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Expiration Dates Keep Life and Ideas Fresh
It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas. ~Alan Alda When my friend’s husband died, I wanted to do something helpful and useful, so I cleaned out her refrigerator. We […]
Read MoreLiving Beyond Balance
“I don’t like the word ‘balance.’ To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family… as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration… of work, family, self, community.” Padmasree Warrior Balance is necessary in so many places, isn’t it? I’ve been […]
Read MoreLoving People Between Victory and Defeat
“At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn’t celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now compared with that time.” ~Helen Mirren A baby rolls over and there is rejoicing. Crawling gives way to the first step, it’s a celebration. […]
Read MoreGoing with the Flow offers a Better Life
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu The thought of not having a manicured yard never crossed my mind. I’d watched my daddy spend lots of time trying to […]
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The Plight of Outsiders
“If you’ve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays with you.”― Tim Burton Feelings aren’t facts, that’s true, but man oh man can feelings be our reality. You’ve hit your thumb with the hammer […]
Read MoreSnipping Strings that Seek to Control
“Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday, you will be a real boy.” ~The Blue Fairy, Pinnochio Do these sound like things you’ve heard, or possibly said: If you do ___ for me, I’ll do this for you. I did _____, but they didn’t do anything for me. People, including ourselves, have unfair expectations sometimes, […]
Read MoreThe Difference Our Sight can Make
“If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life’s exciting variety, not something to fear.” ― Gene Roddenberry Space, the final frontier…so many afternoons began with […]
Read MoreWant a Better World? Raise Your Voice!
“ Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes—goodwill among men and peace on earth.” ~ Albert Einstein It’s hard to imagine what it would have been like to be Albert Einstein, to discover a theory that […]
Read MoreHave We Found Freedom?
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. ~Pearl S. Buck If you’ve walked everywhere all your life, you can’t appreciate the longing a person in a wheelchair must have to share in your freedom. If you’ve been able to […]
Read MoreAppreciating their presence
This was originally posted in December 2014. Thought it worth sharing for the holidays. “I wear the chain I forged in life….I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” ― Jacob Marley’s ghost; Charles Dickens, […]
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Thoughts to Encourage
Nothing helps like a good nap…
Birds are Beautiful
A Dog is Faithful…
