Welcome to With Glowing Hearts


Welcome to our With Glowing Hearts blog

This blog has been created as a place to capture the essence of the Olympic Spirit and, through shared insights, attempt to discover what exactly happened during those days of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Paralympics.

Many of us experienced a warm and fuzzy feeling of joy and happiness as our hearts swelled with pride, while others were moved to spontaneously break out into an inspired version “Oh Canada”. Canadian flags and red & white were everywhere. Everyone was smiling and felt a sense of unity with one another unlike anything experienced before.

What exactly happened? Were we all undergoing some kind euphoric mind alteration… or perhaps it was a few too many “brewskies” or too much fresh air, as people swarmed the streets of Vancouver from dawn til dusk and well into the night?

What was “it” that actually happened?

That is what I hope to discover…together with your input. I invite Olympic atheletes, volunteers, torch bearers, international tourists, Canadians, Aboriginals and Vancouverites - whether you watched and felt the Olympics at home or were physically in Vancouver - to share your experiences, insights and thoughts about your Olympic experience. Share your stories and encounters…peak moments, reflective thoughts ... anything that will help give a coherent expression to the magic and energy that we all felt (and hopefully are still feeling ) during this time.

So hopefully… we can do “it” again and we can hang on to “it” and use “it” to make a better world. Hopefully… our “Glowing Hearts” will continue to glow and spread love and happiness into our world.

In addition to your very appreciated input, we are hoping to discover the many other elements that were a part of the Olympic games both seen and unseen; noticed and unnoticed that played a contributory role in this. We will explore the unique expression of the human spirit; our connectedness to each other and the other nations; the overwhelming sense of good will and peace that pervaded the games…”the energy”. We will delve deep into the symbology that was used to symbolize Canada but also create a sense of magic and wonder such as the giant polar bear or Aurora Borealis in the Opening Ceremonies.

Below are some questions to start you off. Feel free to use the questions as a guide to help direct your thoughts or just “wing it” and write whatever comes to mind.

My intent is to form all of this into a book. If you prefer to write to me directly about your experiences, please contact me at sue@suestudios.com.

Please email me photos of homes decorated in red and white that we can post on this blog!! Let's see how Canada celebrated their Olympic Spirit. See photos collected so far.

Thank you.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Change since the Olympics

What has changed for you since the Olympics?

Things have changed in subtle ways in me. I feel much more a sense of community with Canada. The words to our national anthem have taken a whole new meaning ..."with glowing hearts we see thee rise".... my heart continues to shine and feel that Olympic spirit within me.

Whenever I am faced by challenges in my own life, I remember the inspirational words of the athletes who overcame their own challenges to  reach their goals. I have an "I can do it too" attitude. I have had this idea for the book. Throughout the Olympics I kept saying, somoene should write a book, this book has to be written. Then it dawned on me that I could write it, why not me??

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