Posts Tagged ‘ Pure Soapbox ’

Life Takes… Love

Aug 3rd, 2010 | By erin | Category: Uncategorized, bRILLIANT Blog

The Bigger Picture with Kimberlie Dykeman:

“If you just blow a little love into it, it’ll fly right up into the stratosphere.” - Steven Tyler, musical performer

So, you’ve mixed up a recipe …but it tastes like something’s missing. You fuss ‘til you ruin it, lure someone else to fix, pitch it [...]



The Opus of Purpose

Jul 15th, 2010 | By erin | Category: Uncategorized, bRILLIANT Blog

The Bigger Picture with Kimberlie Dykeman
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
~ Maya Angelou
With great anticipation, yet transient restraint, I have listened and honored the lingering under-conversation in my pea-pod brain. And the results rouse a recurring mission to depict and entertain with humor; to prompt [...]



Picture Box Perspective

Jun 23rd, 2010 | By erin | Category: bRILLIANT Blog

The Bigger Picture with Kimberlie Dykeman:
“The whole life lies in the verb seeing.” ~Teilhard de Chardin

It all comes down to one fabulously, all-encompassing word: Perspective. Sometimes a tunnel view of life can prove to be overwhelming, and yet dangerously boring. The old adage of not seeing the forest for the trees [...]



The Principles of Polarity

Jun 1st, 2010 | By erin | Category: bRILLIANT Blog

The Bigger Picture with Kimberlie Dykeman:
Try as we may, our status-obsessed, competition-hungry society lures us to acquiesce to judge and further dole out rampant titles, labels and assumptions. Like children, we find pleasure in comparing things and compartmentalizing, for it helps us define our own identities and positions… in some odd way. But, good [...]



Inertia’s Solution

May 13th, 2010 | By erin | Category: Uncategorized, bRILLIANT Blog

The Bigger Picture with Kimberlie Dykeman
I am certain many of you grew up watching the Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang, and each quirky, endearing character resonated with your own inner character at random times as they dealt with L-I-F-E. What’s funny about this wonderfully simplistic look at life is that there never seemed to [...]



The Immeasurable Impact of ONE

Apr 21st, 2010 | By erin | Category: Uncategorized, bRILLIANT Blog

The Bigger Picture with Kimberlie Dykeman
[Editorial Note: It gives me great pleasure to introduce the enlightened Kimberlie Dykeman: author, speaker, and television personality, who will share her ongoing insight on the Brilliant Social Network of blogs. We hope you enjoy her as much as we do… Lance Avery Morgan, Publisher/Editorial Director]
In a time when [...]