laurel holloman - Dec Issue of Diva Magazine

I love Laurel Holloman, who is best known for playing Tina Kennard in the groundbreaking series, The L Word for many reasons. I admire her character, her charity work and open heart and her artistic talent and creativity. She is a “celebrity” that I actually feel good about admiring and consider an inspiring role model. Some beautiful pictures along with an insightful interview with her appear in the December issue of the UK based, Diva magazine which I I downloaded on my iPad to read last night. The entire article was delicious but my absolute favorite passage from her is quoted below as it speaks to me of a place I am trying to get to myself. Thanks for that Laurel Holloman.

Every day I strive to get to a place where I’m not affected by the external world, and I don’t use the external world to define or tell me who I am. I strive for a state of equanimity and calm and a state of grace, so I can be free of definitions. If you are free, then you can create beautiful things. It’s really just shutting out the noise.