pursing my passion, my masters degree and working like a crazy person is all worth it if I allow myself to appreciate and recognize the blessings I have been given. I want to remember this every day - even more I want to live this every day.
Thank you Ali and thank you Anna Quindlen!

Thank you for posting this, Ali! I love it and I love Anna Quindlen! All of her words are so true. Why is it that we forget that as we go about living from day to day? Thanks for the reminder and for being cool, too! :)

Ali (and Anna) thank you so much for posting this. I was driving to work this morning thinking about how I want my life to look in the next year...what a perfect excerpt to go a long with my thoughts of the morning. Thanks.

Did I mention Ada has a fuzzy butt and I have the pictures to prove it? Great post, another book for my list.

Ali, sempre, sempre, sempre (=always, always, always) YOU inspire via your sharings of inspirational readings, your artwork, your life veins. You succeed to reach others in a positive and motivational mode that make us reach out and stretch ourselves to think about values of importance, freedom to create, and how to live a better and simpler life.
You truly "Dee-light" me and as ever, I find you a remarkable young woman. It has been my pleasure to come to know you as a friend, albeit from afar.
Wishing you a blessed, happy, and simple New Year.
Ciao,
Dee

yes, she is cool.
kip

Thanks for sharing this. I was just writing in my weblog about so many of these very things. I want to make some changes this next year and this really spoke to me.

Amazing. Thank you for sharing it. I think I may need to get this to keep it cloes and remember it.

Ali- you are just too darn cool too! Thanks so much for sharing this at a time when a lot of us reexamine our lives every year. You always find the coolest quotes that give me so much inspiration.
Thanks and peace to you!

Sweet.

WOW, thanks for sharing :) and thanks for the inspiration.....
I will print it out and read it often.
Cindy :)

what a great post.Thanks for sharing it - that is the coolest thing i ever read. "inspired to live life as if terminally ill" this concept gave me chills and a kick in the pants...
love it. love it.

oh my dear...you have NO idea how much I needed to hear this.
thank you, thank you, thank you!
YOU are the best, love ya, girl!
R

I needed this, Thanks for giving me this for New Years..

Oh man Ali, did you sneak onto my private blog (the one I use as a journal just for things of my hear)? These are the answers to the questions I have been debating with myself. Thanks for sharing.
Kim

YES!
Amen!
Right On!
Can I get a whoop-whoop?
Peace be with you!