A Radical Homemaker Celebrates 40

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March 30, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. - Ralph Waldo Emerson - A Radical Homemaker Celebrates 40 Shannon Hayes, mother and homemaker on a family farm, used to spend birthdays mourning the passing of another year. But on her 40th she decides instead to spend the day in celebration and joy by giving herself an important gift. In this touching piece, Shannon shares how she learned that turning 40 meant being "grown-up enough, confident enough, fearless enough to face my deepest, most secret dreams and bring them out into the world," and embracing "all those forces that seemingly work against those dreams, those burdens I have chosen by the act of living and surrendering myself to those that I love." { read more } Be The Change How can you take a moment you usually dread and turn it in to a reason to celebrate? COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News No Greater Joy: Photos from Around the World How to Change When Change Is Hard The One Thing They Carried With Them The Beautiful Fragility of Language The College Course That's Changing Lives Building A Regret Free Life 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 144,245 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More