Celebration | Tyra Garlington

Once Upon a Time 100 Years Ago

Posted on November 20, 2018 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“World War I is among the least documented wars of those covered by the Veterans History Project, and the number of collections relating its experiences is not likely to grow dramatically. Because all but a handful of WWI vets are no longer alive, oral history interviews are out of the question, so we must rely on the generosity of relatives and friends of deceased veterans to donate written accounts in letters, diaries, and memoirs, as well as precious collections of photographs. Every veteran has his or her own war, and each is the custodian of a unique story and memories. [1] ……
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About the Precious Little Time, You Have Left

Posted on November 3, 2018 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

A Good Girl (Who Didn’t Make It) “Alyssa was my best friend. She was a talented musician, a graceful gymnast, a brilliant writer, and a deeply passionate human being. She cared about people. Love bled from every facet of her being. When she spoke, her eyes were as sincere as her words. And she always wanted to understand what was wrong so she could strive to make it better. But Alyssa woke up one day during her senior year in college with a strange pain in her chest. The on-campus doctors didn’t understand why, so they referred her to a……
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The easy things aren’t always the right things.

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“When I was in elementary school my parents told me, it didn’t matter what I did when I grew up, so long as it made me happy. “Happiness is the whole point of life”, my father said. “But it doesn’t always come easy. Your mother loves to help people in need, so she became a psychiatric nurse. I love reading, writing, and poetry, so I became an English teacher. We both find happiness in the hard work we do each day.” A few years later when I was in junior high, my sixth-grade homeroom teacher put me in detention for……
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I never would have made it without you!

Posted on October 2, 2018 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Someone once said, “Tyra what would you do if you knew you could not fail?” I said I would make my impossible dreams possible. First, I would create a virtual, global community of intergenerational women, and those who love them, who are fearsome and generous, humble and honest, in pursuit of possibilities and purpose. A place to come together and create beautifully rendered intimate moments. Because of you, this impossible dream came true. The Frankly Speaking with Tyra G radio show launched in September 2017. Happy First Year Anniversary! I never would have made it without you. Every week, we……
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On the other side of through … finally.

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

I wrote these words after I learned that revelation comes in retrospect. May you find promise in the process… life is a journey, not an event. BEFORE WE WERE STRANGERS We finished each other’s sentences. We called holding hands “quality time”. Our silence was a loving pregnancy. We started and ended our days with cuddles. We saw each other in each other’s eyes. We sang in harmony. We fought for equality and justice. We fought for joy and hope. We fought for us. And then we didn’t. I did not know how to spell goodbye. I did not know I could live beyond……
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Are you a closet “creative”?

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Elizabeth Gilbert’s name is synonymous with her fantastically bestselling memoir, Eat Pray Love. Eat Pray Love was borne of a moment of total collapse in her life. And you can call it “chick lit,” but it’s inspired millions to move forward with their lives, differently. Through the disorienting process of becoming a global celebrity, Elizabeth Gilbert has reflected deeply on the gift and challenge of creativity. She defines creativity, in life as in art, as choosing the path of curiosity over the path of fear. This has resonance for our common life too. And, she says, it’s not to be confused with……
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Would you believe Maria Shriver’s mirror has cracks?

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Maria Shriver’s life is often summarized in fairy tale terms. A child of the Kennedy clan in the Camelot aura of the early 1960s. Daughter of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics, and Sargent Shriver, who founded the Peace Corps. An esteemed broadcast journalist. First lady of California. She opened up with Krista Tippett during a conversation on her show, On Being, about having a personal history that is also public history — and the ordinariness that is her life and any life, however glamorous on the outside. We experience the toughness for which the women in Maria……
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Wondrous Magical Times

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“The child held to her daddy’s hand. She stood upon his feet, and as they danced to the music, their closeness was complete. Excitedly, the little girl would wait for her daddy to speak, and as she danced in his footsteps, he knew one day another’s love she would seek. Time whirled her far from her daddy’s footsteps, into lost dreams of a magic time, void of knights and steeds and damsels saved and music filled with rhyme. Old daddy wiped away his daughter’s tears of sadness and then the tears of strife, and then held to his child’s hand,……
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WANT TO KNOW A SECRET?

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

I had to share this! “Text me when you get home. Usually, it’s late when women say this to each other, the end of a night that at some point felt thrilling. We might have been at dinner, a concert or a cocktail bar. We might have been just hanging out talking even though we knew we’d be tired the next day. Men do not tell their friends to text them when they get home. Some guy somewhere must have been worried about his buddy finding his way back okay at the end of a night, but he probably just said,……
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It’s Spring! Be imperfectly perfect.

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“Practice makes perfect.” Does this phrase, although uttered quite frequently in our society, have any truth behind it? How much practice, in fact, does it take to become “perfect”? What even is “perfect”? We have come to believe, through the influence of media, that perfect is attainable; it is something we can reach if we would just be “better”. In reality, perfection is having no flaws, and I don’t know about you, but I don’t think that is remotely possible. How to fix this? Well, first you have to find who you are. Whoa! That was pretty deep, wasn’t it?……
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