365 Days of Impacts

Jewelry Lia Made for me Another piece of Jewelry Lia made me. Lia Palladino. That was her name when I came to my first day of work. She was my boss at my first job out of college. She was an art director and I was a mac artist. Lia was beautiful - she was waifish and had the most beautiful long wavy cinnamon colored hair. Lia was Italian and Swedish. Her artistic senses were off the chain. I looked up to her in so many ways. She wasn't that much older than me, but she was definitely someone that I idolized. Lia was very kind, she loved animals, she was not only a wonderful graphic artist, but she was also great at anything creative including sculpture, painting, jewelry making. At first I was intimidated by her, but her kindness made me realize that she was someone who would encourage me in so many ways to believe in myself and my abilities. What would happen next was a friendship that would last until Lia VanAbel left this earth. I was her friend through her r...

I don't read a lot - and it is kind of a joke in our house. Dennis didn't know me in my 20s. Back then, I was going through a LOT of soul searching, self awareness seeking, higher power investigation. I read a LOT of self help books when I was in my 20s. I've never really had an affinity for fiction, I'm much more of a non-fiction girl. I want to read about things that I will learn from, like historical biographies, true stories of success, self help or motivational books. When I was in my 20s, I had a friend who turned me on to a book called Many Lives, Many Masters. Her name was LIa VanAbel. Lia was the reason I read this book - she convinced me that it would change my perceptions. This book literally changed my life. The description of the book: As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonnished and skpetical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recuurrring nibhtmares and anxiety attack...