Tomorrow morning I am leaving for my annual Burning Man adventure (this year makes 9 in a row!) Here is my special prayer/intention for my experience...

Dear God/Goddess/Spirit/Higher Power:

I give my Burning Man 2005 experience to you....I am tired of being blocked on my book project...I am tried of being too scared to move forward with it....I am tired of letting my self-dobut and self-disgust dominate this part of my life.

I want to feel as free and inspired and full of joy as I did when you first called me to start skipping. Thank you for how you are speaking to me and for how I know deep in my heart that documenting my journey in writiing is what you are asking me to do with my life. What a blessing that I can hear your instructions so clearly.

Even though I know it doesn't help, I have been extremely disappointed in myself for being too afraid to manifest my dream. I recognize my childlike will that is digging in her heels and wanting to stay right where she is. That part of me is terrified of fully putting herself out there again. I give that part of me to you. Please fill my being with so much passion and inspiration that my story effortlessly flows out onto the page. Wake me up in the middle of the night so excited about my project that I can't help but get up and write, write, write!

Let every breath I take and every step I make out there in the beautiful desert be a powerful prayer to you. Melt me. Mold me. Fil me. Use me.

With love, gratitude, and enthusiastic anticipation...

Skipper Kim

One of the most rewarding parts about having the iskip.com website are all of the amazing kindred spirits I have met throughout my skipping adventure. One such person is a man named Daniel Decker who has an amazing website called The Gift Of Kindness. His initative is devoted to encouraging people, from all walks of life, to develop habits of kindness and compassion toward their fellow man.

The coolest thing about Daniel is that he completely walks (or skips?) his talk...This week he gave the skipping movement an incredible gift of kindness. He took the video tapes I have from a couple of the TV interviews I did back in 2000 when the skipping movement was starting to sweep the nation.

If you have a high speed connection on a PC, you can now watch clips of a great piece that KVOR-TV in Sacramento, CA did on the skipping movement. You also can watch yours truly skipping with Donny Osmond on national TV! Check it out!

Also be sure to check out Daniel's website. It's sure to bring a smile to your face and to put an extra skip in your step! Give a gift of kindess today....It's worth more than money can buy.

I apologize for letting so much time skip by between entries. It seems that life is moving extraordinarily quickly these days.

I had to do a quick post after I read about the nun who was reprimanded for dancing wildly at World Youth Day in Germany. I loved the picture of the nun busting a move with a young missionary!

The story reminded me of my previous post about my experience skipping with a nun while working a trade show in the Midwest. The skipping nun's superiors asked that I not post the picture that was taken of us skipping on the web. At first I didn't understand why...But now I wonder if they were nervous about the potential for national media!

I have great respect for women who dedicate their lives to service....I will pray for the day that the holy spirit can move freely enough within them that dancing and skipping become a perfectly acceptable thing for them to do! After all, both dancing and skipping are glorious ways to celebrate life!

Keep the emails and comments coming. It makes my day to get emails like this one from a 13-year-old skipper named Kristi...

I skip therefore I am. Or do I? Oh yes... yes, I defintely skip. I also leap and bound. My sister also is a spinning enthusiast but this unfortunately makes me much too dizzy... ugh. Oh well. It isn't exactly the skipping aditude to get too worked up about things, is it? After all, us skippers are the sorta people that sing in public. :-)

Funny that you should mention spinning, Kristi...The other day I was playing a very casual game of volleyball with some friends and I started spinning around in a circle while the server on the other side ran after the ball. I spun and I spun until I was so dizzy I could hardly see!

Unfortunately, the server got the ball and hit it over to our side just as I stopped spinning! Happily my team mates are also fun loving spirits because I was so dizzy that I missed the ball. They didn't get mad...Instead they said, "What's next Kim, are you going to make a website called ispin.com!?" Skip on! Spin on!

Last weekend I got a message on the skipper phone from a skipper who lives in Northern California. He left me a message saying he is a 14-year-old sophomore who loves to skip. So much so that one day he skipped throughout the halls of Amador High School singing John Lennon's Imagine and handing out little peace signs!

I loved hearing his story....I love to imagine a world where every community has one bright light like this skipper who finds joy through spreading a message of peace and love! Skipping is such a powerful way to add positive energy to the world around you.

Gandhi said, "We must be the change we wish to see in the world." I believe with all of my heart that when we can find the courage and inner strength to skip through life, we are being the kind of change our world desperately needs. Skip on!

This is pretty cool. I recently was contacted by a woman named Gina Goff who was writing a piece for City Search about unique places to workout in San Francisco. She had discovered iskip in her research and was inspired about including it in her write-up. The only problem was that I'm not currently leading regular skips in the city. So there wasn't a location for her to link skipping to.

Gina was determined to let people know that there are skippers in San Francisco. So she went ahead and added us as a fun way to workout in Golden Gate Park. (When I do lead group skips, that's where it happens!) We couldn't get prime placement in the article since we aren't tied to a gym, but she put us at the tip top of the "More Spots to Work Out" section. Pretty cool. Skip on, Gina!! :-)

The other night I worked late so didn't feel like going to the gym on the way home. I told myself I'd go out for a long walk/skip....But before I knew it most of the evening had skipped away from me.

I decided to order take out Sushi from a restaurant that is several blocks from my apartment so I could pick up dinner AND get a little exercise. I put on a pair of sweatpants and put my credit card in my pocket....and then I decided to wear something else...Only I forgot to take my card out of the pocket!

I walked all the way to the restaurant before I realized that my credit card was still at home in my sweat pants! I had to go all the way home and back again! I laughed as I realized that I was getting a good workout after all! I skipped all the way back to my apartment.

It feels so great to skip freely down the sidewalk...One guy that I passed smiled widely and said, "I see you...Skipping along...Skipping along!" I skipped by my local video store and waved to the guy behind the counter. I thought about the email I had just gotten from Donna about how she couldn't help but skip because she was enjoying the sky and the sun. I skipped by the cable car on Powell Street and felt incredibly lucky to live in a city as magical as San Francisco.

By the time I got home with my Sushi, I felt great! Skipping rocks my world.

Just got this email from a kindred skipping spirit and wanted to share...

I am a skipper and was just introduced to your website! I was skipping out at the Bayshore in Palo Alto last week, much to the humor of passersby. But I was enjoying the sun and blue sky, the birds and the wind and the bay, so skipping was required! Plus it's such a great workout! - Donna

Skip on Donna! Like you, I love how skipping throws us into the moment and helps us appreciate the simpler things....It's hard to be stressed about bills or problems when you are gleefully bounding down the street!!

Skipping burns twice as many calories as walking does...So for you walkers out there, try skipping a block every now and then and you will get a double bang for your caloric buck.

If you are someone who loves to skip, I'd love to hear from you! Write to me at kimskips@peoplepc.com and tellme your skipping story! Skip on!