Last night I attended “4th Annual Making the Most of Your Personal Strategy New Year Kickoff” event where a group of women got together and each of us created a vision board for 2010. This event was hosted by Ms.Angie Swartz, a founder of Six Figure Moms Club. She is a radio show host, an author, and a social media specialist who owns her own company called “Square Martini Media”. Moreover, she is also a source of inspiration to many of us working women and mothers. At the 
beginning of the event, she asked who had attended this event last year, the year before….and I realized that this was my 4th time attending this event. She again hired Dining Details to cater the food for the evening – the owners and chef couple Julie and Robbie cooked scrumptious appetizers and desserts while we enjoyed sipping wine, chatted among ourselves, flipped through magazines and cut out images that spoke to us for our vision board. It was a fantastic opportunity for us to connect, and take time to think about what we wanted to focus on this year. (more…)
鎌倉時代の僧、道元（曹洞宗の開祖）の「正法眼蔵」という書物の中に、「霧の中を歩めば覚えざるに衣湿る」という言葉があります。薄い霧の中を歩いていくうちに、いつのまにか衣は水気を含んで、気がつくとじっくりと湿っているという様子を示す言葉で、その意味するところ
は「人間は知らず知らずのうちに周りに影響されるのだから、自分の身を置く環境を選ぶことが大事である」ということです。お子さんを持つ方、特に日本人は、この言葉を聞いて「やはりいい学校に入れなければ」と思う方もいらっしゃるでしょう。もちろん、学校をはじめ、お子さんがいる地域や周りの人々、友人との関係が大事なことは言うまでもありません。
